365 Days In Nature - Day 170

I finally had another 'me' day today so I went to my favourite photo-snapping location...the duck pond.

A flock of hundreds of Little Corellas live there.

Every now and then they take off en masse for a whirl around the park then come back to roost in the trees.

They're very loud, but I just love being in the middle of it when it happens!

Love Birds

There are hundreds of little corellas at our local duck pond.

I love the way they sit in pairs in the trees.

They're often grooming each other, or just snuggling up together for a snooze.

Linking up today with Trish @

My Little Drummer Boys

for Wordless Wednesday

Little Corella in Flight

Still desperately trying to capture the perfect bird in flight shot.
Still not perfect...but not bad.

Taken with Nikon D3100

Birds in Flight

Yesterday Miss 3 and I went to the duck pond, again.
I took my camera, again.
I've taken so many photos at the duck pond I didn't know if I would get anything 'new'.
But boy was I wrong.
I took so many that I love I had to write a whole post about it over at my other place, Do I Really Wanna Blog.
Click here to see A Day At the Duck Pond.

It was the flock of wild little corellas that made it special.

It was hard to know what I was getting because of the glare on the camera screen and the birds were moving so fast. I just kept snapping but the camera could hardly keep up, it was too slow.

But I was very happy when I saw them on the computer,
and I gasped when I saw this one.

I still can't believe I took this!