introduced species
1 starling 2 european goldfinch 3 sparrow 4 blackbird 5 diamond necked dove 6 my chooks 7 my pigeons

native birds common
1 crow 2 willy wagtail 3magpie 4 murray magpie 5 swallow (tree martin?) 6 blue wren 7crested pigeon 8 new holland honeyeater 9 galah 10 long beaked corrella 11 sulphur crested cockatoo 12 white cheeked (naped) honeyeater 13 wattle bird 14 red rump parrots 15 adelaide rosellas

native birds uncommon
1 noisy miners 2 black faced cuckoo shrike 3 white fronted heron 4 kookas 5 boobook owl 6 tawny frogmouth 7australian festrel (was nanking) 8 black shouldered kite 9 wedgy

Black Shouldered Kites are a lovely bird…. I have seen them up on the Atherton Tablelands.

pain master said:

Black Shouldered Kites are a lovely bird…. I have seen them up on the Atherton Tablelands.

the festrel would be interesting too LOL
its actually a kestrel.

we have those piercing screeching predators too – da de da – thinks —- i will get back ummm??

pepe said:

pain master said:

Black Shouldered Kites are a lovely bird…. I have seen them up on the Atherton Tablelands.

the festrel would be interesting too LOL
its actually a kestrel.

we have those piercing screeching predators too – da de da – thinks —- i will get back ummm??

Whistling Kite? Large Brown Kite, with a lighter, whiter “M” pattern on its wings?

pain master said:

pepe said:

pain master said:

Black Shouldered Kites are a lovely bird…. I have seen them up on the Atherton Tablelands.

the festrel would be interesting too LOL
its actually a kestrel.

we have those piercing screeching predators too – da de da – thinks —- i will get back ummm??

Whistling Kite? Large Brown Kite, with a lighter, whiter “M” pattern on its wings?

pain master said:

pepe said:

pain master said:

Black Shouldered Kites are a lovely bird…. I have seen them up on the Atherton Tablelands.

the festrel would be interesting too LOL
its actually a kestrel.

we have those piercing screeching predators too – da de da – thinks —- i will get back ummm??

Whistling Kite? Large Brown Kite, with a lighter, whiter “M” pattern on its wings?

peregrine falcon.

i know the pardalote and the thornbill and the very musical and elegant shrike thrush but they have not been seen here.

now the rest of youse can list your birds under this topic.

it will be interesting to have an idea of who flies where.

Peregrines are lovely, they can have up to a 50km radius from their nest in which they call their territory…

i’m told the peregrine has vanished and the brown eagle has appeared ??
and sometimes kurrawongs are seen up the walking trail

pepe said:

now the rest of youse can list your birds under this topic.

it will be interesting to have an idea of who flies where.

Crows, silver eyes, magpies, butcher birds, scrub turkey, rainbow lorikeets, scaly-breasted lorikeets, pale headed rosella, common koel, sacred kingfisher (I think), kookaburra, noisy friarbird, blue-faced honeyeater, noisy miner, rufus whistler, magpie-lark, willy wagtail, spangled drongo, black-faced cuckoo-shrike, welcome swallow, pied currawong, channel billed cuckoo, silver-eye, white faced heron. galahs, sulphur creasted cockatoos, corellas, creasted pigeons,starlings, common mynah, feral doves. we also get a few honeyeaters/fruitbirds and a finch that I’m not sure of. these include fly overs.

bubba louie said:

pepe said:

now the rest of youse can list your birds under this topic.

it will be interesting to have an idea of who flies where.

Crows, silver eyes, magpies, butcher birds, scrub turkey, rainbow lorikeets, scaly-breasted lorikeets, pale headed rosella, common koel, sacred kingfisher (I think), kookaburra, noisy friarbird, blue-faced honeyeater, noisy miner, rufus whistler, magpie-lark, willy wagtail, spangled drongo, black-faced cuckoo-shrike, welcome swallow, pied currawong, channel billed cuckoo, silver-eye, white faced heron. galahs, sulphur creasted cockatoos, corellas, creasted pigeons,starlings, common mynah, feral doves. we also get a few honeyeaters/fruitbirds and a finch that I’m not sure of. these include fly overs.

We hear a boobook at times as well.

you guys are just doing this to make me jealous, aren’t you? Just you wait until I am in my new place! I’ll be bird spotting like mad! lol!

