As the title says really.  Geese are so experssive.

This fine specimen was more than happy to pose for me in the yard of Ford House in Bridgetown.  Even without getting snappy!

If there’s one thing you can be sure of with geese it’s that they have a finely tuned nose for when there is food around or when it is feeding time.  Suffice to say, there is little that will distract them at this time (which is all of the time) unless you happen to come between them and said food, in which case you’re in for a beaking and a hiss.

This lovely lot roam the gardens at Ford House in Bridgetown.

A juvenile seagull hunkers down to begin a preening regime on the shoreline of Lake Monger.  Many young seagulls are following their parents around this time of the year learning how to trick your mate out of a chip and the best angle of inclination with which to dive bomb a car windscreen.  They make such a quiet squeak; quite in contrast to their older, surlier brethren.

A corella steels itself to land into a willow tree to join his friends late in the afternoon on the shores of Lake Monger.  The birds are truly ‘in season’ around the lake at the moment and put on a fantastic show.  A few days ago some friends and I were at the lake for a a barbeque and one bird was on the ground playing with a stick and rolling around as a dog would.  Great fun to watch!

While the cream of the crop comes to this site, the ‘still pretty good’ images from this Lake Monger photo shoot have been posted up on my other blog.  I like to create a back story to each of the series where possible and also to put together a more comprehensive selection of images , whereas this site generally focuses on a single image a day.

The absolute best images will for now remain site unseen until they’re included in some of the upcoming ‘series’ which will be put on this site.

Not quite the ‘chorus of corellas‘ that Darren Hanlon experienced in Manilla, NSW, but there was still a partially deafening cacophany of birds playing and nesting in trees on the shores of Lake Monger.  The birds seem to have also taken up home in a tree about 100 metres from my house which is equal parts wonderful and squawking!