GOLF COURSE BIRDS

You go on 'ya business of progressing incrementally a golf ball around our wonderful course. You observe reservedly and in your fashion the golf etiquette, you observe and implement the rules from the "Royal and Ancient", and then you observe where your fellow players ball has disappeared to, always observing genuine grief for the persons predicament.

But do you observe the wild life, I refer mainly to the bird families that inhabit our paddocks. If you haven't let me name a few:

You have your Plovers, the Butcher Birds, the Noisy Minors, the Magpies, Currawongs, Tullawongs whatever, Crested Doves (Pigeon), Water Fowl, Black Ducks, the Wood Duck, Spoon Bill, Long Necked Heron, Ibis, Egret, Corella, the Cormorant, Shag (I wish), Crows, Galah, you got your Rainbow Lorikeet, an occasional Pelican, Welcome Swallows, Willie Wagtails, Honey eaters, Heron, the not so local but more than welcome Geese, the little Greebe, (you will see them on the 12th and 13th ponds). Mountain Lorries come and visit, you got your Pee Wees, rarely seen but often heard the OOPOO bird, and no doubt there will occasional nomadic visitors, and then the little fellow that makes a hole in the bunkers.

There used to be hundreds of little yellow finches, they would roll like a wave as you walked up the 10th. All gone now, bugger.

So here are some pictures, know some more birds, eMail me, johnfarls@bigpond.com

Our resident Water Hens have produced a little brood of black fluffy chicks, doing well so far. Late news; 2 of the little fellas' are missing.

Mother and Father Goose, supposedly, she has been residing on the 11th island and is sitting on eggs we think. The male will "conk" out and she will swim ashore to have a feed. Father Goose will stand 'shotgun' and reserve his rights to protect her, will she lay the Golden Egg?

This is the public gallery that followed me up the 4th, lost interest, shat and moved on.