We called into Kallista on the way home and blended in with the bus loads of tourists, who were feeding the wild birds there. So I took the opportunity to take some close up photos of Sulphur-crested Cockatoo, Crimson Rosella, Long Billed Corella.

 Sulphur-crested Cockatoo

 Crimson Rosella

Long Billed Corella

George Tindale Memorial Gardens

Back in August we took a trip to the George Tindale Memorial Gardens at 33 Sherbrooke Rd Kallista. The garden is managed by Parks Victoria with the assistance of the friends of the gardens and from what we saw while there it is in need of a lot of work. There were areas that were quite over grown and the weeds seemed to taking over.. It was however still easy to see that a lot of time, effort and love by George and Ruth had gone into the design and creation of this garden. Under the canopy of Mountain Ash trees, we found Camilla, Rhododendron, Cyclamen, Hellebore, Plectranthus, Luclulia, Azalea, Snow drops, Daffodils, John-quills just to name a few.
We came across a Kookaburra while at the gardens it was not worried at all by our presence it sat and watched us taking it's photo and allowed us to get quite close.