We spent an enjoyable day at the park - it is a very good place to learn about the flora and fauna of the Australian Outback. All the birds in the falconry show are raptors we see regularly in the wild.
 blackbreasedbuzzard03.jpg 29.33 Kb 315 x 195 Black Breasted Buzzard. After a prolonged strike, this young female finally decided to show up and do her thing - they instinctively know to drop rocks on Emu eggs to get at the insides. |
 blackbreastedbuzzard01.jpg 3844 bytes 220 x 146 Black Breasted Buzzard. Her breast isn't black yet as she's too young. |
 blackbreastedbuzzard02.jpg 5.86 Kb 217 x 186 Black Breasted Buzzard. |
 blackkite01.jpg 6.67 Kb 268 x 194 The next few pictures are of Black Kites, an extremely common raptor in the area. |
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 blackkite06.jpg 47.19 Kb 445 x 466 One of the Black Kite's abilities is to snatch dinner off the ground, then transfer it from it's talons to it's mouth while in flight. |
 wedgetaileagle01.jpg 93.73 Kb 482 x 401 A Wedge-Tailed Eagle. Australia's largest bird. I was unable to get a good picture of this one in flight. |
 greycrownedbabblers.jpg 41.19 Kb 348 x 278 Grey-crowned Babblers. These birds make very strange noises, like monkeys or kittens, but their calls always make me smile. I find their noise quite humorous. |
 flynnsgrave01.jpg 102.09 Kb 556 x 480 After about 4 hours, we finally left the Desert Park and went down the road slightly to Flynn's Grave. Flynn started the Flying Doctors. |
 flynnsgrave02.jpg 91.02 Kb 640 x 426 Flynn's Grave. We found out later that just a day earlier, the "Devils Marble" that had topped this grave had been removed for return to Aboriginal lands, and replaced with a similar but non-Marble stone. |
 flynnsgrave04.jpg 81.29 Kb 320 x 480 A ghost gum along a river course near Flynn's Grave. |
 flynnsgrave05.jpg 122.48 Kb 640 x 426 The watercourse near Flynn's Grave. |
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