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Gday...

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-11-18/emus-take-to-longreach-streets/5098222

Cheers - John



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Cute! And a photographer's dream.

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We have just come back from Longreach.
They were all over the place.
Just strolling around.
Brolgas too. Had to laugh when we saw Brolgas in Brolga St

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whats a Brolgas ??

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milo wrote:

whats a Brolgas ??

 Gday...

brolga cooper.jpg

cheers - John



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Milo haven't you heard the Aussie Christmas carol, The Carol of the Birds by John Wheeler???

 

 

1. Out on the plains the brolgas are dancing
Lifting their feet like warhorses prancing
Up to the sun the woodlarks go winging
Faint in the dawn light echoes their singing
Orana! Orana! Orana to Christmas Day.

2. Down where the tree ferns grow by the river
There where the waters sparkle and quiver
Deep in the gullies bell-birds are chiming
Softly and sweetly their lyric notes rhyming
Orana! Orana! Orana to Christmas Day.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
3. Friar birds sip the nectar of flowers
Currawongs chant in wattle tree bowers
In the blue ranges lorikeets calling
Carols of bush birds rising and falling
Orana! Orana! Orana to Christmas Day.


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That song brought back many lovely memories of my childhood christmases.   We were taught that song in primary school.

When we were in Longreach last  year we saw kangaroos in the streets around town.  

 

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uBOhFCL-hA



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never heard of that either but good poem, song..

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biggrinStayed in the Ilfracombe C/park 6/7 weeks ago and there were a dozen or so emus and chicks there then. Undoubtedly their food situation has become harder



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