{"id":779,"date":"2009-10-14T05:59:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-14T05:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/paul\/post\/Penguins-cockatoos-and-other-sights-in-Melbourne.aspx"},"modified":"2026-06-30T04:24:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T11:24:38","slug":"penguins-cockatoos-and-other-sights-in-melbourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/penguins-cockatoos-and-other-sights-in-melbourne\/","title":{"rendered":"Penguins, cockatoos, and other sights in Melbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Fall really is crazy travel season for us &#8211; a week after returning from our trip to Ireland and Poland and now we&#39;re in Australia for a few weeks. This evening we went for a bird-watching walk around Albert Park with our good friend, partner, and fellow MVP Greg Linwood, who&#39;s our host while we&#39;re here. We saw&nbsp;20+ species of birds (of which 17 were new to me), including 3 species of cockatoo and, finally, my first glimpse of wild PENGUINS!<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">I&#39;ve adored penguins for a very long time and it&#39;s always been a dream of mine to see them in the wild rather than a zoo. Well, today another bucket-list item was ticked off. There&#39;s a little-known colony of <\/font><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Little_Penguin\"><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Little Penguins<\/font><\/a><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\"> right in Melbourne itself, at the end of St. Kilda Pier (<\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/stkildapenguins.com.au\/skp\/\"><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">here&#39;s a website<\/font><\/a>&nbsp;<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">with some info). <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">I&#39;ve uploaded a bunch of photos to Facebook, that you can view at <span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/album.php?aid=2040551&amp;id=1293146061&amp;l=f6e55ca540\">http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/album.php?aid=2040551&amp;id=1293146061&amp;l=f6e55ca540<\/a> (no account needed).<\/span> <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<span><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Here are a few examples (Eastern Rosella, Sulphur-Crested Cockatoo, Little Penguin).<\/font><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<span><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\"><\/font><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">&nbsp;<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/wp-content\/uploads\/\\L2009\/\\L10\/\\Lsmallp1010923.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"314\" height=\"223\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/wp-content\/uploads\/\\L2009\/\\L10\/\\Lsmallp1010935.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"314\" height=\"195\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/wp-content\/uploads\/\\L2009\/\\L10\/\\Lsmallp1010966.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"314\" height=\"235\" \/><\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">How excellent &#8211; penguins!!! :-)<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\"><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fall really is crazy travel season for us &#8211; a week after returning from our trip to Ireland and Poland and now we&#39;re in Australia for a few weeks. 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