Crimson Rosella at our bird bath in the late sunshine. |
The Magpie family I feed every morning. |
Cockatoos - Christmas decorations - the longest day of the year.. |
Fresh Worm for Junior's Saturday lunch |
Galah enjoyng some seeds from our lawn area. |
Only one Magpie baby this year, out of the nest about 2 weeks. |
Male Magpie - he's in charge of the family of now 8 with the addition of only one youngster this year |
Noisy Miner - one of an aggressive group in our garden, but they can't chase the Magpies away. |
Wood Ducks confident enough to take a nap in the morning sunshine our yard. |
Mr. & Mrs. Wood Duck |
One of my Magpie family, watching me watching him through the window. |
Pied Currawong |
White- winged Chough - white feathers only show when they fly or open their wings when on the ground. |
Male Mudlark |
Willy Wagtail singing his little heart out. |
Kookaburra hoping for some extras when I feed the Magpie family |
Sulphur Crested Cockatoo paid a fleeting visit to check out the garden. |
Male Mudlark - a quick and flighty little bird. |
Female Bower Bird - the cold wet weather has brought them down from the bushland behind us. |
Crimson Rosella - after the seeds on the Gaura in the garden. |
Crimson Rosella - through the window. |
Crimson Rosellas |
Male and female Red-rumped Grass Parrots. |
The opportunist, femaleBower Bird at the last of the Tomatoes. |
Two Noisy Miner babies - their first visit to the bird bath. |
Male King Parrot |
Adult King Parrot - through the window. |
Galahs - time for breakfast. |
Mudlark mother sitting on eggs. |
Noisy Miner in Callistemon heaven. |
Mudlark nest - a second attempt after their first nest was raided and eggs stolen |
Noisy Miner youngster |
Wood Ducks in our yard - late afternoon |
Dusky Wood Swallows - the male has brought a little gift for his lady friend. |
Noisy Miner babies with adult. |
Cockatoos - the early morning clean up. |
Cockatoos - on the way home from our walk. |
Little family of Wood Ducks |
Mudlark - through the window after a respectable rainfall. |
Resident pair of Kookaburras. |
Male King Parrot on a very damp day. |
Young male Eastern Rosella - taken through wire barrier around the verandah. |
Magpies - 3 of the family of 6 - warbling for their breakfast - through the window.. |
Female Mudlark/Peewee - looking grumpy about a Magpie sitting nearby. |
Kookaburra - both Kookas visited this morning and both clear of any attachment. - through the window. |
Kookaburra - unfortunately something caught in its beak, hope it can dislodge it. |
Juvenile male Crimson Rosella |
Eastern Rosellas in the rain |
Kookaburra sits on the old rain gauge. |
Magpie Mayhem - a serious squabble over territorial boundaries - a hurried shot through the window.. |
Juvenile Eastern Rosella |
Eastern Rosella enjoying seeds from the Gaura flowers. |
Male Blue Wren in his Winter outfit. |
The early Kookaburra catches the worm. |
The early Kookaburra eats the worm. |
Female and male Red-rumped Grass Parrots |
Cockatoos enjoying morning sunshine. |
Crimson Rosella - picking seeds from the Gaura in my garden. |
Female Satin Bower Bird - attracted to red flowers. |
Male Blue Wren with breakfast, and changing into his Winter outfit. |
Adult male Magpie - one of a family of 6, he would be 3 y.o. and still with the family. |
Blue Wren male - starting to shed his Spring/Summer outfit. |
Female Blue Wren. |
White-winged Choughs |
Striated Pardalote - not sure if male or female |
Blue Wren nest in Seaside Daisies. |
Female and male Superb Wrens - watching over the hidden nest. |
Male Superb Blue Wren |
Kookaburra |
Yellow Billed Spoonbill |
Adult Grey Butcher Bird |
Juvenile Grey Butcher bird, waiting for a free feed. |
Grass_Parrots - busy time at the bird bath, boys in first! |
Crimson Rosella |
Crimson Rosella |
Blue Wren nest, they can raise 3 clutches of eggs, only the female sits, and the rest of the group feed the older youngsters. |
White Plumed Honeyeater |
Blue Wren female - the hardware background is to keep the rabbits from the carrots. |
Can't I.D. this Honey Eater, looks a little scruffy, maybe a juvenile? Checked in my RD bird book. |
Female Blue Wren sitting on her eggs, nest is in a Grevillea shrub.. |
