Within the Dandenong Ranges, about an hour east of Melbourne, is a stunning garden called Cloudehill. It is one of the three display garden nurseries of the Diggers Club. The other two gardens are the Garden of St Erth in Blackwood and Heronswood in Dromana. I think Cloudehill is one of the most beautiful gardens I have been to and as an added bonus it is usually full of birds. While Mrs Gap Year wanders around and then hits the nursery shop or the cafe to read the paper I can go deeper into the gullies at the bottom of the gardens and look for birds. On this occasion I went to find the resident lyrebirds but for the first time I did not hear or see them. I did find a rather large and noisy flock of Yellow Tailed Black Cockatoos – shooting into the canopy was difficult but with Lightroom the images could be salvaged.
Yellow Tailed Black Cockatoo
Yellow Tailed Black Cockatoo II – several were chewing on the bark of this tree.
Silvereye
Juvenile Silvereye
Juvenile Spinebill
Juvenile Spinebill II
Juvenile Spinebill III
Juvenile Spinebill IV
Part 2 – The Wonderful Gardens of Cloudehill
Coming Soon:
Part 3 – Colours of Cloudehill
Filed under: Birds, Victoria Tagged: Australia, Australian Birds, Bird Photography, Cloudehill Gardens, Dandenong Ranges, Eastern Spinebill, Nature Photography, Olinda, Photography, Silvereye, Victoria, Yellow Tailed Black Cockatoo
