I was fortunate to get quite close to a couple of wrens at the park. This hasn’t been my usual experience so I was quite excited about it. The first is a female who was on the ground calling. Love their sweet sound. The second is an immature male who flew into a tree as…
Birds of Lysterfield Park
With occasional sunny days I’ve been venturing back to my favourite park again. Below is an Eastern Rosella climbing up the side of a tree and also a Butcher Bird who was annoying a Crimson Rosella in a low bough. It would fly up and then back down again, watching the bird above, and then…
Close up of a Crimson Rosella
The birds are getting used to seeing me at my dining room window watching them. The feeder is only a few feet away and I love to watch them as they’re feeding and walking over the limbs of the large liquidamber tree. Just yesterday, when working in the garden a couple of Rosellas sat in…
Yellow Robin and Blackbird
Two other birds that came out to play that day was the Eastern Yellow Robin and also a Blackbird – not sure if it was a female or juvenile as the adult males are very black. I don’t often get the chance to photograph blackbirds as they take off as soon as they detect movement,…
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…