This Crested Pigeon sat still enough for me to get the camera and get this shot through the window. |
Spur-winged Plover being a protective parent. They must still have their eggs/chicks surviving. |
Spur-winged Plover - evidently foxes haven't found their nest yet. It's lovely to have them back again. |
Spur-winged Plover protecting its young, you can see the spurs on its wings. |
A small family of Blue Wrens have moved into the yard, hope they stay. |
Corella - tasting the new growth on the Oak Tree. |
Spring is here, the Wood Ducks have arrived. |
Grey Butcher Bird - waiting for a free handout. |
Female Blue Wren |
Jacky Winter - singing his little heart out. |
The result of strong winds a few days ago, bad timing for those preparing for Spring nesting season. |
Male Blue Wren in his Winter outfit taking a bath. |
Wedge-tail Eagle - possibly a juvenile. |
Male Olive-backed Oriole |
Grey Butcher Bird has returned to our yard. |
Male Blue Wren changing into his brown suit for the Winter months. |
Family of Crested Pigeons enjoying a drink on a very warm day. |
Female Blue Wren - through the window. |
Crested Pigeon |
Female Blue Wren |
Male Superb Blue Wren |
Willy Wagtail, a bit bedraggled after a spell of extreme heat, perhaps this season's youngster due to the brown on the wings. |
Blue-faced Honeyeater |
Adult Wedge-tailed Eagle |
Adult Wedge-tailed Eagle |
Noisy Miner Baby - 2nd day out of nest, native bird to our area. |
New Holland Honeyeater |
Noisy Miner sitting on three (I think) youngsters. |
Mudlark male protesting against a Magpie that had flown in near their two youngsters |
With temps at 35C, this Mudlark youngster chose to be fed in the birdbath. |
Female Bower Bird |
Young Galahs waiting for the parents to come and feed them. |
Breakfast for a young Galah. |
Young Galahs |
Dollar Bird - haven't see one of these for about 30 years, great excitement! |
Striated Pardalote feeding its young, looks like tiny spiders/insects in its beak. |
Magpie youngster from last year, 2016, it will take food from my fingers. |
Male Magpie feeding one of three youngsters. All the family help with feeding the young |
Sulphur Crested Cockatoo |
Noisy Miner youngster, they're permanent and noisy residents in our yard. |
Eastern Rosella - feeding on Grevillea seeds - through the window. |
Adelaide Rosella according to the RD Bird Book, if it is it's a long way from home I've not seen one before. |
Adelaide Rosella with the previous Rosella, I've not seen these before. |
Early morning Cockatoo |
Crested Pigeons |
Blue-faced Honey Eater - A new bird in our yard |
Crimson Rosellas - through the window. |
Tweedledum and Tweedledee - Last season's Magpie babies plus female Mudlark waiting to be fed their evening meal. |
4 Eastern Rosellas and 4 Wood Ducks - through the window |
Female Mudlark |
Female Mudlark - taking a break in a preening session. |
Mr & Mrs.Wood Duck and another local resident, male Eastern Rosella. |
Mr. & Mrs. Wood Duck - through the window. |
Male Eastern Rosella - through the window. |
Galahs in our yard, female has a pink eye. |
Grey Butcher Bird - through the window |
Pair of Crimson Rosellas - through the window. |
Adult female Galah |
Adult Wedge-tail Eagle. |
Adult Wedge-tailed Eagle - probably after rabbits. |
Young Galahs |
Young Galahs |
Adult Wedge Tailed Eagle |
Cockatoos plus one Corella, top left. |
White-faced Heron and calf. |
A friend's Rooster |
Adult male Mudlark and young males - through the glass door. |
Male Mudlark youngster - Males have a white eyebrow |
Sulphur-crested Cockatoo. |
Mudlark babies - looks like three babies. |
Mudlark babies |
Sulphur-crested Cockatoos |
Sulphur-crested Cockatoo |
Mudlark Nest |
Pair of Sulphur-crested Cockatoos. |
Sulphur-crested Cockatoo - through the window. |
Male Superb Blue Wren |
Male Superb Blue Wren |
Male Superb Blue Wren |
Young male Blue Wren - singing his little song. |
Male Wood Duck |
White Faced Heron after insects disturbed by the black steer. |
Male Blue Wren changing his bright Spring/Summer colours to his duller brown Winter outfit. |
Female Gang Gang with juvenile |
Crimson Rosella |
Sulphur Crested Cockatoos -about one third of the number of a large flock that arrived one morning. |