Everyday Birds

Aussie White Ibis, Black Kite, Peaceful Dove, Blue Faced Honeyeater, Yellow Honeyeater, Brown Honeyeater, Figbird, White Breasted Woodswallow,

Regular Birds (weekly sightings)

Pacific Baza, Whistling Kite, Brahminy Kite, Bush Stone Curlew, Masked Lapwing, Red Tailed Cockatoo, Galah, Little Corella, Suphur Crested Cockatoo, Rainbow Lorikeet, Common Koel, Channel Billed Cuckoo, Pheasant Coucal, Laughing Kookaburra, Blue Winged Kookaburra, Forest Kingfisher, Rainbow Bee-eater, Helmeted Friarbird, Magpie Lark, Spangled Drongo, Black Faced Cuckoo Shrike, White Bellied Cuckoo Shrike, Australian Magpie, Great Bowerbird, Double Barred Finch, Nutmeg Mannikin, Yellow Bellied Sunbird, Common Myna

not so Regular Birds

Magpie Geese, Plumed Whistling Ducks, Pelican, Nankeen Night Heron, Straw Necked Ibis, White Bellied Sea Eagle, Swamp Harrier, Wedge Tailed Eagle, Little Eagle, Australian Hobby Falcon, Scaly Breasted Lorikeet, Pale Headed Rosella, Brush Cuckoo, Little Bronze Cuckoo, Southern Boobook, Dollarbird, Spotted and Striated Pardalote, White Throated Honeyeater, Black Faced Monarch, Leaden Flycatcher, Rufous Fantail, Willie Wagtail, Olive Backed Oriole, Pied Butcherbird, Mistletoebird…

introduced Birds

Mangolia Mallards!

pepe said:

i’m told the peregrine has vanished and the brown eagle has appeared ??
and sometimes kurrawongs are seen up the walking trail

brown eagle = brown falcon?

bubba louie said:

pepe said:

now the rest of youse can list your birds under this topic.

it will be interesting to have an idea of who flies where.

Crows, silver eyes, magpies, butcher birds, scrub turkey, rainbow lorikeets, scaly-breasted lorikeets, pale headed rosella, common koel, sacred kingfisher (I think), kookaburra, noisy friarbird, blue-faced honeyeater, noisy miner, rufus whistler, magpie-lark, willy wagtail, spangled drongo, black-faced cuckoo-shrike, welcome swallow, pied currawong, channel billed cuckoo, silver-eye, white faced heron. galahs, sulphur creasted cockatoos, corellas, creasted pigeons,starlings, common mynah, feral doves. we also get a few honeyeaters/fruitbirds and a finch that I’m not sure of. these include fly overs.

nice group Bubba, sounds very Brisneyland!

pepe said:

now the rest of youse can list your birds under this topic.

it will be interesting to have an idea of who flies where.

Magpies.

Something wot goes “too-woot”. Other ones sing n chirp.

bluegreen said:

you guys are just doing this to make me jealous, aren’t you? Just you wait until I am in my new place! I’ll be bird spotting like mad! lol!

You will do well at your new place. A set of bins (oculars) and a copy of Slater and you’ll be set eh?

pain master said:

Everyday Birds

Aussie White Ibis, Black Kite, Peaceful Dove, Blue Faced Honeyeater, Yellow Honeyeater, Brown Honeyeater, Figbird, White Breasted Woodswallow,

Regular Birds (weekly sightings)

Pacific Baza, Whistling Kite, Brahminy Kite, Bush Stone Curlew, Masked Lapwing, Red Tailed Cockatoo, Galah, Little Corella, Suphur Crested Cockatoo, Rainbow Lorikeet, Common Koel, Channel Billed Cuckoo, Pheasant Coucal, Laughing Kookaburra, Blue Winged Kookaburra, Forest Kingfisher, Rainbow Bee-eater, Helmeted Friarbird, Magpie Lark, Spangled Drongo, Black Faced Cuckoo Shrike, White Bellied Cuckoo Shrike, Australian Magpie, Great Bowerbird, Double Barred Finch, Nutmeg Mannikin, Yellow Bellied Sunbird, Common Myna

not so Regular Birds

Magpie Geese, Plumed Whistling Ducks, Pelican, Nankeen Night Heron, Straw Necked Ibis, White Bellied Sea Eagle, Swamp Harrier, Wedge Tailed Eagle, Little Eagle, Australian Hobby Falcon, Scaly Breasted Lorikeet, Pale Headed Rosella, Brush Cuckoo, Little Bronze Cuckoo, Southern Boobook, Dollarbird, Spotted and Striated Pardalote, White Throated Honeyeater, Black Faced Monarch, Leaden Flycatcher, Rufous Fantail, Willie Wagtail, Olive Backed Oriole, Pied Butcherbird, Mistletoebird…

introduced Birds

Mangolia Mallards!

Well that’s very organised.

Yeehah said:

pepe said:

now the rest of youse can list your birds under this topic.

it will be interesting to have an idea of who flies where.

Magpies.

Something wot goes “too-woot”. Other ones sing n chirp.

Too woot could possibly be a Koel.

If they’re in your area.

Yeehah said:

pepe said:

now the rest of youse can list your birds under this topic.

it will be interesting to have an idea of who flies where.

Magpies.

Something wot goes “too-woot”. Other ones sing n chirp.

Stunned all and sundry with my extensive and very detailed knowledge and acute observational powers, huh?!

bubba louie said:

Yeehah said:

Something wot goes “too-woot”. Other ones sing n chirp.

