definitely tawny frogmouth. Common around the CBD and suburbs … great birds
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#Eastern Spinebill - Balnarring. The Yellow Correa in our front yard to be precise. BH had a long day and sat on the front veranda with a glass of red and her camera and let the birds come to her for a change. Worked out well.
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Wow!
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Some of BH’s recent pics
#Orange Chats - Macs Road Merrinee. Some bird was giving another a definite earful.
#White Winged Fairy Wren - Macs Road Merrinee
#Little Crow - Merbein South. The wind was blowing and exposed the white base of the neck feathers, the key diagnostic tell tale for a crow over the raven.
#Straited Pardalote - Hattah
#Peregrine Falcon - Moorooduc Quarry. “You looking at me!”
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Pair of sea eagles. They were circling just 20 m above us at one stage but I couldn’t stop the phone camera focusing on the clouds when they were that close.
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The rain has stopped and the little birds have returned. This collection of photos were all taken over the past 24 hours from inside the house- some clearer than others but it’s been magical sitting here watching them all come and go. The Lewin’s honeyeater family of four dominate the traffic but they all get along pretty well… So far we’ve had visit- Lewins & brown honeyeaters, an Eastern Yellow Robin, Grey Fantails, Rufous Fantails, a Spectacled Monarch, a Silvereye, Willy Wagtail, a fleeting visit from a Golden Whistler and another little bird that I haven’t identified yet.
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Meant to also mention that I sat in bed one day last week, enjoying a morning cup of tea and looked out the window wondering what all the noise was about in the closest tree. A couple of spotted doves were busy doing the job. They’d been calling to each other almost non stop leading into it. There was a bit of tail flashing when it was all over then off they went. Took this photo a few weeks back of one of them.
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BH just wondered if the mystery bird is a Lemon Bellied Flyrobin, which she saw in the Northern Territory. Can’t see the belly but she’s putting it out there, looks robinish.
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Thanks Grrr. The mystery one is the last one before the dove pic.
We have a few other very tiny birds that often pop in- I thought maybe Gerygones?? I’ll try and get a snap and post it.
Where do birds sleep?
It’s often not very obvious where all of our daytime-birds hang out at night.
I found this female White-throated Treecreeper sleeping/roosting under the eves of an old building last week. Not too far away from some nearby bushland, but was odd to see.
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Excellent question.
I reckon @GRR ’s BH will know the answer.
I worry about them when the weather is wild and awful.
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I found this bird dead on a track 15 metres long from a carpark to the beach on the Great Ocean road , there is a small stream with no waterflow at the moment,
not the type I would associate with the coast and forest
Always sad to see.
I have no idea what the bird is but possibly looks like a young bird?
I was thinking a Reed Warbler, Australian Pippit,Skylark or other bird that frequents flat farmland or Swamy areas. Thought a Sparrow when I first saw it but Beak to pointy.
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It’s funny you say that because it makes me think that the mystery bird in my garden may have been just that. I have spotted the male Golden Whistler most days this week.
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i think it’s a Richard’s Pippit or maybe a Bassian thrush