Juvenile King Parrot |
Adult King Parrot - taken through the window as it checked out the green tomatoes. |
Male King Parrot - through the window. |
White Faced Heron |
Male Superb Blue Wren |
Bronze-wing Pigeon |
Bronze- wing Pigeon |
Blue Heron - extremely shy birds. |
Part of a small flock of adult and juvenile Galahs. |
Male Eastern Rosella |
Young male Mudlark - the males have the white eyebrow. |
Noisy Miner baby, its sibling didn't want to face the camera - local Honey Eaters in our area. |
Part of a large flock of Cockatoos that were enjoying grubbing in the grass |
Sulphur-crested Cockatoo |
Kookaburra - face to face through the window. |
Kookaburra profile - through the window. |
Mr. Wood Duck taking some time out. |
Mrs. Wood Duck enjoying the green grass. |
Eastern Spinebill - Honey Eater in eucalypt tree |
Eastern Rosella in the Clarey Sage - through the window. |
Sulphur-crested Cockatoos - through the window |
Juvenile King Parrot |
Juvenile King Parrot |
Young male Wood duck - through the window. |
Young female Wood Duck - through the window. |
Sulphur Crested Cockatoo |
Straw-necked Ibis |
Straw-necked Ibis |
Cockatoos - one of several large flocks in the paddocks |
Cockatoo in flight and watching me. |
Cockatoo lookouts |
Mudlark male - also known as Peewee, Magpie Lark, Little Magpie |
Mudlark - male juvenile (males have a white eyebrow) |
Straw-neck Ibis |
Magpie parents with youngster |
Magpie youngster with parents - making sure water isn't too deep. |
Magpies youngster - parents satisfied it's safe to leave it on its own near water |
Magpie youngster now right at home in the bird bath. |
This Spring's only youngster, fed by both parents. |
Honeyeater Noisy Miner baby in our garden. |
Cockatoos flying and Corellas on the ground. |
Young Raven |
Kookaburra - eye to eye. |
Kookaburra - over the shoulder |
Kookaburra - through the kitchen window. |
Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree. |
Female Wood Duck |
Male Wood Duck |
Male Eastern Rosella - through the window. |
Partial Winter outfit of male Superb Blue wren. |
Female Superb Blue Wren - through the window. |
Magpie - One of the Front Paddock Family group of five that come for a free feed. |
Male Superb Blue Wren |
Male Superb Blue Wren |
Male Superb Blue Wren |
Male Superb Blue Wren |
Magpie youngster - 17 months old, adult plumage growing out on its head. |
Magpie adult - the family leader. |
Willy Wagtail |
Top Knot Pigeon |
Noisy Miners - adult on left and two babies. |
Eastern rosella baby |
Sulphur-crested Cockatoos. |
Kookaburra - a little agitated as I had my camera. |
Young Magpie - 14 months old and losing its juvenile plumage |
Magpie - weather is warming up a little - through the window. |
Kookaburra |
Noisy Miner babies - native Honeyeaters. |
Magpies - possibly having a mild discussion about territories. |
Female Satin Bower Bird - they enjoy the red flowers on the clarey Sage. |
Part of a 100 plus flock of Straw-necked Ibis |
White-faced Heron |
White-faced Heron - one of a pair. |
White-faced Heron - second one of the pair. |
One of last season's youngsters, still wearing his juvenile plumage, an adult behind. |
Kookaburra |
Kookaburra |
One of last season's young Magpies |
One of last season's young Magpies |
Female Australian satin Bower Bird |
Wedge-tail Eagle and escort. |
A juvenile Wedge-tailed Eagle. |
Juvenile wedge-tailed Eagle |
Juvenile wedge-tailed Eagle |
Juvenile Wedge-tailed Eagle |
Adult Wedge-tailed Eagle |
Male King Parrot - through the window. |
Adult King Parrot - through the window |
Adult King Parrot |
White-browed Wood Swallow |
White-plumed Honeyeater |
White-necked Heron |
White-necked Heron - about 200 metres away |
Straw-necked Ibis |
Male Eastern Rosella - through the window. |
Magpie - Looking for worms - taken through the window. |
Male Eastern Rosella - through the window. |
Male Wood Duck enjoying the damp weather |
Female Flame Robin |
Female Flame Robin |
Eastern Rosellas - female on left - through the window. |
Male Eastern Rosella - through the kitchen window |
Male Blue Wren - changing into Winter plumage. |
Female Superb Blue Wren |
Male Superb Blue Wren |
Juvenile King Parrots |
