Native Birds

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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* 1. Rufous Whistler	* 2. Spangled Drongo	* 3. Rainbow Lorikeet	* 4. White-breasted Swallows	* 5. Laughing Kookaburra
* 6. Bush Stone Curlew	* 7. Sulphur-crested Cocktoo	* 8. Rainbow Lorikeet	* 9. Mistletoebird	* 10. Bush Stone Curlew
* 11. Galah	* 12. Rainbow Lorikeet	* 13. Galah	* 14. Channel-billed Cuckoo	* 15. Scarlet Honeyeater
* 16. Superb Fairy Wren (fem)	* 17. Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo	* 18. Eastern Yellow Robin	* 19. Red-backed Wren	* 20. Superb Fairy Wren (juv)
* 21. Rainbow Lorikeet nest	*22. Rainbow Lorikeets	* 23. Galah	* 24. Coucal Pheasant	* 25. Pied Butcherbird
* 26. White-cheeked Rosella	* 27. Blue-faced Honeyeater	* 28. Rainbow Lorikeet (juvenile)	* 29. Little Friarbird	* 30. Lewins Honeyeater
* 31. Juvenile Rainbow Lorikeet	32. Honeyeater	* 33. Scaly-breasted Lorikeets	* 34. Varied Triller	* 35. Lewins Honeyeater
* 36. Black Cockatoo	* 37. Superb Fairy Wren	* 38. Little Wren	* 39. White-breasted Swallows	* 40. Wattlebird
* 41. Butcherbird	* 42. Rainbow Lorikeet	* 43. Olive-backed Oriole	* 44. Fan-tailed Cuckoo	* 45. Welcome Swallow
* 46. Silvereye	* 47. Willy Wagtail	* 48. Brown Honeyeater	* 49. Eastern Rosella	* 50. Welcome Swallow
* 51. Brown Honeyeater	52. Rufous Whistler	* 53. Figbird (male)	* 54. Scaly-breasted Lorikeet	* 55. Figbird (female)
* 56. Eastern Rosella	* 57. Superb Fairy Wren	* 58. Magpielark	* 59. Scaly-breasted Lorikeet	* 60. Honeyeater
* 61. Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike	* 62. Eastern Rosella	* 63. Figbird (female)	* 64. Red Wattlebird	* 65. Scarlet Honeyeater
* 66. Spangled Drongo	* 67. Galah	* 68. Fan-tailed Cuckoo	* 69. Brown Honeyeater	* 70. Tree Sparrow
* 71. Black Cockatoo	* 72. Grey Fantail	* 73. Eastern Whipbird	* 74. Galah	* 75. Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
76. Bush Stone Curlew	* 77. Magpie	* 78. Grey Shrike-thrush	* 79. Rainbow Lorikeet	* 80. Figbird (male)
* 81. Eastern Rosella	* 82. Brown Thornbill	* 83. Laughing Kookaburra	* 84. Mistletoebird	* 85. Little Shrike-thrush
*86. Galah	* 87. Kookaburras	* 88. Kookaburra	* 89. Pied Currawong	* 90. Varied Triller
* 91. Grey Butcherbird	* 92. Pheasant Coucal	* 93. Laughing Kookaburra	* 94. Rufous Whistler	* 95. Laughing Kookaburras
* 96. Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike	* 97. Juvenile Rainbow Lorikeet	* 98. Double-barred Finch	* 99. Eastern Rosella	* 100. Little Corella

Rufous Whistler