Too woot could possibly be a Koel.

If they’re in your area.

No idea. And I’ve never seen it. And only heard it when I’ve lived “in town”, never on the village acre or the bush block.

bubba louie said:

bubba louie said:

pepe said:

now the rest of youse can list your birds under this topic.

it will be interesting to have an idea of who flies where.

Crows, silver eyes, magpies, butcher birds, scrub turkey, rainbow lorikeets, scaly-breasted lorikeets, pale headed rosella, common koel, sacred kingfisher (I think), kookaburra, noisy friarbird, blue-faced honeyeater, noisy miner, rufus whistler, magpie-lark, willy wagtail, spangled drongo, black-faced cuckoo-shrike, welcome swallow, pied currawong, channel billed cuckoo, silver-eye, white faced heron. galahs, sulphur creasted cockatoos, corellas, creasted pigeons,starlings, common mynah, feral doves. we also get a few honeyeaters/fruitbirds and a finch that I’m not sure of. these include fly overs.

We hear a boobook at times as well.

I saw small raptor have a go at the doves roosting in the neighbours trees but I’ve no idea what it was. It was getting dark and i didn’t get a good look.

bubba louie said:

pain master said:

Everyday Birds

Aussie White Ibis, Black Kite, Peaceful Dove, Blue Faced Honeyeater, Yellow Honeyeater, Brown Honeyeater, Figbird, White Breasted Woodswallow,

Regular Birds (weekly sightings)

Pacific Baza, Whistling Kite, Brahminy Kite, Bush Stone Curlew, Masked Lapwing, Red Tailed Cockatoo, Galah, Little Corella, Suphur Crested Cockatoo, Rainbow Lorikeet, Common Koel, Channel Billed Cuckoo, Pheasant Coucal, Laughing Kookaburra, Blue Winged Kookaburra, Forest Kingfisher, Rainbow Bee-eater, Helmeted Friarbird, Magpie Lark, Spangled Drongo, Black Faced Cuckoo Shrike, White Bellied Cuckoo Shrike, Australian Magpie, Great Bowerbird, Double Barred Finch, Nutmeg Mannikin, Yellow Bellied Sunbird, Common Myna

not so Regular Birds

Magpie Geese, Plumed Whistling Ducks, Pelican, Nankeen Night Heron, Straw Necked Ibis, White Bellied Sea Eagle, Swamp Harrier, Wedge Tailed Eagle, Little Eagle, Australian Hobby Falcon, Scaly Breasted Lorikeet, Pale Headed Rosella, Brush Cuckoo, Little Bronze Cuckoo, Southern Boobook, Dollarbird, Spotted and Striated Pardalote, White Throated Honeyeater, Black Faced Monarch, Leaden Flycatcher, Rufous Fantail, Willie Wagtail, Olive Backed Oriole, Pied Butcherbird, Mistletoebird…

introduced Birds

Mangolia Mallards!

Well that’s very organised.

I grabbed a brochure from the Towntown City Council which lists all of Towntown’s birds, and I dot each one whenever we see one in Mangolia…

bubba louie said:

Yeehah said:

pepe said:

now the rest of youse can list your birds under this topic.

it will be interesting to have an idea of who flies where.

Magpies.

Something wot goes “too-woot”. Other ones sing n chirp.

Too woot could possibly be a Koel.

If they’re in your area.

I thought of Koel too.

bubba louie said:

bubba louie said:

bubba louie said:

Crows, silver eyes, magpies, butcher birds, scrub turkey, rainbow lorikeets, scaly-breasted lorikeets, pale headed rosella, common koel, sacred kingfisher (I think), kookaburra, noisy friarbird, blue-faced honeyeater, noisy miner, rufus whistler, magpie-lark, willy wagtail, spangled drongo, black-faced cuckoo-shrike, welcome swallow, pied currawong, channel billed cuckoo, silver-eye, white faced heron. galahs, sulphur creasted cockatoos, corellas, creasted pigeons,starlings, common mynah, feral doves. we also get a few honeyeaters/fruitbirds and a finch that I’m not sure of. these include fly overs.

We hear a boobook at times as well.

I saw small raptor have a go at the doves roosting in the neighbours trees but I’ve no idea what it was. It was getting dark and i didn’t get a good look.

Peregrine or Hobby Falcon matches that description. They lurve eating doves and pigeons. And they’re smallish and so so so fast.

Just a stab in the dark – there wouldn’t happen to be a website with recordings of birdsong?

Yeehah said:

Just a stab in the dark – there wouldn’t happen to be a website with recordings of birdsong?

Bound to be.

Yeehah said:

Just a stab in the dark – there wouldn’t happen to be a website with recordings of birdsong?

I ain’t sure, I think there is… but try here for fun.

Birds in Backyards

pain master said:

Yeehah said:

Just a stab in the dark – there wouldn’t happen to be a website with recordings of birdsong?