White Throated Tree Creeper |
King Parrot juveniles |
Juvenile King Parrot |
Striated Pardalote babies |
Striated Pardalote adult |
Kookaburra |
Gold Finch |
Wood ducks |
Willy Wagtail |
Diamond Firetail Finch |
Diamond Firetail Finch |
Stand off at the dam - White Plumed Honeyeater & Diamond Firetail Finch |
Male Eastern Rosella on the Clarey Sage - through the glass door |
Diamond Firetail Finches & reflection - female on left. |
Brown Goshawk with plucked Topknot Pigeon |
Brown Goshawk - full shot |
Brown Goshawk with Topknot Pigeon |
Little Grebe & female Grey Teal |
Top Knot Pigeon |
Juvenile White Faced Heron - through the window. |
Juvenile White Faced Heron - through the window. |
Juvenile White Faced Heron - through the window. |
Magpie baby being fed - through the window. |
Top Knot Pigeons |
White-necked Heron |
White-necked Heron |
Kingfisher - through the glass door. |
Sulphur-crested Cockatoo - through the window |
Sulphur-crested Cockatoos |
Sulphur-crested Cockatoo - through the window |
Kookaburra |
Kookaburras |
Kookaburras having their morning chuckle |
Kookaburras |
Magpie |
Female Wood Duck - through the window. |
Crimson Rosella |
Crimson Rosella |
Crimson Rosella |
Yellow Tufted Honeyeater |
Brown Falcon and Magpie |
Brown Falcon and Magpie |
Brown Falcon and Magpie |
Male Eastern Rosella - through the window |
Male Eastern Rosella - through the window |
Male Eastern Rosella - through the window |
Male Mudlark - through the window. |
Wood Ducks with an out of season single duckling. |
Male & female Grass Parrots |
Female Scarlet Robin |
Scissors Grinder, Satin Flycatcher - Dragonfly for supper. |
Willy Wagtail - of the Fantail family |
Juvenile King Parrot |
Welcome Swallows, Australian Swallows or House Swallows. |
Willy Wagtail, Black & White Fantail, Shepherd's Companion |
Restless Flycatcher, Scissors Grinder, Little Fflycatcher |
Australasian Little Grebe |
Adult King Parrot |
Swallow |
Male Grass Parrot |
Grass Parrots - it's been a warm day! |
Cockatoo |
Kookaburra sits in the old gumtree, merry, merry King of the bush is he |
Galahs |
Male Willy Wagtail |
Male Mudlark |
Female Mudlark with what looks like a frog. |
Grass, or Red-rumped Parrots |
Kingfisher |
Diamond Firetail Finch |
Magpie - juvenile, one of last Spring's babies. |
Magpies - feeling the heat |
Cockatoos |
Cockatoos - It's lift off. |
Young male Wood Duck |
Kookaburra |
Cockatoos |
Grass Parrots taking an evening drink. |
Australian Little Grebe |
Cockatoo & Galah |
Corella |
Pair of Corellas |
Wood Ducks with ducklings |
Male Red-rumped or Grass Parrot - through the window. |
Young male Eastern Rosella - taken through the window. |
Magpie - carolling on a fine frosty morning. |
Eastern Rosellas - the one in the foreground is possibly a female. |
Male Eastern Rosella - through the kitchen window. |
Wood Ducks - out of season family? |
Some of a very large flock of Cockatoos |
Cockatoo |
Cockatoo |
Cockatoo |
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Rainbow bee-eater |
Grass parrots |
Adult King Parrot |
King Parrot |
Galahs in the morning at the wash away. |
Galahs coming to land in the wash away. |
Black-faced Cuckoo Shrike |
Grass Parrots or Red-rumped Parrots |
Grass Parrots or Red-rumped Parrots |
Grass Parrots or Red-rumped Parrots |
Female Mudlark, Peewee, or Magpie Lark. |
Young Galahs - who's watching the birdie? |
Sacred Kingfisher |
Sacred Kingfisher |
Corellas |
Ten little Wood Ducks went out one day..... |
Mr. & Mrs. Wood Duck and their 10 little Wood Ducks |
Cockatoo |
Cockatoo |
Galah |
Male Eastern Rosella |
Cockatoos & Corellas - finding a parking spot can be difficult at times! |
King Parrots |
King Parrots |
Kookaburra with mouse and perhaps a youngster. |
Kookaburra - he missed the snack. Through the window. |
The Wood Duck family out this morning, but now down to five babies. Mr. Wood Duck made sure he was between me and his family. |
Crimson Rosella |
Mr. & Mrs. Wood Duck and family |
Female Wood Duck - through the window. |
Male Eastern Rosella - taken through the glass door. |
Female Eastern Rosella on the Clarey Sage - taken through the glass door. |
Galahs |
Cockatoos - the big flock gathers. |
Cockatoos, getting the last warmth from the late sunlight. |
