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This is a shot of Alice taken this week.My work is not far from the base of the big hill in the photo.Its very green out here and we currently have mushrooms and fungi coming out of the woodwork.We went out last weekend not far from town and spotted Emu Wrens,Spinifex Birds and several small flocks of Painted Finches.No photos but im working on it.
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:thumbup: love the second one
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Great pics :D :D
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Forgot to mention i did spot a fawn Zebra finch about a week ago at work.Apparently there has been the odd one spotted over the years.
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Would the Fawn occur naturally ? or Would it be an off spring from and escapee ? ....more pics more pics :D
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Saw the second bird a few years ago whilst camping at Cape Crawford (Heartbreak Hotel) in the NT. It's a Spinifex Pigeon. They are a beautiful looking bird and the ones in the camp were tame as. Could sit there all day and just watch them... and drool.
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the first ever fawns were trapped up north :D
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I think the fawn was a wild bird.A work mate said they had one hanging around a few years ago as well.Not sure an aviary escapee would survive at the moment due to the numbers of birds of prey that are about.Also doubt there are many pure fawn type birds in captivity here.The Spinnies are tame as chooks and i had to do some work in this area this week and looking behind me i noticed a little trail of Spinnies following along behind.They are a beautiful bird but apparently not so easy to breed in captivity.
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