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Dad and his chicks taking a dip in the dam. SE

How nice to have some discussion of rheas! Gee, emus will 'beak you' -- grab and twist for a second -- but I've never seen anything like Kevin's 'lock-on-and-hold'! SE

This is 2010 https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/novaehollandiae-woodwardi-rothschildi.361037/

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/planet-rothschildi.714603/

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/mating-season-in-australia.641934/ Page 4, Post 38 has me playing 'Gobble that Prune' with Greedy. Wow, this is sooooo far back!! And Page 24 has data that we've not found anywhere: resident female emus communicate with birds other locations. The...

'Mating Season in Australia' is a big one. So is 'Planet Rothschildi.' But there must be a hundred or more, dating back to about 2010. I will do some patient searching. Supreme Emu

See how they've figured out that nice efficient scooping technique to drink? Now watch again. Identifying individual birds is the basis of this project. It's just so hard. This morning at dawn, two of these chicks, now two-and-half, were here. Now watch one more time. See the chick second...

Finally, a little of the sort of work we used to do a lot of. Here's a photo of a clutch. Watch carefully.

This is, I think, the oldest photo from Planet Rothschildi. Perhaps November or December, 2008.

I can't find my oldest post. Here is an excerpt from either Notes One or Notes Two: 'Notes from the Homeland,' June, 2010: 'Last week, I crawled on my belly the length of a fallen gum to view some emus that I saw before they saw me --none too usual. A male and eight chicks were grazing in the...

These are 'first-autumn' black heads. It's fig time -- March? -- but before the autumn rains have brought up 'fresh pick.'

9 years, Finiie? There are almost none of us left. I was thinking about how old Uno Chick is in the photo. Let's do this: there's grass visible. So it's not late spring or summer or early autumn. Uno is a black head -- she has luxuriant black pin feathers on her neck and head. But she's not...

Really really hot day? Let's go down to the dam for a swim! Emus love to swim. Their Dads take them swimming as chicks. This clutch is Toosh Toosh's. It's their second summer -- so they are about 17-19 months old. They have been independent of their Dad for about 9-11 months at this point, and...

This is Uno Chick. How old is she? Can anyone work it out?

Greedy Emu is one of only two ever 'double Alpha' birds observed here. The other was her father, the legendary Eric the Emu. Greedy could -- and would -- whup any thousand million billion tame emus she encountered. I've seen her attack a mob of a dozen wild emus (at the fig tree) and drive them...

One rarely, while watching birds, get to see them from the back. Here is a pair of scarlet-breasted robins, I assume a male and female, attacking their images in the mirror of the 'greenhouse.' So you can see both front of rear of both male and female.

Toosh Toosh Emu is unmistakeable. His fine tail plumage makes him one of only two or three recognisable emus of the Project. The two sookey females here for breakfast at dawn this morning are his chicks.

Torresian crow. Check the background, readers. U.S. folks can learn a lot about emus from the backgrounds of my photos. Emus grow and live and breed and travel according to the seasons. A hatchling, for example, begins to become a 'black head' at the beginning of its second season. The bird...

This mob of brumbies -- mustangs -- I've only ever seen three times. The footage is poor because it's deep dusk. These horses have been living in the National Park for decades and decades. But they come across to my block, as do the emus, from the Park.

What follows is a gleefully random dump of stuff from my Pictures file.