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Some birds from the weekend from 3 short trips - to the river, a lake, and the hills
By the river....
The local osprey nest high up on a radio mast across the river is occupied again
A brown honeyeater (one of the common honeyeaters in my part of Perth). It landed just in front of me so I had to take a shot.
An Australian Shoveler - I liked its colour in the sun
At the lake....
A male musk duck was doing its call for attention for the ladies. It was swimming with its tail up out of the water with tail feathers fanned, it would make its call then splash the water then repeat.
A Eurasian Coot was having a bath and giving its neighbours a shower...
A dragonfly was flying by
A Nankeen night heron was looking on shyly
The egret had some success
And the kookaburra wasn't laughing
Up at a new place (for me) in the Perth hills ....
There was a Red-tailed Black cockatoo or two (it's the least endangered of the southwest's three black cockatoos) enjoying some marri gumnuts (marri being one of the local eucalypts)
A few ringneck parrots (locally called twenty-eights) were flying around. It's nice to see them up in the hills. They used to be common around Perth before the rainbow lorikeet invasion.
Buzzing around in the tree canopies there were some weebills. These are Australia's smallest bird and they don't sit still or out in the open for long
Finally the prize sighting of the day (for me) was a Western Spinebill. I've never seen one before.
By the river....
The local osprey nest high up on a radio mast across the river is occupied again
A brown honeyeater (one of the common honeyeaters in my part of Perth). It landed just in front of me so I had to take a shot.
An Australian Shoveler - I liked its colour in the sun
At the lake....
A male musk duck was doing its call for attention for the ladies. It was swimming with its tail up out of the water with tail feathers fanned, it would make its call then splash the water then repeat.
A Eurasian Coot was having a bath and giving its neighbours a shower...
A dragonfly was flying by
A Nankeen night heron was looking on shyly
The egret had some success
And the kookaburra wasn't laughing
Up at a new place (for me) in the Perth hills ....
There was a Red-tailed Black cockatoo or two (it's the least endangered of the southwest's three black cockatoos) enjoying some marri gumnuts (marri being one of the local eucalypts)
A few ringneck parrots (locally called twenty-eights) were flying around. It's nice to see them up in the hills. They used to be common around Perth before the rainbow lorikeet invasion.
Buzzing around in the tree canopies there were some weebills. These are Australia's smallest bird and they don't sit still or out in the open for long
Finally the prize sighting of the day (for me) was a Western Spinebill. I've never seen one before.
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