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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* 7. Kookaburra

* 8. Galah

* 10. Scaleybreasted Lorikeet

* 12. Yellowtailed Black Cockatoo

* 13. Blackfaced Cuckoo-shrike

* 15. Superb Fairy Wren (juv)

* 17. Bluefaced Honeyeater

* 18. Little Corella

* 20. Lewins Honeyeater

22. Honeyeater

* 23. Eastern Yellow Robin

* 25. Rainbow Lorikeet

* 27. Superb Fairy Wren

* 28. Little Wren

* 30. Wattlebird

* 32. Yellowtailed Black Cockatoo

* 33. Rosella & Pigeon

* 35. Black-faced Cuckoo Shrike

* 37. Redbacked Wren

* 38. Brown Honeyeater

* 40. Welcome Swallow

* 42. Redbacked Wren (female)

* 43. Figbird (male)

44. Honeyeater

* 45. Superb Fairy Wren

* 47. Eastern Yellow Robin

* 48. Rufous Whistler

* 50. Honeyeater

* 52. Whitebreasted Swallows

* 53. Figbird

* 54. Red Wattlebird

55. Scarlet Honeyeater

* 57. Magpie

* 58. Grey Shrike-thrush

* 59. Baby Bluefaced Honeyeater

* 60. Magpielark

* 62. New Holland Honeyeater

* 63. Figbird

* 64. Rainbow Lorikeet

* 65. Yellowtailed Black Cockatoo