King Parrot & Royal Spoonbill.

This immature male King Parrot came to our feeder the other morning for a quick feed. It is always good to see that they are still around.

Australian King Parrot (Alisterus scapularis)

Just down the road from our place is a park with a pond and sometimes you can be lucky to see Spoonbills there, as I was the other day. 

Royal Spoonbill (Platalea regia)

 

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Back Yard Birds

Next month Birdlife Australia are holding the inaugural Aussie Backyard Bird Count 20-26 October for more info visit - 
http://birdlife.org.au/get-involved/whats-on/bird-week/

These are some of the birds seen recently in our backyard.

What are the chances these birds will show up during bird week?
 

Bar-shouldered Dove (Geopelia humeralis)

Double-barred Finch (Taeniopygia bichenovii)

 

Australian King-Parrot (M&F) (Alisterus scapularis)

Australian King Parrot (Male)

Pale-headed Rosella (Platycercus adscitus) (Juveniles)

Rainbow Lorikeet (Trichoglossus haematodus)

 King Parrot (Female)

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What can be more Australian than this post !

There are a few animals that stand out to represent Australia, and I would like to share some of them.

On a recent visit to Churingas B&B just outside of town as part of our surveys for "Bird Trails of Cooloola", we were lucky enough to see all of the following, plus lots more birds, 62 species in all.  

Laughing Kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguineae)

Australian King-Parrot (Alisterus scapularis) (Female)

Australian King-Parrot (Male)

 Eastern Grey Kangaroo (Macropus giganteus)

Platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) 

Will post more birds seen over the 2 days we were there soon.

Patchwork of Birds of Patchwork Cottage

One of the little towns in the Mary Valley is called Imbil, and here we stayed at a B&B called Patchwork Cottage to undertake the next survey of birds in the area. We managed to get 61 species over 2 days.

Patchwork Cottage backs on to Forestry, and the birds seen provided a Patchwork of Colours against the green of the surrounding forest.

Just how many shades of green are in the bird world I would not like to even guess at, with the Green of the Catbird, King Parrot and Emerald Dove as well as the Satin Bowerbird female.

There was the Black and Gold of the Regent Bowerbird male, Pink and Grey of the Galah, Black and White of the White-headed Pigeon.

Brown of the Brown Cuckoo-Dove and Tawny Grassbird.

Black crown, Chestnut throat, White breast and Cinnamon buff underparts of the Eastern Spinebill, and all the colours of the Rainbow Bee-eater.

Green Catbird (Ailuroedus crassirostris)

Australian King Parrot (Female) (Alisterus scapularis)

Satin Bowerbird (Female) (Ptilonorhynchus violaceus)

This is not a very good picture, but I have included it to see if any one has noticed any barring on a female Satin Bowerbird before.

Tawny Grassbird (Megalurus timoriensis)

Yabba Creek

Just a short walk down the road from Patchwork Cottage you come to Yabba Creek.

Black-striped Wallaby (Macropus dorsalas) Scrub Wallaby

Some of the locals.

Australian King Parrot

This male King Parrot decided to pay us a visit the other day and by the looks of it the Rainbow Lorikeets would have preferred he did not come at all.

Click on photos to enlarge.

Australian King Parrot (Alisterus scapularis)
Rainbow Lorikeet ( Trichoglossus haematodus)

Australian King Parrot (Alisterus scapularis)