I mentioned yesterday about the kookaburra in our neighbour’s yard. This one was in our front garden, on our fence. They love to watch for worms on the ground. I wonder how they can actually see them. It’s really amazing. When the weather gets warmer they’ll also be on the look out for skinks and…
Category: At home
Australian Laughing Kookaburra
We have three kookaburras living on our property and many others that visit us or our neighbour’s property. I love that I can get quite close to them, talk to them and watch them. They are lovely birds. This one was in my neighbour’s yard a few days ago and watched me as I moved…
Superb Fairy-wren
The male of this species is coloured a very bright blue during mating season which is late winter-Spring. The females are brown and the young are also brown but often with mottled colouring and blue/black tails. They have an interesting and cute (I think) call sound. While I was in the garden a couple of…
Quarrelling Rosellas
The crimson rosellas have lots of juveniles out now. We see them in the garden on a regular basis. They love to quarrel over the feeder or any seed they spill on the ground. Below is an adult on the feeder and then two juveniles having a bit of a squabble over the feeder. They…
Eastern Rosella
Not a very sharp shot. Graham and I were walking around our property and checking on things and as we came through under some trees into the backyard we noticed this bird pop up from the long grass (ground too wet to take the mower on it as yet). It only stayed momentarily before flying…