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hurricanecarol

Random photos from yesterday

Mar 28, 2010 06:20

Here's a compilation of yesterday's photos...most are from Lettuce Lake Park. There was a scarcity of interesting critters, but there was this woman taking her cockatoo out for a stroll:

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nature walk, house

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imafarmgirl March 28 2010, 11:44:55 UTC

As always, I love your photos. You take such good ones that sometimes I can see them like the close ups of the pretty birdy.

hurricanecarol March 29 2010, 09:21:18 UTC

Thanks so much! I think I am going to work on a compilation of extreme close ups with enough contrast in them for you to be able to see and enjoy. I seem to have a lot of trouble getting things out in words these days, so I post pictures instead. One of these days I need to abandon facebook and come back here more often. The thing about facebook is that it doesn't require (or allow) a whole lot of words, so when my health took a nosedive over Christmas, I got sort of addicted to it. No deep thought required and, at the time, I needed to avoid deep thought like the plague. Now that I'm feeling a little better, I need to crawl out of my hermit-hole!

imafarmgirl March 29 2010, 09:33:02 UTC

Yeah quit it with the facebook and get back over here! lol. You can friend me over there if you want. Sarah Gales if that is how you look me up. I'm confused as to friending on facebook. I'm trying to write more there because my family is on it. However, it's almost not worth friending me, you'll never see anything from me like you do on LJ.

hurricanecarol April 12 2010, 10:18:15 UTC

Sarah, I tried to find you over on facebook, but there are a bunch of Sarah Gales. I'm not sure which one is you. Can you send me a link to your profile?

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ghymoreids_mum March 28 2010, 22:54:07 UTC

do you know what sort of cockatoo it is? it looks like a Major Mitchell, but the crest is wrong.
http://www.ozanimals.com/Bird/Major-Mitchell%27s-Cockatoo/Cacatua/leadbeateri.html

fantastic, as usual.

hurricanecarol March 29 2010, 09:11:06 UTC

The woman said she was a moluccan, but the hubby thought it was a Major Mitchell at first too, and someone on my facebook commented that it looked like some kind of hybrid between a moluccan and a sulphur-crested!

ghymoreids_mum March 29 2010, 10:13:08 UTC

sulfur cresteds are blinding white, though I have seen a pink flock. [blasted galahs!] our cockatoos have a little 'up-flip' at the back of the head when the crest is down
I've never heard of a moluccan until now.

whatever, he's utterly gorgeous. I hope she knows what she's in for though.

hurricanecarol March 29 2010, 10:23:32 UTC

She told me she had lots of furry and feathered friends so I think she is experienced with birds. I know what you mean though...a cockatoo is definitely NOT for first time bird "owners"...and I put that word in quotes for two reasons...one, I don't like the term ownership when it comes to animals, but am too brain-dead to think of a substitute word - lol! And two, because you couldn't "own" a cockatoo even if you wanted to. It simply wouldn't allow it. I'll never forget reading about a first timer who had a cockatoo that adored her...one time her husband walked too close when she had the bird on her shoulder. It startled the bird which promptly spun around and broke the woman's nose!

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