Photos of Eastern Rosella Parrots

Huh? Like, where the heck is the name Sarah Palin in the title of this post???? Well, I was gonna call this post SARAH PALIN SCREENSAVER (since LOTS of folks are looking for one via google searches), but I decided to wait till I've actually made a Sarah Palin Screensaver. Which I will be doing.

Just thought y'all might want a break...

Yesterday we went bushwalking. Saw loads of koalas (hence the post yesterday of a koala I named Sarah Palin in a tree with her baby), and an uncountable number of birds of many varieties. Lots of good pics, but we'll start with...

Eastern rosella parrots!

They nest in the hollows of older (or dead) gum trees. Fortunately, Australia has a rather large number of gum trees so there's plenty to choose from. I think this pair was doing a bunch of spring cleaning as the entire inside of this dead gum tree is hollow and they were going in and out every opening while chattering consantly.

This first pic is just one of them, at a huge opening around 15 feet up (tree was perhaps 18 feet high).


This next one has both of the rosella's in it, you'll see the tail of one of them sticking out about middle left. Also notice that you can see straight through the tree in three places. Old gums get hollow!


The last shot has both of them, but neither of them are facing the camera, damn! Why did I inculde this one? When you see the really awesome lens flare you'll know why! Absolutely NO touching up or photoshopping was done to this pic:



And remember folks: Don't worry, bee happy :)


I'm off for the day. Winter just might finally be over! It's 73 F in the shade and 95 F in the sun here at the ole homestead. Pool water temp is 70 F so there's a good chance I'll be getting wet today when it starts to get warm this afternoon.

Lot's of planting to do, tomatoes and sunflowers. Just to let you know, the self-seeding winter sunflowers are doing quite well but I don't think any of them will get over a meter high. I'm hoping for 2 meters off the ones I'll be planting today. Also got a lot more tomato plants this year so I'll be hoping for at least 200. Hmmmm, still got a jar of last years pickled green ones...

And I'm sure everyone will be happy to know that the grape vines are already sprouting this season's leaves so they made it through our icy-cold winter with no worries. I know that'll set your minds at rest...

Sarah Palin Naked In Tree With Baby

Since my best blogging mate, Ishmael, way up north in Alaska doesn't feel that I've gone overboard with all this naming of various wildlife Sarah Palin, I thought I'd upload a photo I shot just today showing a Totally Naked Sarah Palin In A Tree Holding Her Baby!!

Now how does that Tom Petty song go? I'm a baaaad boy...

Get ready guys!
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Here it is!
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Are you getting excited yet guys?

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And here it is!



Ahhhhhhh, what a release from the suspense, eh?

I took this pic of momma and baby koala about 5 hours ago out bushwalking, BTW. Cute little buggers.

Red Hot Naked Sarah Palin Action Pictures!

Woo-Hoo! I've got 'em! Yessireee! Just what y'all rednecks want! Totally naked pics of Sarah Palin in action! One of the pics is even a NAKED CATFIGHT!!

The other two pics show her viciously defending her territory from a gang of commie russkie thugs!! NAKED! Arms overhead and breasts out there for all to see!!!

Gosh guys, it just doesn't get any better than this, eh?

Oh, ummmmm, hang about... Ahhh, y'all might want to know that I've named one of the galahs that likes to hang around in our backyard... I've named her Sarah Palin. Sarah Palin has a lovely pink breast... :)

And here's the first picture of a Sarah Palin CATFIGHT where she gives a beat down to anyone who stands in her way while totally NAKED!


And next we see a NAKED SARAH PALIN courageously defended ALASKA from the terrible, GODLESS, RUSSIAN threat! All by herself; totally NAKED!!!!


And finally, we see a NAKED SARAH PALIN driving off the godless forces of evil and making the world a safe place for oil companies!


Ummmm, did I just go a weee bit overboard?

Bloody Cold Winter Weather!!!!

Bah! Crikey, mate. Can't wait till spring is here! Blech! This cold has JUST GOT TO STOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I mean, c'MON! 'ere it 'tis, lunchtime... and the SHADE temp is only a bloomin' 72 F?! I mean, like WTF????? Sun temp has only JUST now got(ten) (thanks Sarah Palin) over 100 F. Water temp in the pool is a bloody ICY COLD 68 F!! I mean, C'MON! How can any bloke be expected to work in these conditions?

Blarf, phloog, blargle-doop!

Sigh...

Nothing left 'cept to go for a swim in the FROZEN pool! Sigh... I hope the parrots don't dive bomb me much this arvo...

Dang, bloody-well glad winter is over! Can't wait for it to start to think about maybe warming up a wee bit!!!!!!

Ssssssssiiiiiiiiiiiiiiggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...........

Oi! When's it gonna warm up?

Hey now! Just don't call my mom any mean names!

UPDATE: Bleah... 75 is the shade... Dang happy to finally be able to take the jacket off and not have to wear boots!

UPDATE: One of my self-seeded sunflower plants (that seeded itself in the middle of winter in a pot with one of my palm trees) is getting ready to flower. Here's a pic of the early bud, you can see the yellow on the flower already. Please notice the fuzz on the bud... even the sunflowers are felling the COLD!

Sarah Palin Is Coming To Git Ya!

Watch out ISH! Sarah Palin is coming fooooorrrrr yoooouuuuuuurrrrrrrr ssssoooooouuuuulll!!!! Just like the Dread Pirate Roberts


I'm gonna get you little Ishy
I'm gonna eat you little Ishy


In answer to your question: Why, yes. Yes I was watching Red Dwarf last night.

Did anyone notice how fat Sarah Palin (the galah) is getting lately?

Or is it just me?

