Animals and Birds

I've seen huge beautiful cranes or Storks our here several times. Today it was 6 foot tall stilt legged birds with Stork like beaks. The beaks were yellow like a goose's and their feathers were mostly white with some black and grey on the wings and about the face. 

They are so big when they fly but graceful in a languorous way with their long legs dragging behind them.

The other type I've seen is all black with only Circle of white on the wings. Black heads and black long beaks and looked to be 7 feet tall or taller! They were standing in a small lake fishing.

Other cool birds I've seen are hawks hunting and a bird with powder blue feathers on it's wings. Tonight at bang bang camp I saw three birds that may have been parrots with pinkish red underwings flying at sunset.

There are some crows or ravens and some mockingbirds with black and white wings that are very noisy in the morning.

Other animal notes 
Kangaroos- I've seen Grey and Red. They look very much like the termite mounds which are everywhere when they stand still
and the termite mounds are grey in some areas and red in others where the dirt is red. Isn't evolution amazing!

I've seen dead wild pigs by the road but never a live one. They are black and the biggest was about 6 feet long.

Today I saw feral cats two grey tabbies.

And what about termites anyway? Their mounds are so many here- just where I can see they are every 10 feet or so apart as far as I can see! How many billions of billions of them must there be out here?

written by  Mike_Veine on August 13, 2012 from Cloncurry, Australia
from the travel blog: Mike's Magical Mystery Tour
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