Baby Birds

The past couple of months, September & October, it's been amazing watching all the baby birds. They're easy to spot because they're always a bit chubby & fluffy and they all squawk all the time at their mothers 'give me food, give me food, give me more food'. There are chubby little Redbrowed Finches darting around the backyard, little Honeyeaters learning how to fly, baby ducks being shepherded along by their parents for morning swim school, mother magpies feeding their ravenous babies, fluffy little Figbirds & a nest of Magpielarks who seemed to go from tiny to exploring around the tree the nest was in within a week or so. Interestingly once they were all out of the nest & on branches in the tree the nest was destroyed. I don't know though whether the mother does that or another bird.

 

Redbrowed finch

* 1. Redbrowed Finch (juv)

Redbrowed Finches

2. Redbrowed Finches (juv)

Butcherbird

* 3. Juvenile Butcherbird

Baby Superb Fairy Wren

* 4. Juvenile Fairy Wren

Baby Swamphen

* 5. Juvenile Swamphen

Bluefaced Honeyeater

* 6. Bluefaced Honeyeater (juv)

Bluefaced Honeyeater

* 7. Bluefaced Honeyeater (juv)

Blackfaced Cuckoo-shrike

* 8. Blackfaced Cuckoo-shrike

Friarbird (juv)

9. Juvenile Honeyeater

Bluefaced Honeyeater (juv)

* 10. Bluefaced Honeyeater (juv)

plover

11. Juvenile Plover

Figbird (juv)

* 12. Juvenile Figbird

Woodduck babies

13. Wood ducklings

Eastern Yellow Robin (juv)

* 14. Eastern Yellow Robin (juv)

Silver Gull (juv)

* 15. Silver Gull (juvenile)

Woodduck (juv)

* 16. Woodduck (juv)

Butcherbird (juv)

* 17. Juvenile Butcherbird

Friarbird (juv)

* 18. Juvenile Friarbird

Whitebreasted Swallow (juv)

19. Whitebreasted Swallow (juv)

Butcherbird (juv)

* 20. Juvenile Butcherbird

Redbacked Wren (juv)

* 21. Redbacked Wren (juv)

Superb Fairy Wren (juv)

* 22. Superb Fairy Wren (juv)

Superb Fairy Wren (juv)

* 23. Superb Fairy Wren (juv)

24. Redbrowed Finch (juv)

Purple Swamphen chick

* 25. Purple Swamphen chick

Eastern Yellow Robin

26. Eastern Yellow Robin

Lewins Honeyeater (juv)

27. Lewins Honeyeater (juv)

Magpie (juv)

* 28. Juvenile Magpie

Redcapped Plover (juv)

29. Redcapped Plover (juv)

Redbrowed Finches

* 30. Redbrowed Finches (juv)