Cleland Wildlife Park

I volunteer one day a week at Cleland Wildlife Park, and today was the volunteers AGM and Christmas Barbeque.  After business (and lunch) was over I took a stroll around the park with my camera.

This Red Kangaroo didn't seem too impressed having his photo taken, but the Koala was pretty chilled. (Aren't they always?) 

I went to the newly refurbished woodland aviary and got photos of a cute Zebra Finch, a Banded Lapwing and its week old chick, a beautiful Princess Parrot, and a Bar-shouldered Dove taking in the sunshine.

My next stop was going to be the forest aviary, and on the way I passed through the Emu and Yellow-footed Rock Wallaby enclosures, and almost tripped over a Southern Brown Bandicoot.

In the aviary I saw Australian King Parrot, Musk Lorikeet and Buff-banded Rail.

On the way back to the car, I heard, then saw a Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo, and got a close up of one of the Tasmanian Devils.

 

Special visitors to Adelaide Airport

Today saw a couple of special planes visit Adelaide Airport.  There was quite a crowd of plane-spotters at the local park. 

First was an Antonov An-124 Cargo plane UR-82029 of Ukrainian Antonov Airlines.  We don't see these very often in Adelaide.

This was followed by an Airbus A321 NEO of UK based luxury travel company TCS World Travel. This aircraft is fitted out to carry only 64 passengers - no legroom issue here!