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What has been your highlight today, no matter how big or small? Come share 🫶

What has been your highlight today, no matter how big or small? Come share 🫶

Hi everyone! This is my first ever forum post so do hope it lands where it’s meant to 🤣

Most days, I like to find a highlight 😊. Usually, that means during a walk with my dog, I try to spot something different, something cool or something that brings me some happiness. Whether it’s something big or small, it doesn’t matter. A highlight can be anything!

I love taking photos and would really like to share and see what you've come across. Something that made you smile, sparked your interest, or simply caught your eye. For me, it’s all the little things that count on the hard days.


To start, I’d like to share these beautiful birds I came across today. They like to appear like branches of a tree or the tree itself. They are called Tawny Frogmouth’s. Has anyone else seen these types of birds? My pics below -(hopefully not too small to see two in the tree on the left pic).

What have you seen today? ☀️💛🙏

 

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Thanks so much @Adge @for sharing!! I love the knowledge you have about birds!!

From a non bird person do you think they are like homing pigeons like they could fly back to their owners or likely escaped for good?

hahs they had me confused for a bit cos they were seen randomly but I was thinking I don’t think these are native I had never seen them before lol!

there was two of them which was nice to know they had each other.
Do you have any pics of your love birds ☺️

these are the birds I saw today below

loveeeeee your bird pic @Mustang67 so good!! 🥰🦜

@PeppyPatti I didn’t realise you had birds too how cool!

 

 

over the last couple of months:

 a crimson finch, doesn’t look like the pic came out well at all but how cool are there colours so hard to get pics of them such flighty birds

 I liked these guys until I saw what it caught for dinner 🤯, I edited out so it wasn’t to gory lol but he had a frog 🐸 , nature at its finest lol

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Re: What has been your highlight today, no matter how big or small? Come share

And more of the peach faced love birds hehe

@PeppyPatti @Adge @Mustang67 + everyone

 

 

 

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That’s the best @Oaktree , what an awesome incentive to study and does make it all worthwhile with a scholarship hey!! I hope lunch was good too 🙏

Haha @ENKELI I am glad you liked the song hehe, I’m still listening to it on repeat @TAB 😂


@Bunniekins I didn’t realise you loved frogs so much too!! I’ll definitely make a note of this! I have a link to share with you actually it’s about frog hotels hehe you might like it, let me know where is best to share I have lost the frog thread 🐸 but happy to share anywhere 🐸

Well done @Eve7 that is awesome!!! What an achievement 🤩🤩, they must have a good coach haha 😎

@Shaz51, I think I like your yellow ones out of the ones you posted the best! So vibrant 🥰

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Haha that possum pic is pretty cute @Mustang67 !! Gosh your niece might of got a fright though being in the dark lol.
Ahh I see! I find walks so regulating actually, I really do enjoy them. Your mums yard sounds like a lovely place to walk around being a big property however I think small walks to where you feel comfortable is key, building ever so slowly. Sometimes it isn’t even the length or distance you need to walk just a step outside and there’s always things to see I think, the more I have paid attention the more I have really noticed. Walks are so calming. Sometimes stillness in a chair- in the breeze/sun fresh air is also amazing, sometimes being still can attract birds also so definitely benefits anywhere you look 😉, definitely no loss stepping outside distance doesn’t matter 😎. Let me know of your adventures, would love to hear what you notice 🙏. You have a professional camera too, that’s awesome! I hear what you say with the phone being lighter aswell. Well you just never know maybe the camera will make an appearance ☺️

Sorry to hear about your back that’s no good. I hope it starts to feel better in the coming days.

haha glad you liked the song I’m still listening to it on repeat hahah

Yeah, I cooked a green chicken curry! I haven’t cooked a curry in so so long use to good curries regularly. What did you use to like cooking? Sorry your back has been playing up so much that you haven’t been able to cook as much 😕. I hope you can get back into cooking sometime soon 🙏

the physio and exercise plan sounds good let me know how that all goes if you want it definitely sounds like your back has been holding you back with things and I hope when you can get some relief you will be able to do some of the things you use to enjoy.

ps- also love the pic of the tree the birds were in that you saw! @tyme you know your fruit trees hey? ☺️

lovely connecting my friend really appreciate our chats as always 🫶💛

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@PeppyPatti Oh nol ! Don't tell me you bumped into that liar as well?

@Chasingsunsets @Adge @RiverSeal @AlwaysMyself @heartathome @ENKELI

Nasty peace of work i found that 'voice' to be.

False prophet comforts us walking to our doom while scaring us when we should keep going.

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Hey @DownMoreThanUp how are you doing? Guess what I was just about to respond to your posts, sorry for the delay but didn’t want to rush it 🙏, another post coming 🙏

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Awesome @Mustang67 new pet possum for the niece?

My daughter is like a beacon for animals. Now in her late 30s nothing has changed. Native Bees nest in her garden, and she built nests for the native doves under the house eaves.

I’ll have my work cut out for me if she ever buys a farm.

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@DownMoreThanUp Thanks for sharing with us, it would have been devastating seeing Zeta go. I can hear how hard that was for you and your wife. It takes tremendous courage to do what you both did, give her to a loving home that you know she’ll be safe. I can see how worried you were with her getting out and a bit of a toll on you having to stay outside, she did like to get up to mischief didn’t she!
I really hope beautiful shadow stays home I can see how much she means to you. She is a beautiful looking dog that’s for sure.

I hear you had some progress with how things were going but recently you have felt pretty down. It’s a massive thing to have to give away a pet you loved it is definitely understandable that you are feeling so much right now. Sane community are here with you, you are not alone.

Im glad you have some numbers and noted @RiverSeal post and @AlwaysMyself , take it easy my friend we sit with you 🙏

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@Adge yes, they certainly are all gorgeous.

I used to have budgies and canaries. I like listening to the sounds that birds make. I loved having my canary. My first one was yellow, and the second one was orange. I would find their singing very relaxing.

At one stage my previous previous partner started building an aviary as he wanted to put a variety of birds in there. I remember he definitely talked about getting some zebra finches. But then he started researching what bird can go together and read that they attract mice, which then attract snakes. And since my cat was bitten by a brown snake, he didn't want to do anything to attract more snakes. Where we were living backed on to a natural reserve, and the snakes could obviously get onto our property.. So the project was abandond. Lol

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haha @Glisten that is truely the best!! You literally made my night!! How good that your daughter loves animals and has a home for the bees and the doves lol. Does she get honey from the bees?

I know you like buildings things too, have you been making anything lately?

How’s your day been? 😊 So lovely to see you here! I’m off to sleep now but definitely keen to catchup with you the next time you are in to continue this conversation 😁

ps saw this dove or pigeon the other week, not sure I have seen one like this before and maybe not even a dove or pigeon 😂😂

@Adge @Mustang67 @PeppyPatti @ENKELI @DownMoreThanUp

 

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