Wood Ducks walking through our yard. - Through the window. |
Chilly morning Magpies |
Noisy Miner enjoying the clarey Sage. |
Cockatoos - it was cold early this morning. |
Male Grass or Red-rumped Parrot - through the window. |
Cockatoo - late afternoon. |
Australian Magpie - through the window. |
Mudlark pair - Male, with white eyebrow on right. |
Male Mudlark or Peewee. |
Magpie in full morning voice. |
Male Gang Gang Cockatoo |
Gang Gang mutual preening session. |
Female Gang Gang preening her mate. |
At this stage they called it quits and walked away from each other. |
I've had enough of this. I'm not moving. |
I'm going to trample you into the ground. |
Hey, no kicking, that's not fair! |
Right, you asked for it! |
Nope, I'm still not moving. |
Now I'm getting really annoyed. |
You still don't scare me! |
O.K., you asked for it! |
You don't scare me big boy. |
Adult male King Parrot feeding a juvenile |
A private moment. |
Make way, make way! |
Banking left to check for landing space. |
Braking hard and stalling for landing. |
Tail flaps down hard. |
Cockatoo flight |
Cockatoo flight |
O.K., if you insist. |
You want me to what?? |
Hi handsome. |
Oops! |
Early morning warm up exercise - second move. |
Early morning warm up exercise - first move. |
Galahs |
I'm full, it's your turn now. Thanks Mum. |
Feed me, feed me, my turn now. |
Well, Mum's arrived, so what's for tea? |
Three young Galahs waiting for their evening feed. |
A hungry and impatient youngster. |
Magpie about to lose a feather! |
Sulphur Crested Cockatoos |
Top Knot Pigeon |
Galahs |
Young Galah |
Cockatoo - gliding in to join the rest of the feeding flock. |
Sulphur-crested Cockatoos. Finding a spot to land can be difficult at times. |
Female Grass Parrot or Red-rumped Parrot in the rain. |
Male Grass Parrot or Red-rumped Parrot in the rain. |
Magpie junior in amongst the roses. Through the window. |
Magpie junior checking things out in the vegie patch - through the loungeroom window. |
Magpie junior - babies need their rest. Through the window. |
Mother Magpie taking a brief time out from her very demanding single offspring from this season. |
Male Eastern Rosella checking out the nesting box. |
Noisy Miner - through glass door. |
Cockatoo & Small-billed Corellas |
Small Billed Corellas |
Tweedledum & Tweedledee - Noisy Miner babies |
Straw-necked Ibis |
Sulphur Crested Cockatoos |
Magpie - late afternoon. |
Magpie waiting to see if the Choughs turned up something tasty. |
Galahs |
Galahs |
New Holland Honeyeater - Is there anyone around? |
I think the coast is clear. |
Tastes pretty good for a free feed. |
Thornbill enjoying a free feed. |
Hurry up, it's my turn now. |
You've had enough, move over as it's my turn now. |
Male Superb Blue Wren in his brown Winter suit, but still with a blue tail. |
Neighbour's fluffy chook - well she does live just down the road. |
Eastern Spinebill |
Eastern Spinebill |
Eastern Spinebill |
Eastern Spinebill |
Female superb Blue Wren. |
Female Superb Blue Wren |
Kookaburra - taken through the window. |
Kookaburra - taken through the window. |
Kookaburra - taken through the window. |
Kookaburra - I can see something. Taken through window. |
Kookaburras - This is my spot, get lost. |
Female or juvenile Gang Gang Cockatoo |
Gang Gangs - a family squabble. Pity I chopped the tail off! |
Gang Gang Cockatoos - perhaps immature males with head plumage changing. |
Eastern Spinebill - taken through glass door. |
King Parrot - taken through the window. I think he knew I was taking his photo. |
Gang Gang feeding, early morning |
Gang Gang feeding, early morning |
Gang Gang feeding, early morning. |
Gang Gang feeding early morning. |
Eastern Rosella |
Eastern Rosellas |
White Plumed Honey Eater |
Male Mudlark catching insects at the edge of the dam |
Magpie |
Kookaburra |
Kooka burra - looks a little scruffy. |
Kookaburra - This could be a juvenile Jacky as it's on it's own in the garden |
Gang Gang Cockatoo |
Gang Gang Cockatoo |
Gang Gang Cockatoo |
Gang Gang Cockatoo |
Gang Gang Cockatoo |
Gang Gang Cockatoos drinking at the dam |
Gang Gang Cockatoos drinking at the dam |
Gang Gang Cockatoo drinking at the dam |
Gang Gang Cockatoo |