Flying Rainbow

[tomorrowstreasures]

seriously? you don't have squirrels? they are pretty cute... oh - i forgot, you can see raccoon and deer here too - there are actually some that bounce around in our neighborhood during the summer.

[Mad Aussie]

Nope ... no squirrels here.

Deer ... yes ... but almost never see them. More likely to see a snake and that isn't very likely at all.

Raccoons are cool ... I'd love to see raccoons, we don't have them either.

[tomorrowstreasures]

that got me thinking - a map with photos from ph.ca members of the animals in your own hood.

[Mad Aussie]

that got me thinking

And they said it couldn't be done!!!

[tomorrowstreasures]

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[Mad Aussie]

We gotta be able to laugh at ourselves

I had to remove most of the mirrors in the house to stop myself laughing at myself non stop

[JAS_Photo]

Beautiful photos MA! Lol, I have a soft spot for parrots of all kinds. I know Casil in real life and she can attest to having being unudated on a daily basis with photos of my birds.

[Mad Aussie]

Thank you Raiven ... me too. I love parrots. Galahs are hilarious especially around here. They hang upside from powerlines and wrestle each other in the dirt, lying on their backs ... funny stuff from a cockatoo that's about 300mm in height (12 inches to you Americans stuck in the 70's )

[GregL]

on a more serious note, how nice it is to be able to look out your kitchen window at such beauty!!! and the other wild life you have shared! here, it is your basic squirrel and cottontail rabbits. on occasion, you may spy a rodent of one variety or another, but nothing like the awesome critters you have...

One of the things I really enjoy about my photography it that it helps you to look around you...and really see... even when you don't have the camera with you.

[Mad Aussie]

It is cool. I've just climbed out of bed, it's 6.14am, I have a coffee, I'm sitting at my PC (obviously), and over my right shoulder through the glass sliding door I can see the bottle brush tree and about 6 or 8 Rainbow Lorikeets dancing around in it. You hear them before you see them most often, a shrill little call. It's nice to look out at the suns colour hitting the trees and see those bursts of red,orange, blue and green flicking around the tree.

And I know what you mean Greg. I 'see' photos all the time ... with or without the camera.