I ain’t sure, I think there is… but try here for fun.

Birds in Backyards

even closer…
Bird Top 40

pain master said:

Yeehah said:

Just a stab in the dark – there wouldn’t happen to be a website with recordings of birdsong?

I ain’t sure, I think there is… but try here for fun.

Birds in Backyards

Fantabulous, thanks PM.

Yep, seems I got me the Common Koel!

pain master said:

bubba louie said:

pain master said:

Everyday Birds

Aussie White Ibis, Black Kite, Peaceful Dove, Blue Faced Honeyeater, Yellow Honeyeater, Brown Honeyeater, Figbird, White Breasted Woodswallow,

Regular Birds (weekly sightings)

Pacific Baza, Whistling Kite, Brahminy Kite, Bush Stone Curlew, Masked Lapwing, Red Tailed Cockatoo, Galah, Little Corella, Suphur Crested Cockatoo, Rainbow Lorikeet, Common Koel, Channel Billed Cuckoo, Pheasant Coucal, Laughing Kookaburra, Blue Winged Kookaburra, Forest Kingfisher, Rainbow Bee-eater, Helmeted Friarbird, Magpie Lark, Spangled Drongo, Black Faced Cuckoo Shrike, White Bellied Cuckoo Shrike, Australian Magpie, Great Bowerbird, Double Barred Finch, Nutmeg Mannikin, Yellow Bellied Sunbird, Common Myna

not so Regular Birds

Magpie Geese, Plumed Whistling Ducks, Pelican, Nankeen Night Heron, Straw Necked Ibis, White Bellied Sea Eagle, Swamp Harrier, Wedge Tailed Eagle, Little Eagle, Australian Hobby Falcon, Scaly Breasted Lorikeet, Pale Headed Rosella, Brush Cuckoo, Little Bronze Cuckoo, Southern Boobook, Dollarbird, Spotted and Striated Pardalote, White Throated Honeyeater, Black Faced Monarch, Leaden Flycatcher, Rufous Fantail, Willie Wagtail, Olive Backed Oriole, Pied Butcherbird, Mistletoebird…

introduced Birds

Mangolia Mallards!

Well that’s very organised.

I grabbed a brochure from the Towntown City Council which lists all of Towntown’s birds, and I dot each one whenever we see one in Mangolia…

Marking them off on a brochure is even more organised I’d say.

You have mentioned most of what I see around home except for King Parrot, Restless Flycatcher and Spoonbill. There may be more but those were the ones I noticed right off.

bubba louie said:

pepe said:

now the rest of youse can list your birds under this topic.

it will be interesting to have an idea of who flies where.

Crows, silver eyes, magpies, butcher birds, scrub turkey, rainbow lorikeets, scaly-breasted lorikeets, pale headed rosella, common koel, sacred kingfisher (I think), kookaburra, noisy friarbird, blue-faced honeyeater, noisy miner, rufus whistler, magpie-lark, willy wagtail, spangled drongo, black-faced cuckoo-shrike, welcome swallow, pied currawong, channel billed cuckoo, silver-eye, white faced heron. galahs, sulphur creasted cockatoos, corellas, creasted pigeons,starlings, common mynah, feral doves. we also get a few honeyeaters/fruitbirds and a finch that I’m not sure of. these include fly overs.

we used to have silver eyes occasionally call in on our adelaide hills property.
i think i have seen the top knot pigeon here as well.
our bible is the very little read “study of birds of sandy creek conservation park and the old barossa goldfields from 1966 to 1993” by B. Hutchins

bluegreen said:

you guys are just doing this to make me jealous, aren’t you? Just you wait until I am in my new place! I’ll be bird spotting like mad! lol!

- come join us – i’m sure you will.

pomolo said:

pain master said:

bubba louie said:

Well that’s very organised.

I grabbed a brochure from the Towntown City Council which lists all of Towntown’s birds, and I dot each one whenever we see one in Mangolia…

Marking them off on a brochure is even more organised I’d say.

its pretty easy eh?

pomolo said:

You have mentioned most of what I see around home except for King Parrot, Restless Flycatcher and Spoonbill. There may be more but those were the ones I noticed right off.

oh oh oh – the spoonbill – my fav.

pepe said:

bubba louie said:

pepe said:

now the rest of youse can list your birds under this topic.

it will be interesting to have an idea of who flies where.

Crows, silver eyes, magpies, butcher birds, scrub turkey, rainbow lorikeets, scaly-breasted lorikeets, pale headed rosella, common koel, sacred kingfisher (I think), kookaburra, noisy friarbird, blue-faced honeyeater, noisy miner, rufus whistler, magpie-lark, willy wagtail, spangled drongo, black-faced cuckoo-shrike, welcome swallow, pied currawong, channel billed cuckoo, silver-eye, white faced heron. galahs, sulphur creasted cockatoos, corellas, creasted pigeons,starlings, common mynah, feral doves. we also get a few honeyeaters/fruitbirds and a finch that I’m not sure of. these include fly overs.

we used to have silver eyes occasionally call in on our adelaide hills property.
i think i have seen the top knot pigeon here as well.
our bible is the very little read “study of birds of sandy creek conservation park and the old barossa goldfields from 1966 to 1993” by B. Hutchins

we scored a puppy from Sandy Creek. Named one of her offspring Sandy…. but I digress and hi-jack.

