We have recently returned from a holiday in Perth and SW W.A. I am
always surprised at how few birds we find in places where we think
that there should be many. King's Park has absolutely wonderful wild
flowers, in the bush, 3 sorts of donkey orchids, at least 2 sorts of
spider orchids as well as kangaroo paws and flowering shrubs; and in
the cultivated wild flower gardens there are many wonderful flowers.
But there are very few birds. Red wattle birds are the exception.
They are everywhere.
However, the ospreys are nesting again at Devil's Elbow, Peppermint
Grove. They are in the same dead tree as they have been in, the last
couple of years. It hangs over the river. It looks as if it will
collapse into the water any time. Two birds were present. There was
also one osprey perched at the top of a Norfolk Island pine, near
Cottesloe beach
Around Mount's bay Road there are many nesting cormorants and darters.
If you want to see wild flowers in abundance, go to Cranbrook and Mt.
Barker, particularly to the Banksia Farm at Mt Barker. The man in
charge there can tell you exactly where to go to find an abundance of
orchids and he has put markers, saying just what they are, on many.
Unfortunately it was raining while we were there, but at least wild
flowers stay still. Also he can tell you a lot about banksias.
Further south, around Denmark, we saw beautiful blue splendid fairy
wrens, and western spinebills which are exceptionally handsome little
birds, somewhat smaller than the eastern spinebills. Red-capped and
elegant parrots and both Baudin's and Carnaby's Black-Cockatoos, the
latter said to be endangered were seen in that area. On wind swept
Cape Leuwin we saw a pipit.
Elizabeth
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