Monday, 17 February 2014

Shining Flycatcher

It's not everyday you get to see a new bird. On the 14th of February we went to Bullock Point to see what birds were around. As we walked down a side track, I was trying to get a photo of a kingfisher which flew into a tree just in front of me,and Kel said "what was that bird with the reddish back"? I quickly turned the camera around in time to get photos of the Shining Flycatcher, (at first we thought this was a female, but it may be an immature), which neither of us had seen before.
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 Shining Flycatcher (Myiagra alecto)(Immature?)
 

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Wednesday, 1 January 2014

Happy New Year

What a way to start the New Year. Walk out on the verandah to have a cup of tea and see the Golden Shower in the back yard alive with birds. Scarlet Honeyeater, Brown Honeyeater, Rainbow Lorikeet, Noisy Miner and Noisy Friarbird.
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Scarlet Honeyeater (Myzomela sanguinolenta) (Male)

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Sunday, 22 December 2013

Merry Christmas

 Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas

Laughing Kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguineae)
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