Birdwatchery

[Irrev-Black]

Got swoopies? Check here.

https://www.magpiealert.com/

[Loki]

Saw this jobbie



Image from web coz can't be bothered resizing and uploading.

Our resident twatchers should be able to work out (roughly) where I've been working from that.

[pipbarber]

Saw this jobbie



Image from web coz can't be bothered resizing and uploading.

Our resident twatchers should be able to work out (roughly) where I've been working from that.

That's a grasswren. Looking at my bird guide i'd say Kalkadoon Grasswren from western Qld but it could also be a dusky grasswren from the NT. Either way, you ain't in Kansas anymore!

Beautiful bird, either way.

[Loki]

You could have waited more than 2 minutes and at least made it seem a challenge.

Yep, if you're seeing that you are somewhere reasonably close to Mt Isa and looking at a rocky outcrop probably dominated by Triodia.

[Irrev-Black]

There's no way I could make the security camera footage attractive, but again the Masked Lapwings, aka plovers, have been active at night out front of our place, foraging on the footpath at 0140.

As happened last time I saw them, birds have been sharing the space with a couple of hares.

[Irrev-Black]

Got swoopies? Check here.

https://www.magpiealert.com/

Related - Kid does immense data survey on magpie swoops, results rendered in LEGO.

Excellent effort.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-09/ ... /103297520

[Irrev-Black]

All hail the bin-chicken, and anything else that can eat those bloody cane toads and get away with it.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-23/ ... /101683596

[Irrev-Black]

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I had to pay Dirty Window Tax (we keep a sheen on our big glass areas so birds don't crash into them) and Digital Zoom Tax, but here's one of our local kookas, doing their best to avoid what will probably turn out as 38 degrees.

I filled the blue plastic clamshell pool as a bird drinker.

[stylofone]

My bird photography is an expression of the pleasure I take in living in my own house, where I share the environment with them. If you go out and enjoy birds beyond your own comfort zone, and you celebrate the birds' exclusive habitat, it's even better.

Meanwhile, here are the three photos I just uploaded to pixelfed.. They let me link to the full resolution images, which is nice

[pipbarber]

That's a great photo of the kookaburra. It's unusual to see the tail feathers from that angle. The juvenile king parrot's a beauty too.