A pair of pelicans at work yesterday morning.
I like to think the first shot one is casting a spell, while in the second the other pelican shows genuine surprise.
Or it could just be singing Mnah Mnah...
A pair of pelicans at work yesterday morning.
I like to think the first shot one is casting a spell, while in the second the other pelican shows genuine surprise.
Or it could just be singing Mnah Mnah...
Where did my croissant go? It's a mystery.
A collection of Red-backed Fairywrens from the weekend. One male in breeding colours, and three females.
Went out birding this afternoon and ended up at the Samsonvale cemetery, by Lake Samsonvale. I spotted a few birds there, and then this lone Green Catbird, which was most unexpected as they are usually rainforest birds and this was very much scrubby bushland.
what do the experts say: wallaby or pademelon?
i think it’s a pademelon, given its size?
edit: oh, may have found it with some GPS magic. according to the GPS this photo was taken in animal enclosure #20 of the Bonorong Wildlife Sanctuary. That enclosure is listed as “Wombat/Pademelons” on their map: https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d455a81b10e32d5857f310/47419c75-c938-4ef5-9ed6-a6f974347c96/Bonorong%2BTopo%2BMap%2B-%2Bv34.aicrop.png?format=2500w
It was slightly warmer this morning on campus (12ºC) so some of the frogs were out (they tend not to come out when it's colder than that).
Here's one of the two I found (the other was in a bad spot, photographically).
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It's been a while since I photographed my local Brown Thornbills, so here's one I just shot from the veranda.
A Noisy Miner on a red flower on campus last week.
Big crops for a little bird. These White-headed Sittella (now classified as Varied Sittella) were high up in one of the trees in my front yard a few minutes ago, searching for grubs and bugs in the bark.
Spotted just now as I got home from work, a female White-throated Treecreeper, on a rock.
The male looks similar, but doesn't have the orange spots on the cheeks.
Hello, from this little Grey Fantail.
I went for a wander down to the creek and back, and while down there, I managed to photograph two tiny Striated Pardalotes that were busy calling nearby.
I had a hot tip from someone at work that there was an "eagle type bird nesting in a tree by the AFL fields".
Sure enough, upon checking this morning, I found a nest, and its owner, a Brahminy Kite, high in a Kauri Pine.
A pair of Willie Wagtails I came across yesterday.
I went back this afternoon in the hope of finding more of them feeding by the road.
No such luck. However, I saw the same flock of five from this morning, as they flew over me, alighted in a tree, stayed there for a minute or two before flying on.
Every year when I'm able, I take part in the annual Glossy Black Cockatoo survey. These birds are classified as Vulnerable to Endangered. Each year, I find evidence of the birds but no birds. The survey is usually Sept.
So this year, I decided to head out a month and a bit earlier than the official survey, and it paid off. I spotted a small flock of 6 birds, and managed to have a close encounter with a male/female pair feeding.
On my lunchtime walk today, I spotted a Golden Whistler, and a Rufous Shrikethrush and one of the local King Parrots (who seemed to think I should have seed, but since I was out on a walk, I did not).
A sample of the ten tiny treefrogs I found this morning.
Eastern Dwarf Tree Frogs, mostly perched on guinea grass.