 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 |