Warren Conservation Park

Once we realised, that whenever we are going somewhere, we usually go South or East from Adelaide, but rarely North. So we took a map and pointed to the first park up from Adelaide. It was Warren Conservation Park.

It’s spring – everything is green and bloom.

Cuckoo is looking for a nest to lay her eggs.

Disturbed lizard rushes to the bushes.

First wild echidna we ever met. But it was very shy and was hiding under the tree.

Pardalote is cheering us with the song.

And nearly idyllic Australian view.

Swamp on the Highway

Sometimes we find interesting places where we least expect that. This happened on our way via Port River Expressway. We saw a brown sign, that suppose to mark something interesting, so we decided to check that.

At the entrance to the Barker Inlet Wetlands we met this beauty, nothing special, but it’s a good start, we thought. However the territory was fenced and locked for restoration or something like that. All we could do just wander along the fence.

I was expecting that this will be something interesting, but it’s just a wild feral duck.

Great Egret was fishing on the shore.

No good.

You can’t walk along the fence a lot, so we went to one of our favorite places – St.Kilda. It was nearly a sunset.

A couple rabbits were grazing in the field…

… and some hens.

But they were really shy, as always.

Urimbirra Wildlife Experience

Once we found an advertisement in some news paper, that you can see crocodiles being fed. That would be interesting, we thought, and remembered the place. Then we looked for more information online, what else do they have, and were amazed. Local Australian predator – Quoll. Like all animals here, this one marsupial as well. Not all animals here are vegetarians 🙂 We had to see it.

Everyone coming in is observed by the big sad eyes.

All bags are checked by the security Emus.

Kangaroos, like always, funny. It’s a leg in the photo on the right.

Flying foxes are asleep at day time.

An here he is – the scary quoll, who is capable to kill a pray 4 times bigger than the animal itself. No wonder he is behind the fence. But a little bit of Photoshop magic and the creature is free.

Crocodile is getting warm in the sun.

White-plumed Honeyeater sharpening his bill.

Wombat is looking for something.

A couple of exotic birds (lat. Gallus gallus).

They have something in common…

The Crow and the starling are not exhibits, but still nice to see.

Glossy and Sacred ibises.

And his majesty the Peacock.

After a walk in the park we wen home by some byways. It was steep.

Very steep.

Still steep.

Some kind of desktop.

And some sheep in the fields.

Sunday with birds

The whole weekend was very productive.

Black Pacific Ducklings rushing to the water.

Cormorants found a place to rest.

Black swan chicks.

Great Egret and White-faced heron.

Little Pied Cormorant is posing.

What a beauty…

Drying.

What’s happening there?

Here fishes, fishes…

I want it too…

That’s not going to happen…

But maybe?…

Hindmarsh island

Our guide offered us to come to the Hindmarsh Island, take a boat to the Younghusband peninsula and walk an incredible trail. However, we did not find any port, just some little private docks. There were no people around, just some sheds, swamp and crows.

Someone had a couple of Black-tailed Native-hens pecking in their yard. They were very shy, but we were able to catch them on film, well, on memory card to be more exact 🙂

All the coast was fenced, but we found our way closer to the jetty.

Back again…

Caspian Tern observing the surroundings.

Crested Tern ready for take off.

Little Black Cormorant.

It’s probably about the terns 🙂

On the other side of the island the view is a bit different.

Somewhere far away SUV’s on the beach.

And a few more.

Footprints of some little crab.

Few Banded Stilt browsing on the coast.

And a Red-necked Avocet among them.

Later we went to the other side, where the SUV’s were. This sign I guess is for them. Poor plovers.

Sunset on the beach – looks nice, but actually it was windy, nearly a sand storm, and terribly cold.

One more photo and we went home.