Morning at Moonlight Head

I have been at Moonlight all this week with my four year old son. Waking close to first light most mornings and watching the wildlife with Louis it is not difficult to understand the pleasure that this simple activity provides.

Kookaburras sit on posts searching for an early breakfast, then fly back to the trees to swop upwards onto their selected branch with their family. Magpies craw, a parent has two offspring in tow complete with fluffy chick down show their young how to dig for breakfast. Parakeets resplendent in well preened colours balance delicately on prickly thistles to extract seed heads. Nectar collectors flutter in and out of the fuschia flowers with their long curved probing beaks extracting the goodness.

So the birds provide a great show. They are though complemented by the kangaroos, numbers at Moonlight have increased as the availability of pasture grasses has improved. Watching Kangaroos at Moonlight brings immense pleasure, spotting a joey emerging tentatively from a pouch or two males checking out who is dominant, or just feeding before bouncing off, often silhouetted against the skyline remains a magical sight, though Louis will quickly explain that these are “his Kangaroos”.


It is a magical sight, very refreshing to just watch.