The top knots that you have pepe are called crested pigeons up this way.

pain master said:

pepe said:

bubba louie said:

Crows, silver eyes, magpies, butcher birds, scrub turkey, rainbow lorikeets, scaly-breasted lorikeets, pale headed rosella, common koel, sacred kingfisher (I think), kookaburra, noisy friarbird, blue-faced honeyeater, noisy miner, rufus whistler, magpie-lark, willy wagtail, spangled drongo, black-faced cuckoo-shrike, welcome swallow, pied currawong, channel billed cuckoo, silver-eye, white faced heron. galahs, sulphur creasted cockatoos, corellas, creasted pigeons,starlings, common mynah, feral doves. we also get a few honeyeaters/fruitbirds and a finch that I’m not sure of. these include fly overs.

we used to have silver eyes occasionally call in on our adelaide hills property.
i think i have seen the top knot pigeon here as well.
our bible is the very little read “study of birds of sandy creek conservation park and the old barossa goldfields from 1966 to 1993” by B. Hutchins

we scored a puppy from Sandy Creek. Named one of her offspring Sandy…. but I digress and hi-jack.

The top knots that you have pepe are called crested pigeons up this way.

To continue hi-jack. Are you saying that you have a dog? Eh? Eh?

pomolo said:

pain master said:

pepe said:

we used to have silver eyes occasionally call in on our adelaide hills property.
i think i have seen the top knot pigeon here as well.
our bible is the very little read “study of birds of sandy creek conservation park and the old barossa goldfields from 1966 to 1993” by B. Hutchins

we scored a puppy from Sandy Creek. Named one of her offspring Sandy…. but I digress and hi-jack.

The top knots that you have pepe are called crested pigeons up this way.

To continue hi-jack. Are you saying that you have a dog? Eh? Eh?

sorry Pom, Sandy Creek has a Dog Sanctuary and in the Sunday Mail they used to post a picture of their puppy of the week, my sister say said picture, and ma and pa went and picked up the puppy. This was back in 1970something.

But Sandy Creek would be a good spot to see Magpies, Crows and the occasional Honeyeater.

pain master said:

pepe said:

i’m told the peregrine has vanished and the brown eagle has appeared ??
and sometimes kurrawongs are seen up the walking trail

brown eagle = brown falcon?

brown falcon falco berigora – how did you know?

top knot is not here so i must have imagined it.

pepe said:

pain master said:

pepe said:

i’m told the peregrine has vanished and the brown eagle has appeared ??
and sometimes kurrawongs are seen up the walking trail

brown eagle = brown falcon?

brown falcon falco berigora – how did you know?

top knot is not here so i must have imagined it.

brown falcon has a presence about it… not quite as stately as an Eagle, but it ain’t no harrier or kite.

There are only three Eagles in Australia or 4 if you include the PNG Gurney’s Eagle (seen sometimes in the Torres Strait). So down your way the Brown Falcon could often be confused as an Eagle.

pain master said:

pomolo said:

pain master said:

we scored a puppy from Sandy Creek. Named one of her offspring Sandy…. but I digress and hi-jack.

The top knots that you have pepe are called crested pigeons up this way.

To continue hi-jack. Are you saying that you have a dog? Eh? Eh?

sorry Pom, Sandy Creek has a Dog Sanctuary and in the Sunday Mail they used to post a picture of their puppy of the week, my sister say said picture, and ma and pa went and picked up the puppy. This was back in 1970something.

But Sandy Creek would be a good spot to see Magpies, Crows and the occasional Honeyeater.

I should have read it properly.

pepe said:

pain master said:

pepe said:

the festrel would be interesting too LOL
its actually a kestrel.

we have those piercing screeching predators too – da de da – thinks —- i will get back ummm??

Whistling Kite? Large Brown Kite, with a lighter, whiter “M” pattern on its wings?

peregrine falcon.

In Japanese it’s called the Hayabusa. After which they named my bike, the Suzuki Hayabusa.

The Hayabusa was brought out in 1999 to combat the Honda Blackbird. In Japan, the predator to the actual Blackbird bird is the Peregrine Falcon, AKA the Hayabusa..

8^)

My backyard was simply a patch of thistles when I arrived here, probably have got a photo somewhere..

I recorded sparrows, goldfinch stubble quail and the odd passing galah at first. by April when we moved in there were black shouldered kites resting on my makeshift clothesline, falme robins dancing on my heaps ofgrape marc etc.. over the next ten years the native bird population built to over 200 which I had reorded. Speaking to atwitcher about it he said: Surely you are exagerating, those numbers are weland type numbers..

