The aggression of Noisy Miners knows no bounds.
Personally I’m not a fan of the little grey ■■■■■■■
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Apparently quite common before Europeans arrived
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Pied Oyster Catcher.
Took this yesterday, When I uploaded the shots to my computer I discovered it was the same bird I photographed and posted on the 12th of Feb. 1D.
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#200 Wonga Pigeon - Gipsy Point
Brown Gerygone – Mallacoota. Best shot photo bombed by a stray leaf but a lifer so BH is chuffed. Super hard to capture on film, flit about like nobody’s biz.
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I’m pretty sure that the Gerygones flit in and out of our garden and the birdbath…but you’re right about how hard it is to take a photo- & I don’t have a decent camera either so shots are never clear. They are tiny and very cute.
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BH is now officially a Swiftie, of the birder variety(Is there any other?), thanks to today’s visit to Chiltern.
#Swift Parrot - Chiltern.
BH in Swift Parrot stalker mode
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Hopefully, they show up at Bundoora Park again this year. Have seen them by the Yarra at Burnley also (2012).
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Some pics from the Western Treatment Plant yesterday.
#Little Eagle - BH has been after this lifer for ages and up until yesterday it was always a case of “if only you’d been here 10 minutes ago.” Handsome Devil, it must be said.
#Australian Hobby
#Blue-winged Parrot
#White-winged Black Tern, in his breeding plumage
#Whistling Kite
#Red-kneed Dotterel
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I think its a Juvenile Red Capped Dotterell not sure. I now think its a Double Banded Plover ,research is better than guessing.
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#Flame Robin - Boneo. According to BH it’s Robin season right now and she’s antsy because there were reports of Pink Robins at Cape Schank yesterday, only a few hours after she’d been there. Such is the life of the birder.
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PS. The enclosed back paddock (no ferals supposedly inside as it was originally used to breed up Eastern Barred Bandicoots) at Woodlands Historic Park (near the airport) is great for the ‘red’ robins this time of year if anyone wants to get on to them. Red-capped Robins are resident year-round (usually more of an inland bird), Flame and Scarlet Robins are conspicuous Autumn-Winter visitors, and you’re also a chance at Pink and Rose Robins. Eastern Yellow Robins there, also.
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Yep, Double-banded Plover (Dotterel) - you can just make out the vestiges of the breeding plumage ‘double-band’ across the neck and chest.
Fun fact, this species is the only Trans-Tasman migrant in the world (Migrates between NZ (Summer breeder) and Australia (Winter visitor)).
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Went back today and still there , low tide usually 1 metre under water.
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This may be of interest to Blitz birders.
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Cool photo by local Portland legend Allen McCauley.
He says the magpie was attacking the wedge-tailed eagle.
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Looks a bit like Kite surfing.
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Not sure whether they are common throughout melbourne, but recent walks around the Bayside coast reveal large numbers of (fairy)
wrens, particularly near very dense undergrowth. They are very shy. You have to listen for them, then just sit down, next thing they are all around you. I am talking Brighton to Beaumaris.
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I was down at Cat Bay in Phillip island and while I was having some breakfast and checking out the surf these punks came over and as I was having a bite of my salad roll one of them took a bite of the roll straight from my mouth. First one caught me off guard but the second time I dropped my guard and he got a good bite of my roll hahaha. Cheeky bugger.
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One for the corvid fanciers. Been a lean birder year for Crow sightings. We aimlessly circled Mildura Central yesterday, and hung out for ages with the local desperates around the entrance of Dan Murphys, the site of BH’s shot last year, before the dying light forced us to admit defeat. Plenty of ravens but no crows this year, I said. Once more I was wrong.
Heading for the North West extremity of our state today and BH tells me to pull over while she trains her camera on a distant power pole. Another FFFing Raven, says I. No, she replies, it’s a friggin Crow! Only the second sighting on her site this year.
The diagnostic feature is the white base in the throat feathers, clearly visible in the pics
#Little Crow - Merrinee
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