Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Rosellas wandering around looking for flower seeds at Arthurs Seat, Mornington Peninsula
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Ruby Tuesday prompt
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These birds are a common sight on the Mornington Peninsula. They seem as much at home walking in grasses as flying to trees to have a good social chatter! When they dart in and out of trees, the flash of colour is quite magical!
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A flash of rubies on the wing
Is like
A gleaming spark of passion
Longing
To sing
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AUSTRALIA ~ The Antipodes
I love a sunburnt country / A land of sweeping plains / Of ragged mountain ranges / Of droughts and flooding rains / I love her far horizons / I love her jewel-sea / Her beauty and her terror / The wide brown land for me / ~ Dorothea Mackellar (1885-1968)
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Ruby Birds
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27 comments:
very beautiful birds! I love the colors..they look so cute...
Coming here from Today's flowers, I could see beautiful photos and poesy
These can't be real! :O) Unbelievable colors-- 'a flash of rubies on the wing' I always enjoy reading your posts.
Have a lovely week!
great collage of this bird!
Hello was to see your blog liked much of what I saw and return vizitar you for your passage
Oh these are lovely creatures. Send some this way, would you? I have not seen these either in person or in print until you featured them. So very colorful and attractive.
Amazing colors, well done.
What a beautiful bird you get to enjoy, so exotic and tropical like. Birds are such wonderful creatures to observe, as I was getting my bum chewed out today by three Jenny Wrens, a Mother and her brood I'm sure, but for a bird only 3 inches tall, they certainly told me and Scratchy who the boss was.
sharon
I agree with Noni - those are beautiful, amazing birds. We just don't get birds of that rich color in So Calif. I like the way you match text colors to the theme. Thank you for your visits to both my blogs & I think it's great to be able to see what's going on all the way in Australia - daily - next best thing to being there.
PS - terrific poem too.
a perfect ruby post!
Your rubies on the wing is a delight to the eye, Gemma!
I cannot imagine what it must be like to live in a place where birds like this are wild. What beauty surrounds you...I am envious. Thank you for sharing.
This bird must be a beautiful sight wearing such a colourful garb. Lovely.
What a beautiful bird! Lovely collage!
Amazing colors on those birds! Beautiful collage.
What a gorgeous bird in the predominate scarlet, The blue gray looks perfect when set against the red...
Aren't they gorgeous! I've never seen one before -- never even heard of them! Thanks for the introduction! Lovely little rubies indeed!
Colorful birds is one thing I wish we had more of.
Hi, Gemma
These birds are very beautiful Rosellas, great contribution to Ruby.
hugs, Denise
The Rosellas are very beautiful and colorful birds with such a pretty name. I would love to have a few in my garden. It would be "magical" to see them flying about. Wonderful RT post - both collage and poem!
brilliant colouring
Wow, those are beautiful. Great shots!
- Mojo
What beautiful birds - blue and red together makes them gorgeous!
wonderful collage!
What beautifully colored bird to have around. We don't have anything like that here in NY state (US). Love the collage too..
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