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At a busy dam on Carol's property near Glen Davis. I was transfixed by the numbers of birds visiting this dam and spent a few hours sitting there with the others for an evening, and then alone the next morning.
The extra brilliance of the lorikeet was due to the flash. Unfortunately in this light it was either flash or nothing, so ... flash.
Looking towards Capertee from the summit of Airlie Turret.
My old mate Rod Crane from Cullen Bullen and I drove up to the top of this mountain in his Nissan 4WD. I've done a lot of 4WD'ing but never seen anything like this track. Here's a link to some photos of the track up the mountain from a 4WD Club expedition.
A bogie bird as far as photography goes. This is probably the best so far, but way short of being detailed enough for a print. Still beautiful with spectacular colouring.
My others...
Despite some good views ... didn't manage to get a single good photo of a Regent HE during our day out at Capertee Valley. Just not sync this day.
This shows one of the apparently nesting birds gathering spider web -- as seen through the shrubbery at 1/25th sec. Not likely to be sharp!
Friends' property in the Capertee Valley, NSW. Accidentally flushed this little cutie from its hollow which gave me the opportunity for some daytime shots before we moved on and let it get back to sleep.
I had the wide-angle lens on when these three parrots landed near me. Dang!
Scientific name: Psephotus haematonotus
Sex: Male
Location: Capertee Valley, Australia.
Eastern Bearded Dragon catching some sun on a fence post in the Capertee Valley near Glen Davis in the Gardens of Stone National Park, NSW, Australia.
As we left the Valley, thunderstorms began rolling in. This was taken from the road near Glen Davis.
West of Sydney... then north a bit... lies Capertee Valley - officially the World's Largest Canyon
Having recently returned from our US trip, where we saw the Grand one, it was nice to know the Largest one is in our own back yard
Picture this landscape without the trees & bushland...
Sunset onto the sandstone ramparts of the BOgee section of Capertee Valley, below snow-bearing clouds.
Glen Davis is a tiny village in the Capertee Valley (the largest enclosed valley in the Southern Hemisphere).The district was occupied by the Wiradjuri people prior to white settlement, the first European in the immediate vicinity was James Blackman who journeyed north from his depot at what is now Wallerawang towards Mudgee in 1821.
Oil shale was discovered on the future site of Glen Davis in 1873, the first mining tunnel at that site was established in 1881.
Glen Davis works were opened in 1938 and a town of about 2500 people quickly developed around the works which employed 1600 people at their peak in the 1940s. It was named Glen Davis after the Davis Gelatine interests who headed NOP.
Supplies were already running out by 1949 and the end of Chifley's Labor Government meant the end of heavy and on-going assistance from the government. Costs were high, output was low and cheap crude oil was available from the Middle East. Consequently the works closed in 1952. The machinery was stripped in 1953, leaving the ruins which remain today.
Sunset in the Capertee Valley near Rylstone, NSW, early summer 2009.
Much nicer to view this one LARGE and on black: View On Black
Its been too wet to take any new photos this week and I'm getting kinda itchy to get out!