Our great southern migration

       This blog is in honor/honour of the females that are brown or faded green while their mates are colorful/colourful! Many of these birds are not readily recognizable! I have now downloaded but not yet sorted my Korea pics so didn't want to wait on those. Hopefully this weekend! Note: these could be juvenile males; they look like the females. But we are going with these are females.  The image above is a golden whistler. It does whistle but isn't very golden. You can see the male on J is for jellyfish. This little lady (pretty sure she is a lady) is a female scarlet robin. Looks brown and orange to me! Her mate was on the  Gang's all here The female fairy wrens are great at incognito. They could be superb or variegated. In some instances, I swear they are red-browed fire tail finches. However, those juveniles are all brown and don't have red eye patches. The fairy wren boys come in various blue shades. See More fairy tails . The females are bolder...

  We just returned from sitting with Cilla the cat in Canberra. That gave us a chance to visit Scott's cousin Libby at the Canberra track. I am cheating with the picture above as that was at the Moruya track but I missed getting a pic at Canberra. She trains racehorses and lives on the backside of the Canberra track. We got to see their stable, her flat, her Mum and their puppies. No pics of pups either so you get one of Cilla. Cilla enjoyed my shoes and hiding in the bushes to "scare" passers by.  While in Canberra, we made it to Floriade , a big tulip festival in Canberra.  While there, we went to the National Museum of Australia.   We did manage light rail and walking in Canberra as we didn't want to try and drive and park in the city center. We also made it to the Botanic garden and saw Gang-Gangs! The male gang-gang cockatoo is much more striking than the female. We saw these when on the family farm in Nerriga but not in this area. The Canberra bird site ha...