OH NO...HERE SHE COMES AGAIN!!!

I am sure that if the wildlife around here could talk they would be warning each other to watch out for that woman with the camera in her hand as she tries to inch closer and closer in order to take a close up photo. I haven't mastered using my new Nikon camera and find it so easy to put the little Canon in my pocket when I go outside in the mornings just in case I see an unsuspecting bird sitting on the clothesline or in one of the many trees on our property.

Okay...WHO is the culprit?

This is a story for my little granddaughters. Miss Six is now in Year 1 and can read really well and Miss Four  has a love for animals. My daughter was saying that Miss Six reads my blog so I thought I would write a little story for them and feature some of the wildlife we have around our 1/2 acre. You might like to read along as well :-)

1st anniversary and giveaway!

Well...who would have thought I would have so much to say! Tomorrow it is the first anniversary of this little blog and to celebrate I am having a giveaway of four Australian wildlife books written by my 'old' classmate, Coleen Heathwood. Coleen is not really old but we did leave school back in the sixties.

...AND THE BAND PLAYED AMAZING GRACE

 A classmate of mine, Coleen Heathwood, who has had four books published sent me this poem she wrote recently after attending the Australian Celtic Festival at Glen Innes. About a hundred pipers paraded up the street and stopped in front of the Town Hall, played a few songs and then a lone piper played Amazing Grace which Coleen said, sent goosebumps up her spine especially when the rest of the pipers joined in. She saw an old man in front of her wiping his eyes with his hanky and she was deeply touched and out of that moment came this poem. 

A BIRTHDAY STORY FOR MY GRANDDAUGHTER

I have a little granddaughter who turns 4 years old today. She loves wildlife so I thought I would write a little story for her birthday. As it won't take you long to work out, I am not a story teller but children don't care and I know that she will love reading about all the birds and animals which frequent her backyard and ours. This is purely a fictional story and any resemblance to factual information is purely accidental. :-)