We have such unique and varied wildlife here in Australia, so this week for a change I thought I’d share a few photos at Fiesta Friday instead. These were all taken either within our own garden or while camping/holidaying not too far from home.
Sulphur-Crested Cockatoo – intelligent… animated… raucous!
Sulphur-Crested Cockatoo – so beautiful in flight
Brush-Tail Possums at night – mother and child (who really looks a little too old to be hitching a ride with Mum!)
Kookaburra – renowned for their incredible laugh
Echidna – our amazing monotreme (egg laying mammal)!
Koala – looking a little sleepy as usual
Magpie – notorious for their aggressive swooping ability in the spring
Kangaroo – ahhh, need I say more…
Kangaroo with a Joey in her pouch
Please come along and join us at Fiesta Friday #28 this week. The fabulous Saucy Gander and I have been invited back for an encore performance of co-hosting (despite due to our ridiculously glamourous Dame Edna get-up from last week).
Angie @ The Novice Gardener, who is the brainchild behind this ever-growing, dynamic online party, deserves both gratitude and admiration from us all for the effort that goes into hosting FF each and every week. I don’t know how she does it… I’m exhausted after just co-hosting for 1 week! You’re amazing Angie! Thank you for all that you do!
So to join in the fun, link your post by clicking on the colourful logo here below. Within your post, please remember to link to the FF#28 posts of ‘The Novice Gardener’, as well as to Saucy and myself (to notify us of your arrival at the party). If you’re new to Fiesta Friday, the guidelines can be perused here… Such a lot of fun and inspiration, bringing together bloggers from around the world and providing the opportunity for your post to shine and be seen.
Happy Fiesta Friday to all and a fabulous weekend!
Gather & Graze 
What a fun post! I love all the photos!
Cheers Patty! 🙂
Always wanted too sea koalas alive! They are so cute!!!! 🙂
Loved the photos, especially the sweet pics of the momma and baby kangaroo.
Thanks Cheri, I think that’s my favourite photo too – so sweet!
There are some fantastic animals in Australia! I heard though that the magpie can be really nasty 😮
They make the most beautiful sounds Erika, but can be somewhat overprotective of their nests/chicks. They particularly seem to love swooping the postmen on their motorbikes and people on their bicycles.
I love seeing all these amazing Australian animals. They’re sure to make the party a little rowdy though!
Hmmm, sounds pretty common for a bunch of Aussies! 😉
great photos. I love possums but those bloody loud cockies…. grrr
Thanks Hungry Mum… they are incredibly noisy at times aren’t they? and often rather too early in the morning for my liking. However, after spending a couple of years in the USA, in an area that was almost non-existent in it’s birdlife – it was such a joy to come home to our beautiful, colourful parrots and warbling magpies and laughing kookaburras. It’s all pretty unique and fabulous!
Beautiful pics Margot:-) happy cohosting
Cheers, it’s been a pleasure to co-host once again!
Lovely photos! 🙂
Thank you so much Nell 🙂
Thanks for sharing your great pictures from Australia – what a beautiful country 🙂 Besides adoring a well-known golf pro, loving the movie “Australia” and the animals such as the kangaroos that I get to see at the zoos that will be the closest I will ever come to visiting:)
Judi, that makes me both happy and sad all at the one time! So lovely that you find so much to like about Australia, but am sorry to hear that you won’t be paying us a visit. I’ll have to share a few more photos in future, so that you can visit us virtually instead. 🙂
Margot, such lovely pics! The koala and the possums look so cute! Just yesterday I was telling my husband that i would love to visit Australia since I also have some family there whom i would love to visit. But my husband discouraged me talking about the extremely long air ride from NY to Sydney! 🙂 So thank you for bringing a slice of Australia for me and also for co-hosting again!
Oh Indu, it is a long way, but it’s all so worth it once you actually get here… and best if you have a few weeks at least to travel around (and see family). I really hope you do take the flight one day to come and visit! 🙂
yes I also do hope that someday I will visit! 🙂 thanks for motivating!
Awesome post Margot, love the photo’s of the beautiful wild life of Australia, it’s amazing and gorgeous. Thank you so much for hosting again, can’t get enough of you and Saucy, you always know how to keep it lively!
It’s been a lot of fun Suzanne – thank you! You’ll have to send these Dame Edna look-alikes home soon, otherwise they might never leave! Especially with so much great food around… 🙂
Lol, well I think they are channeling the Grand Dame who I have heard is quite the party animal!
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That’s it, I’m moving to Australia, so I can hug a koala! 🙂 Do they really smell like eucalyptus? Lovely post and photos, Margot!
Excellent! Let me know what time to meet your flight Angie! 🙂
Koala’s apparently do have a slight eucalyptus smell, though I’ve never quite picked up on it myself when I’ve had the chance to get close enough to one. They are extremely hard to spot in the wild (I’ve only ever seen them a handful of times outside of wildlife sanctuaries and zoos) though in other areas they are much more prevalent…. so very cute though! Kangaroos, on the other hand, are a rather common sight where we live here in Canberra… and sweet to watch all the same! Happy FF#28!
