Went to the Rhododendron Gardens on Tuesday with a friend and a group of photographers from the club I belong to. We split up and went in different directions. My friend and I headed down towards the lake and then found the Lyrebird Walk. We had heard one calling so was hoping we would see…
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Horsefield’s Bronze Cuckoo
I’m getting to recognise when there is a bird sound I haven’t heard before. I’ll go outside in search of it, camera always in hand. This one my husband and I could hear from our office out the front of the house but it took me awhile to find it. It was well disguised amongst…
Australian King Parrot
I heard a bird calling in our front yard and knew it was an Australian King Parrot. They’ve been hanging around a lot lately. A family of them. This is a grown male. He watched me put seed in the feeder (the reason he was calling I’m sure) and then just sat and watched me…
Rainbow Lorikeets
The first thing I noticed when I entered the zoo pathway was the sound of excitable lorikeets and how they were flying from tree to tree. The lorikeet is a species of parrot here in Australia and very colourful. They love fruit and nectar and can be seen in flowering gum trees and fruit trees…
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…