I simply looked at him and said yeah this is a small mound of prior mallee country in a sea of rice farms and irrigated agriculture and my little mound is ringed with lakes and swamps.. so um I think it could be classed as a wetland.. Especially since there are three internationally endangered species that fly all the way from the northen climes of Japan and Russia, just to nest in my little swamp down there.

Then, there’s the nocturnal species..

colliewa said:

pepe said:

pain master said:

Whistling Kite? Large Brown Kite, with a lighter, whiter “M” pattern on its wings?

peregrine falcon.

In Japanese it’s called the Hayabusa. After which they named my bike, the Suzuki Hayabusa.

The Hayabusa was brought out in 1999 to combat the Honda Blackbird. In Japan, the predator to the actual Blackbird bird is the Peregrine Falcon, AKA the Hayabusa..

8^)

you learn sumthink new everyday…

nice one Roughy, makes me even more determined to one day swing by with camera and helicopter in tow…

Haven’t seen a goldfnch since I cleared the thistles. The sparrows are only here because the neighbours allow them to nest in their roofs.

for the last four years I’ve had these nesting above my carport. er; up there Here’s SOME rather crappy shots of them during mating.

Nice shots! Are they nesting in a Grevillea robusta? When Dinetta0 once talked about her fashionista daughter planting one of these in her garden near Rocky, I suggested that they were far too big a tree, and too messy for her neighbours liking. Well since then I have seen a few G. robustas around NQld and they do not nearly grow as well or as tall as those down in NSW and south…

And the Collared Sparrowhawks are fantastic, our Pacific Bazas are a very similar patterned bird, especially the pyjama stripes and the yellow eyes.

Yes, G. robusta. My FiL who was born at Coffs Harbour and farmed at Upper Corindi before the war, a Forester with state forestry over 40 years across half of NSW from Bulledelah to the Riverina.. said.. That’s the biggest and fastest growing silky, I’ve ever seen.

roughbarked said:

Yes, G. robusta. My FiL who was born at Coffs Harbour and farmed at Upper Corindi before the war, a Forester with state forestry over 40 years across half of NSW from Bulledelah to the Riverina.. said.. That’s the biggest and fastest growing silky, I’ve ever seen.

lets hope he has its roots out in those rice farms?

to keep on track, the birds are quiet at my place today save for the gentle sound of the peaceful dove.

At this time of year the spiny cheeked honeyeaters are the most vocal at dawn and the bluddy blackbird down the back, have to get rid of it before it annoys all my small birds.

off to work…

Interesting thread. I’ve been able to ID some of the birds I get in my backyard too. Particularly wattlebirds who frequent my patio, I’d wondered what they were.
Honeyeaters aplenty. There’s another like the honeyeater but it’s mostly pale pea green head and body, grey undersides. This green one’s particularly pretty.
Those spotted doves are many and they are the ones Max loves to catch. They don’t even panic when I get them off him and let them go, minus a few feathers! There’s a pair of lovey doves who sit on the patio floor with necks intertwined.

But I can’t ID the one I’d like to. It’s about magpie sized, mostly black or dark, I can’t tell what colour exactly though because by the time I hear it it’s gone in a flash, but it makes a distinct swishing sound as it flies. And it has a long tail. I hear it often and look up just to see it’s tail and dark body for a second.

There’s wetlands and bird clubs here, I shall have to contact one to ask what it may be.

As I don’t use any poisons about I’m seeing more bugs, but more birds too :)

Happy Potter said:

Interesting thread. I’ve been able to ID some of the birds I get in my backyard too. Particularly wattlebirds who frequent my patio, I’d wondered what they were.
Honeyeaters aplenty. There’s another like the honeyeater but it’s mostly pale pea green head and body, grey undersides. This green one’s particularly pretty.
Those spotted doves are many and they are the ones Max loves to catch. They don’t even panic when I get them off him and let them go, minus a few feathers! There’s a pair of lovey doves who sit on the patio floor with necks intertwined. But I can’t ID the one I’d like to. It’s about magpie sized, mostly black or dark, I can’t tell what colour exactly though because by the time I hear it it’s gone in a flash, but it makes a distinct swishing sound as it flies. And it has a long tail. I hear it often and look up just to see it’s tail and dark body for a second. There’s wetlands and bird clubs here, I shall have to contact one to ask what it may be.
As I don’t use any poisons about I’m seeing more bugs, but more birds too :)

there’s a lot of honeyeaters and that one with a swishing sound when it flies – does it sing?
a pair of binocs and “Slaters field guide to australian birds” are good chrissy presents LOL.

roughbarked said:

At this time of year the spiny cheeked honeyeaters are the most vocal at dawn and the bluddy blackbird down the back, have to get rid of it before it annoys all my small birds.

get rid of …how?

colliewa said:

pepe said:

pain master said:

Whistling Kite? Large Brown Kite, with a lighter, whiter “M” pattern on its wings?

peregrine falcon.