Margot, You are so blessed to be living amidst nature! All that wonderful wildlife. Thanks very much for sharing such beautiful pictures!
Thanks so much Suchitra – isn’t it a wonderful world that we live in!? 🙂
wow, such a fun journey,
my little nieces and nephews gonna be crazy about it!!!
Thanks very much! 🙂
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Thank you for sharing these wildlife pics Margot. Gonna show them to my li’l munchkin 🙂
That’s great Naina – so pleased that you enjoyed the photos! Happy FF#28! 🙂
Great collection of Aussie animals! What a coincidence we both brought photo collections this week, I’m sure there is a theme in this…? Thank you for co-hosting again, Margot, you are a great host!!
Also a coincidence that we just commented on each other’s posts within a minute of each other!!
Thanks for your kind words Saucy. Oh and also hope that you feel better soon – so much sickness going around at the moment! 😦 Not much fun at all…
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Haha!! Co-hosting is a great time, though, isn’t it Margot? Thanks so much for spending time with us for a second time in a row! You’re doing a great job… keeping everyone happy at the party!!
Now for these photos… AMAZING. I can’t even imagine having that wildlife in my own backyard, or even that close to where I live! I mean, I was excited when we had a bluebird in our backyard a year ago, but to see those birds that you do? That’s just craziness!! And that kangaroo… so sweet. Are they just wild, like hopping around free? It is crazy, because the kangaroos that I’ve ever seen are in a zoo! I guess it’s no different for you, than it is for me to see white tail deer at our cabin, black bears, and raccoons! 🙂 Awesome…Awesome post. I truly enjoyed this. ❤
What a lovely comment Prudy – thank you so very much! It’s been fabulous mixing with the FF party crowd – an absolute joy!
Happy that you enjoyed the Aussie animal photos… and yes, we do get a lot of kangaroos in our local area, coming down to graze on the grass in parks nearby. I still get excited to see them though each and every time!
The wildlife in North America is equally as awesome – I particularly love watching documentaries on all sorts of bears, though pleased the only one we saw in the wild (while travelling in Canada) was seen from a car window and not on a walking track!
Happy FF to you and can’t wait to see what you’re bringing to the party this week!
Commiserations! Hahaha. I know how you feel after co-hosting F&F. That Saucy! Nah, can’t blame it on SG. Actually, FF (as I should call it) wasn’t even as busy then. Took me until the following Wednesday to catch up with everyone, as I don’t have online access on my phone. Only via my laptop.
As for shooting wildlife! Every morning, around 3ish during summer I’m heckled by very large and incredibly loud seagulls – that quite often keep me awake until they fly off to feed. Besides pigeons that’s all I ever see here.
It certainly is a busy couple of days getting around to visit everyone at FF – but fun and so interesting to read what everyone is up to and to come across a few new bloggers and their sites. Miss Saucy is doing a stellar job of topping everyone up with Dame Edna Cocktails this week… no wonder my commenting is flowing freely! Normally so shy and reserved! 😉
Pigeons and seagulls! They can be fun to watch too… though perhaps not at 3 in the morning! I guess it must be light quite early where you are, in the summertime…
Enjoy your weekend… what’s on the menu these days? We really do all miss you Johnny!
Where you been, Johnny?!?!
Skulking from you! No, only joshing. I’ve stopped blogging. But I’m still keeping up to date with some of you. In the meantime, hoping your family hols are going well.
Hi Margot! I don’t know how Angie does it either! Anyway hope Angie’s having a wonderful trip and meanwhile, I love love LOVE you sharing a little slice of Australia and the adorable creatures who grace it with us. Can’t believe y’all took these shots yourselves. It looks like out of a nature documentary. I’ve been told magpies love shiny objects (as do I) so I want to love them, but the featured magpie looks kind of mean! That first kangaroo shot just melted my cold heart. I’m in a puddle!
have a lovely weekend and get some rest after your gracious FF hosting xoxo
Oh Azita, that little kangaroo melts my heart too! I have a gorgeous shot of my two boys standing beside that same sweet little roo with their hands perched up on their heads (like kangaroo ears) – taken when they were about 5 and 7 years old and when it wasn’t uncool to pretend to be animals!
As for the magpies – they’re mostly mean and nasty during the springtime as they’re protecting their nests/chicks. Though having reddish-coloured eyes certainly doesn’t help them in the sweet and adorable stakes.
Hope you have a fab weekend too my friend! It’s cold here, but at least it’s sunny and we’ve been able to get into the garden to start getting things ready for spring! 🙂 M.xx
I’m exhausted! I need a vacay after this, to recover from the holiday! But having a great time seeing and doing. Thanks, Azita! ❤
Lovely pictures!
Thank you so much Francesca. Hope you have a wonderful weekend! 🙂
I love the pictures, it looks so exotic. How lucky you are to live there 🙂
Thank you Petra… it really is a wonderful place to live (there’s no place like home!) though always such a pleasure to travel and experience new cultures, people and food! Much more exotic than being at home… 🙂
Amazing pictures. You are correct that your animal life is different from many of ours. Thank you so much for co-hosting FF again!
