My husband was painting down near the lagoon, so I wandered down with the camera hoping to find a few new birds to show you. This gorgeous sunny day drew me in, and two hours later I arrived home with some lovely photos of my walk. This is part of the Bingie Dreaming Track, including some views, birds and butterflies encountered on the way. Of course there were other fabulous birds that flitted in front of me briefly, such as the Rufous Whistler, but for my own pleasure since the camera is too slow for such sudden visitations of the sublime!
Masked Lapwing
artist at work
dragonfly waiting to be rescued from the sand
looking south-east over our beach
Shag Rock
and close-up of the shags
looking north over Meringo Beach
Dreaming Track sign
track behind Meringo Beach
Great Cormorant at Meringo ICOLL
Meringo
Silvereye in the Banksia
Brown Thornbill
bright blue sea through Banksia integrifolia
Common Brown butterfly
Common Brown butterfly
unknown small butterfly
unknown small butterfly again
In case you want to look up the birds, here are the links: Masked Lapwing, Brown Thornbill, Silvereye, Great Cormorant. Here is a picture of the Rufous Whistler
I hope you enjoyed sharing my walk 🙂
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I certainly did, even the name Bingie dreaming track. What a totally relaxing morning you had – I’m off to work to do some year end accounts!
i just finished work for the evening .. teaching yoga … after this week and wednesday’s classes i have 2 weeks off, time for some more walks! sorry to hear about end-of-year accounts, gives me the horrors!!
What a peaceful start to the day. Thanks!
glad to share, like your adventures!
Thanks – these are wonderful – the shot of the common brown butterfly is anything but common!
i thought it was such a dull name for such a lovely creature …. but they are common, probably where you are too! as i walked they kept rising up from the path in front of me, invisible until they moved, then i just had to watch until they settled again 🙂
Wow! Now that is one stunning morning walk hon! These photo’s are just gorgeous! Thanks for sharing. I could smell the ocean breeze. 🙂
thanks sonel! i love seeing around your place too 🙂
Thank you for the wonderful walk. I think I would have deverted down that path to see where it lead. If I lived in your part of the world I would be trying my hand at painting as well. So much natural beauty to see. If looks like your husband has a great landscape in the process.
BE ENCOURAGED! BE BLESSED!
thanks francine … he has an exhibition coming up so is inspired! maybe you will come and visit one day and we can do the walk together 🙂
That would be wonderful. Thanks for the invitation. If I am ever in your area, I will definately go on that walk.
i know australia is a long way away but some americans do get here 🙂
Maybe I can come with Oprah’s next trip. (smile) I wish I could visit your country, it is so beautiful there. In any case, your photos and hospitality are the next best thing.
you did win a trip to New York, so anything is possible!!!!
You have made a believer out of me. Yes anything is possible. I BELIEVE SOMEDAY I WILL BE IN AUSTRALIA!
What a wonderful beach and those shags are so geometrically interesting. Of course I love the birds, too. The only one that looks like ones in our country are the cormorants. I know we have lapwings here, but I’ve never seen one.
Thanks for sharing with us …
good to hear from you doug, i was thrilled to see the lapwing on our beach today, they are such common birds but not usually here, more often you find them nesting on a traffic island in the city or something daft! did you see the photo that was inspired by you a few posts ago? it is here http://wp.me/p1kP6q-Cc
Wonderful walk, lovely photos, i can tell you are a happy person, I am also married to a painter, but the studio kind, not plein air, we both photograph but he has to revise his on canvas, i revise mine in photoshop, thanks for the walk this morning, MJ
thanks mj, i am off to bed, minding busy 2 year old in the morning so no painting or walking tomorrow 🙂
I certainly did enjoy my walk! I loved the photo of the track, wondering where the next bend would bring me out!
so glad you came along claire, like i did in the snow with you, how wonderful to have these windows onto another part of the world we share 🙂
Thanks for the walk and what a cute Rufous Whistler! 🙂
they are gorgeous, but solitary and they keep in the shadows of the bushland, hard to capture!
Well, you got a great shot if I do say so myself! You must have been real quiet. 🙂