In Japanese it’s called the Hayabusa. After which they named my bike, the Suzuki Hayabusa.
The Hayabusa was brought out in 1999 to combat the Honda Blackbird. In Japan, the predator to the actual Blackbird bird is the Peregrine Falcon, AKA the Hayabusa.. 8^)

the peregrine makes its home in cliffs. thus when the local sand quarry was rehabilitated and all the steep cut faces disappeared so has the peregrine. it has a very big range tho’ so it’s seen occasionally.
good bike story.

there’s a lot of honeyeaters and that one with a swishing sound when it flies –
does it sing?
a pair of binocs and “Slaters field guide to australian birds” are good chrissy presents LOL.
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I’ve only seen it in flight Pepe.
I have binocs but by the time I hear it, I only get a fleeting glimpse.

bubba louie said:

Yeehah said:

Just a stab in the dark – there wouldn’t happen to be a website with recordings of birdsong?

Bound to be.

Has anyone mentioned this one yet?

http://www.birdsinbackyards.net/

Once you’ve found a likely bird, it generally has a distribution map and a sound recording, IIRC.

pain master said:

Yeehah said:

Just a stab in the dark – there wouldn’t happen to be a website with recordings of birdsong?

I ain’t sure, I think there is… but try here for fun.

Birds in Backyards

Oops :) Should finish the climb before replying!

Happy Potter said:

there’s a lot of honeyeaters and that one with a swishing sound when it flies –
does it sing?
a pair of binocs and “Slaters field guide to australian birds” are good chrissy presents LOL.
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I’ve only seen it in flight Pepe.
I have binocs but by the time I hear it, I only get a fleeting glimpse.

grass parrots here are hard to identify. i know the red rump but there others – elegant and blue winged parrots – that i couldn’t id.

pepe said:

Happy Potter said:

there’s a lot of honeyeaters and that one with a swishing sound when it flies –
does it sing?
a pair of binocs and “Slaters field guide to australian birds” are good chrissy presents LOL.
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I’ve only seen it in flight Pepe.
I have binocs but by the time I hear it, I only get a fleeting glimpse.

grass parrots here are hard to identify. i know the red rump but there others – elegant and blue winged parrots – that i couldn’t id.

I remember parrots as a kid in outback SA and they were so hard to get close to. But I’d guess the ones we get in this area are so urbanised they have become quite tame. I walk Max right past foraging galahs and they don’t flinch.

I remember parrots as a kid in outback SA and they were so hard to get close to. But I’d guess the ones we get in this area are so urbanised they have become quite tame. I walk Max right past foraging galahs and they don’t flinch.
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willy wagtail, murray magpie, swallows and sometimes the new holland honeyeater will allow me to get close (3 metres).

I still chickle about watching the willie wagtail try to land on Eric’s bald head. Skittered about and tried again and again then flew off.. yet Eric didn’t notice.

Happy Potter said:

Interesting thread. I’ve been able to ID some of the birds I get in my backyard too. Particularly wattlebirds who frequent my patio, I’d wondered what they were.
Honeyeaters aplenty. There’s another like the honeyeater but it’s mostly pale pea green head and body, grey undersides. This green one’s particularly pretty.
Those spotted doves are many and they are the ones Max loves to catch. They don’t even panic when I get them off him and let them go, minus a few feathers! There’s a pair of lovey doves who sit on the patio floor with necks intertwined.

But I can’t ID the one I’d like to. It’s about magpie sized, mostly black or dark, I can’t tell what colour exactly though because by the time I hear it it’s gone in a flash, but it makes a distinct swishing sound as it flies. And it has a long tail. I hear it often and look up just to see it’s tail and dark body for a second.

There’s wetlands and bird clubs here, I shall have to contact one to ask what it may be.

As I don’t use any poisons about I’m seeing more bugs, but more birds too :)

I need more info on the honeyeater, like what colour beak it has.

The large dark bird with the swish, sounds like a Currawong.

pain master said:

Happy Potter said:

I need more info on the honeyeater, like what colour beak it has.

The large dark bird with the swish, sounds like a Currawong.

Not a currawong, wrong shape tail. In flight this thing looks like a yellow wattlebird with a long tail, but they are confined to Tas only apparently.
I suppose when you look up everything looks black against the sunlight.

We were just watching a couple yellow honeyeaters flitting about the patio plants whilst we ate our tea :)

Happy Potter said:

pain master said:

Happy Potter said:

I need more info on the honeyeater, like what colour beak it has.

The large dark bird with the swish, sounds like a Currawong.

Not a currawong, wrong shape tail. In flight this thing looks like a yellow wattlebird with a long tail, but they are confined to Tas only apparently.
I suppose when you look up everything looks black against the sunlight.

