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Yes Spring has cycled around again and lots of courting, mating and nest construction is under way in our part of the world, as the most industrious productive time of year for many birds, particularly the passerines gets underway. However, let it be known that many Australian birds nest in the colder Winter months also, for example the Superb Lyrebird. While we were in Wagga Wagga again by Lake Albert we sighted a pair of Eastern Rosella checking and guarding their next in a River Gum by the lake. These extremely human shy birds usually fly off on our approach, but because they are nesting they are captive to the hole on the tree. Parrots, similar to owls, Kookaburras and Kingfishers choose to nest in tree holes.

Look carefully at this video clip note firstly the lovely call of the female calling from a branch from behind the tree and also the wing and tail flicking which is a classic warding off behaviour of many of the Parrot family and performed with much more aggressive vigor by the Rainbow Lorikeets when they are nesting. Eastern Rosella are found only in the south eastern Australian mainland including NSW and Victoria,

Some of the other species seen by the lake were the Dusky Woodswallow, which we find nesting here each Spring and Summer.

The sound of our only warbler, the tiny Australian Reed Warbler can be heard calling from their nests deep within the reeds as their clamorous sound warding off other reed warblers, hence its previous name Clamorous Reed Warbler. They are a challenge to photograph as they fly rapidly from the reeds to nearby trees in search of food for the nest.

Australasian Swamphen previously the Purple Swamphen are feeding by the waters edge, as one keeps lookout on top of the reeds.

The Superb Fairy-wren male is in his beautiful breeding plumage again as another sign of Spring, accompanied by his not so fancy female. There are many families of Fairy-wren on the waters edge in amongst the reeds.

The tiny White-plumed Honeyeater are also present high in the blossom of the trees. This honeyeater is the main honeyeater found west of the ranges in the dryer regions of the west.

Sadly on this occasion we did not have success in seeing the Yellow Rosella found in this area, but we did see the beautiful male Red-rumped Parrot, a parrot prolific to the areas west of the Ranges. These are often seen grazing on grass seed around the grassy banks of the lake.

Enjoy a wonderful week of birding and adventure as you get out and about. More studies are confirming what we knew all along: that birding is a very healthy pastime for maintaining physical, emotional, mental and even spiritual wellbeing. It ground us and helps lower blood pressure, ease stress and clear burdened and depressed mind states, restoring a sense of peace and wholeness. Find out more on my Benefits of Birding page here.

These above qualities are God’s own loving character, which was lost to the human race when sin (selfishness) entered our beautiful world, resulting in many feeling broken, fearful, insecure and rejected. How we model love to our children, spouse and friends will help restore what was lost, Jesus came for this very purpose. To seek and to save the lost (Luke 19:10)

Sadly we are all born lost from relationship with our loving heavenly Father Creator God, because of the lostness of our parents and teachers in our life who are also lost, and unable due to their brokenness to model God’s perfect love to us.Unless they/we come into the light of God’s saving mercy and grace being found by Jesus and restored to the loving relationship with our One True God, we are left to personally discover God through Jesus for ourselves.

The Good Shepherd currently seeks out his lost sheep here on earth, those who realise they are broken and can not fix or save themselves. They realise that mankind does not hold the answers to life, and that there is a great deception in the secular humanistic worldly philosophy and its so called ‘sciences’. Science can examine but cannot make whole what is lost and broken in the hearts and minds of people. It is only when Jesus the Good Shepherd finds and rescues us, that we find him, that we are restored and made truly whole, secure through faith in his death and resurrection, to a life of eternal hope and fulfilment. Christians aren’t perfect, they are just forgiven. Each one is a work in progress, which will be perfectly completed and restored at Jesus return to earth.

““I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.” – John 10:11 (NIV)

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