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The native birds are usually the ones with the most vivid and startling colours and often have beautiful voices. The Rainbow Lorikeets come in their thousands at this time of year feasting on all the native plant flowers. Late afternoon they all head up to the trees up the beach and although they look spectacular they are very noisy and rowdy. The Spangled Drongo is beautiful with it's tail shaped like a fishtail, red eye with a black pupil and the flourescent sheen on it's feathers but it makes a very loud, repetitive noise like wire being stretched. It is also a bit of a bully with other birds, as is the Butcherbird. However the Butcherbird, the Whistlers and the Shrikethrush all have beautiful singing voices. I love the Kookaburra and think it looks like a bird from another time and so uniquely different from any other bird I've seen, it also doesn't mind posing for a while for photos. I also really love the Eastern Yellow Robins but they are so hard to photograph, they are inquisitive and come and check things out but tend to take off just as you focus in on them. The Honeyeaters are a pretty sociable lot and will stay around for a bit, they love having a bath in the birdbath and come around 4pm every afternoon and plunge in and out of the water. And we all know how cheeky the Willywagtail is, darting about, waggling it's tail and teasing any other animals around, cats being their favourite I think. It's such a good feeling recording beautiful photographs because you can't tell them to not to move, show their good side or get them to wait while you focus in, but generally most of them don't mind posing for a few shots. |
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Laughing Kookaburra backyard pair and first chick born (Dacelo novaeguineae)
About a year ago my backyard Kookaburras started eating from my hand. I also noticed that they were looking for somewhere to nest, they kept sticking their heads in the parrot nesting boxes. Friends put up a Kookaburra nesting box and within 5 minutes they were in there checking it out. They spent a couple of weeks organising the nesting material and throwing out bits they didn't like and then mum laid 3 eggs over a period of days. Incubation began and then there was Spike, the cutest baby Kookaburra, this is his journey. |
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Juvenile Green Catbird (Ailuroredus crassirostis)
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Tawny Frogmouth with two chicks Neptune 4 & Neptune 5 (2015)
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Tawny Frogmouth family (Podargus strigoides)
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Tawny Frogmouth with juvenile named Neptune the 2nd 2013 (Podargus strigoides)
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Welcome Swallow |
Welcome Swallow |
Nankeen Night-heron |
Sacred Kingfisher |
Azure Kingfisher |
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Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus funereus)
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Laughing Kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguineae)
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* 1. King Parrot (male) |
* 2. King Parrot (female) |
* 3. Rainbow Lorikeet |
* 4. Rainbow Bee-eater |
* 5. Juv. Masked Lapwing |
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* 6. Black Cockatoo |
* 7. Superb Fairy Wren |
* 8. Green Catbird |
* 9. White-bellied Cuckoo-shrike |
* 10. Red-backed Wren |
* 11. Bush Stone Curlew |
* 12. Little Corella |
* 13. Common Koel (male) |
* 14. Mistletoebird |
* 15. Noisy Pitta |
* 16. Galah |
* 17. Wood-swallows |
* 18. White-cheeked Honeyeater |
* 19. Channel-billed Cuckoo |
* 20. Scarlet Honeyeater |
* 21. Woodswallow nest |
* 22. Laughing Kookaburra |
* 23. Leaden Flycatcher |
* 24. Pied Currawong |
* 25. Laughing Kookaburra |
* 26. Yellow Wagtail (rare) |
* 27. Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo |
* 28. Eastern Yellow Robin |
* 29. Red-backed Wren |
* 30. Little Corella |
* 31. Sacred Kingfisher |
* 32. Rainbow Lorikeets |
* 33. Rainbow Lorikeet |
* 34. Coucal Pheasant |
* 35. Pied Butcherbird |
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* 37. Blue-faced Honeyeater |
* 38. Striped Honeyeater |
* 39. Noisy Friarbird |
* 40. Lewins Honeyeater |
* 41. Juv. Pied Butcherbird |
* 42. Red-browed Finch |
* 43. Scaly-breasted Lorikeets |
* 44. White-throated Gerygone |
* 45. Satin Bowerbird (female) |
* 46. Black Cockatoo |
* 47. Superb Fairy Wren |
* 48. Little Corella |
* 49. White-breasted Swallow |
* 50. Satin Bowerbird (male) |
* 51. Pied Butcherbird |
* 53. Rainbow Lorikeet |
* 53. Olive-backed Oriole |
* 54. Restless Flycatcher |
* 55. Torresian Crows |
* 56. Silvereye |
* 57. Willy Wagtail |
* 58. Rainbow Lorikeet |
* 59. Blue-faced Honeyeater |
* 60. Welcome Swallow |
* 61. Superb Fairy Wren |
* 62. Rufous Whistler |
* 63. Gala |
* 64. White-throated Gerygone |
* 65. Figbird (female) |
* 66. Pied Currawong |
* 67. Superb Fairy Wren |
* 68. Striated Pardalote |
* 69. Scaly-breasted Lorikeet |
* 70. Brown Honeyeater |
* 71. Little Corella |
* 72. Eastern Rosella |
* 73. Figbird (female) |
* 74. Imm. Figbird |
* 75. Scarlet Honeyeater |
* 76. Spangled Drongo |
* 77. Galah |
* 78. Fan-tailed Cuckoo |
* 79. Brown Honeyeater |
* 80. Rainbow Lorikeet |
* 81. Rainbow Lorikeets |
* 82. Grey Fantail |
* 83. Restless Flycatcher |
* 84. Galah |
* 85. Sulphur-crested Cockatoo |
86. Bush Stone Curlew |
* 87. Sulpher-crested Cockatoo |
* 88. Grey Shrike-thrush |
* 89. Rainbow Lorikeet |
* 90. Figbird (male) |
* 91. Eastern Rosella |
* 92. Brown Thornbill |
* 93. Laughing Kookaburra |
* 94. Mistletoebird |
* 95. Little Shrike-thrush |
*96. Galah |
* 97. Kookaburras |
* 98. Little Wattlebird |
* 99. Bush-stone Curlew |
* 100. Varied Triller |
* 101. Grey Butcherbird |
* 102. Pheasant Coucal |
* 103. Superb Fairy Wren |
* 104. Rainbow Lorikeets |
* 105. Rufous Whistler |
* 106. Eastern Whipbird |
* 107. Sacred Kingfishe |
* 108. Double-barred Finch |
* 109. Eastern Rosella |
* 110. Magpie-lark |
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