Yeah! 😊 We could definitely hear them but no sightings unfortunately!! They probably are named quite correctly... noisy & hidden in scrub 😅 ~ K

Thank you so much for watching! 😊

It sounds like you had a magical time! Dryandra is truly a special place. I'm a bit jealous you saw a Numbat!! I'm just wondering how you camped with a rental car?? Did you rent camping gear too or took it with you?? It would have been really nice to camp there & I looked into renting tents but came up empty handed. ~ K

Hi there! 😀 I asked Nimal about the naming (as we did name them Twenty-eights in our first two videos) and he said that the sub species of Twenty-eight & Port Lincoln Parrots cross over between Dryandra to Perth Hills so in this video he named them the broader species of Australian Ringneck. Anyway... I love the name Twenty-eight!! It's such a sweet name. Reminds me of the Pardalotes in Tasmania called the Forty-spotted 😀 Just really nice names for birds!! In Victoria we don't have any cute names, just identifiable names. That's amazing that you haven't seen a WA Echidna yet!! You'll have to get to Dryandra and maybe that little guy is still out & about during the day! 😀 ~ K

@@jeanettefuller6354 Now that would have been great!! 👍

Those Cockatoos were definitely one of the main highlights of the trip 😀 Thanks for watching! ~ K

Thanks! 😀 You live in a wonderful part of the world!! ~ K

@naturephotographychallenge I think we all live in wonderful places...we are so fortunate being able to experience all the different landscapes and wildlife ❤️ (if only we can afford to hahaha)

Thank you so much Bernie!! 😀 Yes that photo of the parrots on the fence was one of my favourite photos of the trip! It's nice to get one of those environmental shots and wooden fences always look good! ~ K

Thank you so much!! ❤ We wish we could have stayed much longer as there was so many new things for us to see as tourists to WA and many things we missed out on. You're very lucky to live in such a beautiful part of the world. I'll have to check out your channel & check out all the places we should go next time!! And if you ever need any bird identification, feel free to send us a photo (Nimal's the bird nerd and he knows them all... even those little brown birds that all look the same to me 🤣) ~ K

That must have been amazing!!! 😀 I love Echidnas... but to see one so very close & actually touch it with your foot must have been one of those super special moments!! ❤ ~ K

Thank you so much! ❤

Thank you so much!! Welcome to the channel and I hope you enjoy our other videos. 😀 We always name plants, animals, birds & most insects (if we can formerly identify them). Nimal is a Botanist so plants are his "thing" so it's very important that I get the names correct in every video. Our trip to WA was in September (note to self: must remember to always put a month in the description...my fault but will fix that now!) and the wildflowers were superb!! We were really looking forward to seeing all the plants on this trip as WA has the most amazing flora!! ~ K

@naturephotographychallenge I worked as a horticulturist at Kings Park Botanic Gardens and have a lifelong interest in wildflowers, birds, nature and photography, so your channel ticks all of my boxes. Next visit to WA try to factor in a trip to the northern sandplains in early spring around Eneabba/Mount Lesueur. Roughly 270km north of Perth and an easy drive. I'm told it is the second most biodiverse place on earth (so far 7,480 species of plants, animals, insects, invertebrates etc identified) more diversity than rainforests and the Great Barrier Reef. I believe only the Cape Province in Sth Africa has more species. I've done a field trip there with overseas botanists and they are gobsmacked at what you can find. A botanical wonderland. Plenty of birds as well. The other area worth visiting is the Stirling Ranges near Mount Barker. Stunning scenery and incredible botanical and avian diversity.

@ we wanted to get to the Stirling Ranges but just didn’t have the time (mostly due to lack of accommodation in those areas so we couldn’t stay). Next WA trip will definitely be north of Perth so I’ll make a note of that location 😁 Thanks!

Oh wow!! 😲 That would be amazing to know that Barking Owls are right outside your door somewhere!! I hope you get to see them one of these days!! Brilliant birds!! ~ K

Oh yes!! You are totally correct!! We used multiple different formats on this trip which is a bit of a pain when trying to put clips together!! Also one of our GoPros on this trip had a major meltdown & produced extremely rough footage (it was horrible!! loads we couldn't use!!) I noticed in both this video & the Cheynes Beach video that we had that awful stuttery footage in a few panning shots. You are right, it was a case of some footage being 60ffs & some in 25ffs & the whole thing got a bit mucked up in editing & exporting. But since this trip we've purchased an Osmo Pocket 3 and DJI mics so the next videos should be back to 4k. 😀 ~ K

Yes that was quite amazing!! They certainly looked happy chowing down on those Banskia cones in amongst all that noise. And all the Black Cockatoos that we saw along the trip looked very content & happy 😀 ~ K

It's just awesome!! I really fell in love with Augusta but the whole area is amazing! And so much to see that it would take a lifetime to truly know the whole South West ❤~ K

Thanks Zona! 😀 We had the best time! ~ K

Fantastic!! I do love an adventurous Echidna! 😀 They are lots of fun to watch! You're very lucky to live in such a gorgeous part of Victoria ~ K

Thanks so much for watching!! ❤

Awesome!! 😀 I think those Banksias at Perth Airport may be quite an attraction for a lot of birds! ~ K

He was quite a surprise!! Hiding under a tree. Great to see 😀 ~ K

It's so great!! And there were way more species that we never managed to see 😀 ~ K

Thanks so much! 😀 Happy 2025 to you too!

