Well, this is not yet Brisbane - Dirk is seeing if he can actually hold a camera with a long lens! One of our hilarious Scaly Lorikeets out our back window.
When you get out early to birding sites, who ever walks first gets to clean out the webs - some of them are rather large!
This is a more proper (and happier) place for a fruit dove to be, instead of lost in suburban Robina. We went to Pullen Pullen Reserve in Western Brissie, to find some new birds. These Rose-Crowned fruit doves obliged for us--flying in as we were sitting on a bench eating a snack. Maybe they smelled the banana bread... A few weeks ago we had a huge batch of bananas from one of the feral banana trees in our back yard. Since we couldn't eat them all, we put them where animals could get to them. We had some nice flying fox visitors, and also some brush-tailed possums. The bananas didn't last long!
We never tire of the fairy wrens, this one is obviously a red-backed fairy wren. Birds very aptly named! They bounce around the brush in little family groups, twittering to keep track of each other. Today we saw three species--Red-backed, Variegated, and Superb. All of them very splendid, as far as we're concerned.
We saw this Royal Spoonbill sweeping up his lunch at Eagleby Wetlands. We read that the other Yellow-billed Spoonbill's feathers can get rather dinghy white, but the Royals are always impeccably white.
Rufous Whistler, not to be confused with the Golden Whistler. But both are quite pretty birds.
And Dirk i happy to get out and about to see the birds again, and is pleased that his monopod allows him to use his camera again!
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Cool birds! Good photos Doc, even with one arm :-) Sorry to hear you guys had a bird/window incident... very sad. We put those IR decals on our big windows and they still hit from time to time...
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