You’re so very welcome… and thank you for your kind comment! Enjoy Fiesta Friday – it’s going to be another great party this week! 🙂
Love the photos from down under. Mucho Gracias
Ah, mucho gracias to you too! Very kind! 🙂
Stunning photos! I really can’t wait until I’m able to visit Australia. Thanks for co-hosting this week again, happy FF! 🙂
Thank you so very much! Happy FF to you too – have you seen Saucy’s photos this week? She has some amazing shots that have put a trip to Burma very firmly on my wish list! 🙂
Oh, you are so lucky to have such beauty in close proximity! Wonderful photos and so nice of you to bring them to FF! 😀
Thanks Julianna! I think that every country in the world has beautiful and unique flora and fauna… that’s why it’s always such a joy to travel and explore new lands! Though I must say, that I never tire of seeing the colourful parrots that hang out in our back garden or the kangaroos that come down to feed in the parkland across the road from us from time to time – always so exciting!
Great shots of your wild neighbors!!!! It’s so amazing how varied wildlife is around the world. Thank you so much for hosting this week while Angie has some much deserved down time.
Cheers Meghan! Thanks for your lovely comment – it’s great to hear from you. You’re absolutely right… the natural world is truly amazing! Hope you enjoy Fiesta Friday this week!
Love your choice of wildlife to share. i spent 3 months in australia in 2006 and saw lots of amazing wildlife, also saw some pretty scary wildlife (including an eastern brown snake!). Australia is a beautiful country, but you sure do have a lot of things that can kill you haha!
Oh Michelle… not very nice to come across a brown snake in your travels! I’m not too keen on snakes at all, even when I know they’re non-venomous! Funny though, I think I was much more hesitant to go hiking when we lived in the USA… we travelled to some beautiful places, but I couldn’t get past the fact that there were bears out there… and cougars… and rattle snakes… I think I’d rather hike in Australia. Or better still… New Zealand – there’s nothing to kill you there! 🙂
I’m not a big snake person either, luckily that was the only snake we came across and obviously no bites were involved!
Haha I think I’d prefer to take my chances with bears and cougars, at least you can see them coming – although I have this thing where I really want to hug a bear because they look so snuggly, so I probably shouldn’t ever get close to one in real life haha!
New Zealand definitely sounds like the best plan!
I love seeing this amazing wildlife (especially kangaroo and koala) through your lens. Thank you. Australia is a place I would love to visit.
I really hope you get to come out and visit one day Stacey – there’s a lot to see and do! It’s hard to go past the kangaroo and the koala (so sweet!), though I think my favourite Australian animal is the very elusive Platypus. They are such an extraordinary creatures… that I’ve only ever seen once in the wild (about 6 years ago)… such an exciting day that was!
Fantastic photos. Those critters can be very difficult to photo sometimes. Kangaroos are compliant, but cockies, not so much. They fly away just as we sneak up on them. Well done!
So true… I’ve been trying to get some photos recently of a large flock of cockatoos that have been munching away under the oak trees of my child’s school… but to no avail! Though possibly would help to be using the DSLR with a large zoom, rather than the iPhone…
Thanks so much for your kind comment. Hope you’re having a wonderful weekend!
Hi Margot, i loved all your photos but I do have some favorites. The first two and the last one are just amazing! Thanks for hosting the party again,have a nice weekend! 🙂
Aww, thank you so much Radhika! Funny, I was almost going to attach a poll to get people to vote on their favourite Aussie animal (purely out of curiosity)! Happy FF#28, I’m looking forward to visiting your new post very soon! 🙂
It’s my pleasure Margot! Yes, you are most welcome. 🙂
Happy FF.
So glad you’re co-hosting again after I missed Fiesta Friday last week on a road trip! The pictures from Australia are absolutely beautiful. I love the wide array of animals that you featured, and the links to learn more about them. Have a wonderful weekend, and I can’t wait to see what FF has in store for us this week. 😀
Very sweet of you… thanks Kaila! I’m so looking forward to seeing what delights FF#28 has in store for us too! Let me offer you a rather special Dame Edna Cocktail – they are free-flowing this week and you really don’t want to miss out!
Margot, the pictures look so inviting to visit Australia 🙂 Thank you for co-hosting again this week. Have a fabulous Fiesta and weekend too!
Thanks Linda… when you book your Aussie holiday, be sure to let me know – you will be welcomed with open arms! Hope you have fun at FF and a wonderful weekend also.
Love the share on Australia! So beautiful! Thanks! Thanks for co-hosting FF again.. it’s going to be a great party!
Happy FF Lisa – hope you enjoy the party this week too! So pleased you liked the photos. 🙂
Lovely captures Margot. ..just loved all the pics but the most cutest is kangaroo with baby in his sac. .. choooo cute…thanx for sharing such lovely clicks on Ff..Happy co-hosting. …
The kangaroos really are quite sweet Chitra… all except the large males who can be rather intimidating and will box with each other (and humans!) if they feel threatened. Thanks so much for your kind comment.