@ Thank You 😊

Dryandra was great! We wish we could have stayed there or had more time to explore more of the area. Would have been great to see a Numbat too but the Echidna was such a highlight 😀 Great spot & so happy that this beautiful area remains in amongst all the farmland ~ K

Dryandra was such a wonderful place ❤ We would have loved to stay longer. ~ K

​@@naturephotographychallenge It is pity you didn't get to see numbats, sometimes it does take some searching (time of day etc).

Yes it's a place that needs a few days the explore. We also didn't have much time there either and staying 20 minutes away was fine but it would have been so much better to have stayed on location. Great though! 😀 ~ K

The wildflowers in September were so pretty!! Those orchids were stunning and they were everywhere 😀 Nimal's Aussie bird count for 2024 was 383 but you easily topped him with all the travel locations & species that you saw in Australia last year. ~ K

@@naturephotographychallenge Hmm... 383 "only? You were at almost ALL the places we were (apart from Cape York/Iron Range NP), many places a bit longer getting "all" those difficult birds plus he got in a few pelagic trips if I remember correctly. Well, O'Reilly's were out of season for you, that must have an impact. And Tasmania was more or less a working trip the first time, but still... We dipped and dipped on Rockwarbler, to my enormous disappointment. The last days, visiting my old class mate, actually gave us a last new bird (Variable Fairywren), so we did get new birds even in the last sigh of the trip. And we got ONE albatross thanks to the speed boat ride to the southern tip of Bruny Island (White-headed, former known as Shy) and we got all but one of the Tasmanian endemics (Scrubtit, we didn't really think we would get that one and we didn't) much thanks to the guided day at Inala. After 69 exhausting days of birding and travel, the list ended up with 431 seen birds total (428 for me) of which 378 were Lifers. I think we did OK! Insomnia still bad. Working with photos when I'm awake enough and my tired eyes isn't full of sand. Slow going! Day before X-mas I had to go to the vet with my oldest Parrotlet bcs his health nosedived (I'm so glad he made it through our trip and I had 1,5 month to say goodbye) and he is no more. Very much missed by us and his unofficial partner (that one is 7 yo now). Unofficial since they were both males, and the survivor didn't know how to groome correctly, thus chewing off the feathers on head and neck. They had to be separated. Anyway, the Xmas holliday was a bummer in a few aspects, that's for sure.

Thank you! 😀

That Bananamobile was great! 😀 We had some fun times together! 😎 ~ K

Isn't it always the way though!! We've spent lots of time searching for certain birds & animals only to meet a tourist who (of course) sees it in 2 seconds 🤪 As in the echidna... we were just super lucky to be in the right place at the right time 😀... with cameras in hand!! So cute!! ~ K

@@naturephotographychallenge Yeh that'd be right! You were tourists after all😊

@@wildhomevideos 😅

Thanks!! I'm really looking forward to starting on the next videos. Should be good! 😀 ~ K

Thank you so much! 😀 I'm so happy that you have been enjoying our channel. We do have a new video coming out hopefully in the next few days (last one of the WA series). We've been out & about over the Christmas/New Year season so editing videos has been a bit slow.... but now we're back (saying that though... we're just about to head off again 😀 LOL!). Happy New Year!! I think 2025 should be a great one for birdwatching!! ~ K

It was my favourite spot to visit on this trip 😀 I'm currently working on the last of the series where we visit Dryandra and the Perth Hills. Dryandra was really nice. Would have been lovely to stay there longer but we only had two visits. We saw lots of interesting birds & animals (missed out on the Numbats though which was a bit disappointing 🙂) ~ K

Thanks so much! That Western Bristlebird was such a highlight!! Of course it took all the way to the end of our trip to finally see it. Cute little bird with a lot of personality 😀

Thanks so much! Australia has such diverse landscapes & wildlife! We look forward to travelling even more around our country so hope that you hang around to see much more! 😀

Thank you 😀 Ahhh Nimal's tripods!! haha! He's had a few now but this is his biggest Benro tripod. It was quite windy that day so he may not have extended the legs as long as they can go. I'm never sure what he's doing when it comes to tripods but I'm just glad that they work, the legs stay on & he doesn't lose any parts!! hahaha!!! ~ K

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Wonderful! 😀 You sound like you had a fabulous time with those beautiful horses

@ did. Remembered the leaders horse it was Patrick. Hobart was lovely but wouldn’t go back again.

That sounds like lots of fun! 😀

Thank you! It was so lucky to see him as we were only hearing him somewhere in the bushes..... and then suddenly he popped up & gave us a show! It was great! I love his little bristley moustache 😀

It was a really fun part of our trip 😀 The whales were fantastic!! The birds were stunning! It would have been great to stay there longer. You're so lucky to have been there a number of times (it's a bit far away from us to revisit easily 🤣) ~ K