Bushwalk Australia

A blurry photo of a yellow-tailed black cockatoo being swooped by a noisy miner. We had a squadron of 12 fly by, with 3 of them making return visits (which the noisy miners objected to - they are extremely territorial).

The very common wattle bird :

this tree is just a few meters from the back door and at the moment it gets several of those birds for a few hours a day yet it has been harder than I thought to get a decent shot.
Finally I took that one this morning. Not that good but better than my other attempts.
This is the same tree that usually has wrens and finches flying about.

My butcherbirds are back!!!! First time I've seen them for months.

this morning :

one of a pair. The other one is just off to the top left in the non cropped image.

This is Ripper.
I know her mother, she has grown up here, as well as her grandmother.
So Ripper is somewhat special to me.
ripper because of the way it runs around like a total lunatic.

Outside my kitchen window .


the other day I found Edna again. (after seeing her many holes...)

Can anybody ID this handsome specimen? It's abdomen is about the size of a 50c piece.
Thanks
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cajun wrote:Can anybody ID this handsome specimen? It's abdomen is about the size of a 50c piece.
Thanks

Looks like an orb spider - perhaps a Garden orbweaver. Not 100% sure though.

Thanks Micky. It seems to be a great season for arachnids at our place. I have never seen so many, and so many different species.

I haven't been able to track down the exact orb weaver, the Aust Museum tells me that there are 100 species.

These little fellas insist on taking shortcut through house.
Eventually flew off.

You ought to enter that in the photo comp. A very unusual view of a wee bird indeed.

What is the Bird Please?

Thanks Neilmny.
Hadn't thought about that.

Corvus it's a Silvereye

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Should have picked it from the eyes ,don't get too many round here in Devonport.

Spotted by the front door a few days ago.

I've seen many of the empty shells over the years but never witnessed the actual event before.

Nice capture phan_Tom.

Fantastic timing and a great shot!

Thanks phan_Tom, agree with others.
I've often looked at the empty case and boggled at how it could happen.

Nice one.

I was somewhat stunned today to see 20 Swallows lined up on the power lines to the pump house.
There could have been more about, but I counted 20.
No camera though.

I would never have thought that possible to see so many flocked together.

Last week and a ~year ago, counted 30+ black cockatoos passing over. Like a dozen, then ten, then another eight etc headed inland. This is at Port Mac at my mums place a km or so off the beach. A few of them often stop and like chewing the old Coast Banksias next to her house and from there can see some tall Blackbutt that they sometimes roost in

I missed a great photo the other night when a flock of cockatoos flew overhead in a formation that looked like the outline of a seagull in flight.
Last here on a couple of occasions i have seen the black ones forming a ball just before a storm would hit us.
We get several types of honeyeaters here, three of those feed on the kangaroo paws in front of the kitchen window.
This is one I shot the other day just before it bounced onto another stalk :

Great Pic , is that Noisy friar bird ??

corvus wrote:Great Pic , is that Noisy friar bird ??

It is a great photo. Eastern Spinebill perhaps?

taswegian wrote:I was somewhat stunned today to see 20 Swallows lined up on the power lines to the pump house.
There could have been more about, but I counted 20.
No camera though.

I would never have thought that possible to see so many flocked together.

We had similar about a week and a half ago. Had about 30 or so Welcome Swallows all perched on an old metal frame. We often see 3 or 4 at a time but have never seen so many all at once.

Looks like it.
https://www.google.com.au/search?q=East ... gPWbq0HUQM:

The one in my photo is an Eastern Spinebill. I should have mentioned that.
But we do get several other types too.
This is another one, one that I don't know :

and the very common wattle bird :

Looks like a Lewins Honeyeater. Sings a nice tune too.

The top photo could be a White-eared Honeyeater.
Red Wattlebird below.