Revealing Sarah Palin Pics

Yes, that's true! I have revealing Sarah Palin pics. I've decided to name my new girlfriend Sarah Palin. That means whenever I post a pic of her showing her pink breast I get to say I have naked Sarah Palin pics! Pretty shrewd, eh?

Do you remember that galah, the one who's been hanging around the yard eating all my sunflower seeds while batting her eyelashes at me and flaunting her feminine wares in my general direction?

So, here's the two pics of a completely clothless (NAKED) Sarah Palin:



Don't y'all just love it when I share?

Sarah Palin, I Have Two Wieners

... from my song contest. Oops! Typo in the title of this post. Sorry, it's supposed to be "winners", not "wieners". And how the heck did Sarah Palin's name get in the title --again. Darned gremlins!

Before I tell you about the song and who won, how's abouts I put up a picture of a naked, colorful gal. No, not Sarah Palin.


The turtledoves are darned common down here so I usually don't even bother photographing them. In fact, this one happened to fly in to the area I'd pre-focused on to get one of the rainbow lorikeets in flight. The lories have a darned fast wingbeat and pre-focusing on a spot is a good way to get good pics of them. Of course, then you've got to wait for one of the little green buggers to fly through your focus area...

The contest winners are Ishmael from Kodiak, Alaska and Cathy from Kotzebue, Alaska (she's Tundra Tantrum and I'm jealous of her camera). Now, I'm not surprised at all that Fishmeal would know the song, but I was surprised that Cathy knows it. Maybe it gets lots of airtime in rural Alaska? Or perhaps it was played at the local Freaker's Ball, held recently in Ester?

What was the song? Well it was I Got Stoned and I Missed It by Dr.Hook and The Medicine Show. I'm not sure if it came out before they shortened the band name to Dr. Hook or not --my memory is a little bit suspect from back then. It's rather funny, wouldn't be surprised to hear that ole Dr Demento aired the song.

So here's the deal for Ish and Cathy: Rummage through my archives, pick your ten most favorite pics and I'll make a screensaver of them (windows only, sorry). OR select 10 pics and I'll make wallpapers from the original files sized for your screen. This is open to negotiation, BTW. My email is

alaskandavedownunder(at)gmail(dot)com

So, does anyone have any ideas for another contest?

A Hint, Critters, and Sarah Palin

Hmmmm, let's play Sesame Street again! One of these things just doesn't belong (y'all remember the song, of course you do!). Now let's me think... ooo, could take a while... Ahhh! Right! Any mention of Sarah Palin just doesn't belong on this blog. Whew, glad I got that out of way.

What's the hint about? Scroll down to the previous post about a song title. Remember, whoever can give me the name of the band and the song title will get a custom screensaver of my parrot pics, or wallpapers of them.

So, ummmmm, what's the hint? I have several:

1) One of the few successful bands with TWO lead singers.

2) Think 1960's

3) The first line of the song is (with no accent or inflection) "I was sitting in my basement..."

C'mon all you old hippies! You've only got 9 more days.

And now on with the Aussie critter pics!

This first one I thought of calling A Cacophony Of Color. I then I thought of A Galah Looking Up The Lorikeet's Skirts. So which is it?


Just tossing this next one up cus I think it's looks so cool.


Is it ALIVE?


Why yes, yes it is alive --barely!


Massive hangover:

Ooooohhhhh, I've GOT to remember not to mix beer and wine, EVER!

...Oh Me Oh My...

Yes, I missed it. The Sarah Palin bounce, that is. Heck, I didn't even k(no)w how to pro-noun-ce her name! Sorta like Valdez, Valdez, Valdez --three(3) pronounciations depending on where you are from. In Castellano, it'd be pronounced as Valdeath. Fitting, eh? Anywho, I only doubled my traffic yes(turd)ay. Or was it the day before? Whatever, I missed it!

I promise never, ever, ever again to pander to the LCD in order to get traffic. There. Those crystals should be safe now that I'm not pandering to them no more.

Back to the topic... what topic? Oh, yeah. THAT topic.

If anyone can tell me what song the title of this post is yanked from, then I'll give you something. Free. On me. No worries. Now, I wouldn't be surprised that the title of this post has somehow mistakenly found it's merry way into other songs over the ensuing decades (is time linear?); but there's one song I'm thinking of...

Go ahead: guess! I want the name of the band and the song title. I'll even give you a hint: reread the first paragraph of this post.

What will you get? I'll make a custom screensaver of any 10 bird pics (you get to pic them) that have appeared here. I can only make them for PC, so for mac users I'll make fullsize wallpapers from the original files.

How do you enter? Just put your guess in the comments on this post, no worries.

What if no one wins? Tough shit, but I might award something for the funniest comment (judged by yours truly, of course) if no one guesses right. Y'all gots till September 15th (aussie time, HA!) to get your guesses in.

And now for the (w)hole reason why everyone visits me:



Oops, blurry again... I was focused on the galah as she was about to fly off and the lorie flew in. Sigh... I've got better ones, REALLY!

Sarah Palin

is NOT the subject of this blog post. She does however have a semi-secret admirer/wannabe boytoy in Kodiak, Alaska. I just thought that since I'd lived in Alaska over a 5 decade span that perhaps I should say something about her. There, I said it.

The above is my political statement for the decade.

Now, on with the birdie pics! Do you ever wonder what type of food cockatoos LOVE? Well, they'll tear an almond tree to shreds in 30 seconds flat --I've timed it. The flock descends upon an almond tree just as the almonds are about to ripen. The shells still have their green fuzz on them, and the almond is nice and chewy. Here's proof:

Here he is doing the canoe job on the almond:


Those are big claws...


Where's my bib?


Very interesting tongue...



If you don't get that camera out of my face then this will be your finger!

Round two:

This is MINE! You can not have it!