This poor heron was being harrassed by noisy minor birds when I visited Lysterfield Lake just recently. Note the minor with its beak open in the first shot – it was really telling the heron off. In the second shot there are two more noisy miners squabbling in the air just above the crouching heron….
Category: Australian wildlife
White faced heron
While at Lysterfield Park last week this white-faced heron teased me by landing on the fence at the weir wall, waiting till I was several metres away and then taking off again, flying further on and alighting on the fence again. Eventually I managed to get a few shots of it on the fence, this…
Cormorants at the beach
I spied this really big bird in the distance and tried to get as close as I could. I had parked near a cliff so you couldn’t get down to a beach but I found my way to a pier through a local yacht club and watched the birds from there. There is a mixture…
A visit to the beach
My husband needed to visit our old family dentist which is miles away from where we now live. So I took the opportunity to visit the beach while he was busy and below are a couple of shots I took of a Pacific Gully in flight.
Masked Lapwing Plover and Chick
My husband and I were visiting our daughter and grandson in Monbulk last week and the street carpark was full so we went around to the back of the shops to park. I knew from past visits with our daughter that a pair of Masked Lapwing Plovers lived on the grass at the back of…