This is an outstanding bird pic taken by Portland photographer, Nita Tonkin.
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Yellow Tail Black Cockatoo. Not great shots but I’ve been trying for ages to get some. I hear them a lot but rarely see them.
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Dusky Woodswallow?
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Hardheads BH snapped on Coolart’s lagoon today. Hopefully they stay put and steer clear of the duck killing fields in late April. They are listed as vulnerable, which supposedly means they are protected, a listing the Sporting Shooters have challenged. As a result, Hardheads won’t be in the shooters bags, no, they’ll be left to suffer and die. No idea why this exercise in ritual cruelty is allowed to continue.
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My sentiments exactly.
Lovely photo.
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Nice photos, but you can keep the blinking noisy miner!
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Buff-banded Rail, Stony Point. BH’s patience paid off today when she hung around after seeing something unfamiliar darting into the mangroves. This notoriously shy bird briefly popped back out after a while, allowing a very excited BH to snap a “lifer”.
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Now if you’re keen to see a Little Penguin or 2 but can’t be bothered hanging round to dusk for the Penguin Parade you could do what BH did today and train your eyes on the holes around the boardwalk at The Nobbies Visitor Centre. Plenty on display if you look hard enough.
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#Crimson Chat, Point Nepean. The birders reckon this chat is lost. Normally it’s found in dry shrubby inland habitats, NW Victoria only and Central Australia across to WA. Definitely not supposed to be at Point Nepean. The park has been invaded by birders eager to catch a glimpse of this latest celebrity bird and BH was in today’s dawn shift. Seem to be an unusually high number of reports of birds out of place this year.
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Wow…great photo. Beautiful bird…& it’s incredible that you saw it there.
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Don’t get many of these out our way, and he refused to come into any decent light.
Iso 12,800 and 1/10th shutter does not maketh a great photo of a bird. But it’s all I could get.
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#150 Frickin’ Wedge-tailed Eagle - Hastings. Two crap photos.
The title comes from BH who is getting picky. Didn’t want me to post this but I said hey, it’s in focus and it’s 150, in March no less. Already had a few blurry but identifiable wedgie picks this year but, like I said, she’s her own worst critic.
This is a reject Wedgie pic she took at Stockyard Point a few weeks ago which didn’t pass muster, but I’m quite fond of it.
PS She’s really around 165 if you count her blurry but identifiable ‘shots in the locker’ but try telling her.
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I think BH deserves a nice trip to South America as a reward for her efforts. With any luck, she might even spot some of these beauties.
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Wandered out into the back yard after work and discovered we may have two resident ButcherBird youths. Hope they hang around for a few weeks!
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There’s a pair of some sort of eagle/falcon thing moved in near Hill Rd Mooroolbark. Have spotted them twice in the last few weeks, circling, circling over greenslopes reserve and the adjoining creek/waste drain.
Not wedgies I don’t think (couldn’t spot the wedge shaped tail) but they’re similarly dark/near black underneath and look to be a pretty decent sized.
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