Let me explain. In between serving breakfasts and making lunches at Biloela, I occasionally got to sit down and rest my weary legs. On one such occasion, I spotted a little bird hopping around in the fence below the lounge window.
I managed to get a picture to show you and I was really surprised to find such a scruffy little bird!
So I got out my trusty Field Guide to Australian Birds and on page 224 found the Red-backed Fairy-Wren which normally has brilliant scarlet and black plumage with brownish wings. However, in autumn, males moult to eclipse plumage for five or six months, but older dominant males miss the eclipse plumage stage completely, moulting directly to their new colourful breeding plumage. So now we know that this is a young male.
He was very cute and I never saw him again so I was lucky to get this shot.
We are still packing stuff and moving stuff and labelling stuff. We have the truck booked and plan on leaving Sunday to arrive late afternoon in Gayndah.
While on the subject of Gayndah, I have to sit a TAFE Course for a Food
Safety Supervisors Certificate. This will allow the council to issue us with a Food Safety Certificate and we can pepare meals for guests. Well, I can anyway. This course involves about 10 hours study and I have to squeeze it in along with everything else on my mind. It's not so much a matter of finding time to do the study, it is remembering the study enough to pass the tests, because my poor brain is whirling around with lots of different threads of information and lists and requirements and schedules. Oh! No wonder I sometimes feel a headache coming on.
Mum and Dad gave us a farewell dinner last night with family all invited. They surprised us with a gift of a weather station photo frame which we will put in our reception area as a talking point. Thanks everyone!
Bye for now.
Awesome weather station! That will be great in reception. Good luck with the move. Love from me.
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