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Blue-Cheeked Yellow Rosella

Platycerus elegans - race flaveolus

Description:

Blue cheeked rosella with a yellow body, blue wings and tail.

Habitat:

Woodland in Leeton

Notes:

This guy was sitting on a branch on the side of a dirt road. It very happily sat there for me to get some photos.

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4 Comments

KerryHawkins
KerryHawkins 10 years ago

Thanks kdpicturemaker. I was so excited to spot this one. We were driving down a dirt road in Leeton NSW and I was telling my husband stop, stop!!! Poor thing had no idea why. I couldn't believe my eyes.

kdpicturemaker
kdpicturemaker 10 years ago

Not such an easy bird to find as one might think. Great photos & spotting this one KerryH.

KerryHawkins
KerryHawkins 10 years ago

Thanks Leanne. So pleased to see this bird for the first time ever.

LeanneGardner
LeanneGardner 10 years ago

Love this spotting Kerry. He's a beauty!

KerryHawkins
Spotted by
KerryHawkins

New South Wales, Australia

Spotted on Jul 21, 2013
Submitted on Sep 21, 2013

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