We were just watching a couple yellow honeyeaters flitting about the patio plants whilst we ate our tea :)

you prolly already know this but red wattlebirds are quite dark(ish) with a long tail????

and you really need to get a photo of the yellow honeyeater, they have never been seen south of Brisneyland so one in Potterland would be newsworthy….

pain master said:

Happy Potter said:

pain master said:

I need more info on the honeyeater, like what colour beak it has.

The large dark bird with the swish, sounds like a Currawong.

Not a currawong, wrong shape tail. In flight this thing looks like a yellow wattlebird with a long tail, but they are confined to Tas only apparently.
I suppose when you look up everything looks black against the sunlight.

We were just watching a couple yellow honeyeaters flitting about the patio plants whilst we ate our tea :)

you prolly already know this but red wattlebirds are quite dark(ish) with a long tail????

and you really need to get a photo of the yellow honeyeater, they have never been seen south of Brisneyland so one in Potterland would be newsworthy….

Ok red wattlebird, now we are getting closer. I’m not a bird enthusiast so no I didn’t know that. The honeyeater might be a painted H too.. black and white with a bright yellow flash along it’s wing.

Happy Potter said:

pain master said:

Happy Potter said:

Not a currawong, wrong shape tail. In flight this thing looks like a yellow wattlebird with a long tail, but they are confined to Tas only apparently.
I suppose when you look up everything looks black against the sunlight.

We were just watching a couple yellow honeyeaters flitting about the patio plants whilst we ate our tea :)

you prolly already know this but red wattlebirds are quite dark(ish) with a long tail????

and you really need to get a photo of the yellow honeyeater, they have never been seen south of Brisneyland so one in Potterland would be newsworthy….

Ok red wattlebird, now we are getting closer. I’m not a bird enthusiast so no I didn’t know that. The honeyeater might be a painted H too.. black and white with a bright yellow flash along it’s wing.

yeah more detail is required for both birds…. sizes, white markings, all stuff like that. Although it is easier then identifying Eucalyptus!

pain master said:

Happy Potter said:

pain master said:

you prolly already know this but red wattlebirds are quite dark(ish) with a long tail????

and you really need to get a photo of the yellow honeyeater, they have never been seen south of Brisneyland so one in Potterland would be newsworthy….

Ok red wattlebird, now we are getting closer. I’m not a bird enthusiast so no I didn’t know that. The honeyeater might be a painted H too.. black and white with a bright yellow flash along it’s wing.

yeah more detail is required for both birds…. sizes, white markings, all stuff like that. Although it is easier then identifying Eucalyptus!

The Cheetham Wetlands, not that far from my town, are home to thousands of bird varities that I had no idea about.

Happy Potter said:

pain master said:

Happy Potter said:

Ok red wattlebird, now we are getting closer. I’m not a bird enthusiast so no I didn’t know that. The honeyeater might be a painted H too.. black and white with a bright yellow flash along it’s wing.

yeah more detail is required for both birds…. sizes, white markings, all stuff like that. Although it is easier then identifying Eucalyptus!

The Cheetham Wetlands, not that far from my town, are home to thousands of bird varities that I had no idea about.

it gets fun once you start…

pain master said:

Happy Potter said:

pain master said:

yeah more detail is required for both birds…. sizes, white markings, all stuff like that. Although it is easier then identifying Eucalyptus!

The Cheetham Wetlands, not that far from my town, are home to thousands of bird varities that I had no idea about.

it gets fun once you start…

Look up O’Rielly’s on facebook. They’ve got an update on their Bird Week.

bubba louie said:

pain master said:

Happy Potter said:

The Cheetham Wetlands, not that far from my town, are home to thousands of bird varities that I had no idea about.

it gets fun once you start…

Look up O’Rielly’s on facebook. They’ve got an update on their Bird Week.

O’Reillys is very well known amongst Twitchers as a great place guaranteed to see Riflebirds and friends.

pain master said:

bubba louie said:

pain master said:

it gets fun once you start…

Look up O’Rielly’s on facebook. They’ve got an update on their Bird Week.

O’Reillys is very well known amongst Twitchers as a great place guaranteed to see Riflebirds and friends.

Have you been there?

bubba louie said:

pain master said:

bubba louie said:

Look up O’Rielly’s on facebook. They’ve got an update on their Bird Week.

O’Reillys is very well known amongst Twitchers as a great place guaranteed to see Riflebirds and friends.

Have you been there?

Noooo, but know of many whom have and they like showing off their photos!

pain master said:

bubba louie said:

pain master said:

O’Reillys is very well known amongst Twitchers as a great place guaranteed to see Riflebirds and friends.

Have you been there?

Noooo, but know of many whom have and they like showing off their photos!

You MUSt add it to your list of places to visit.

bubba louie said:

pain master said:

bubba louie said:

Have you been there?

Noooo, but know of many whom have and they like showing off their photos!

You MUSt add it to your list of places to visit.

already there…. me thinks it maybe a stop on the painmaster roadtrip for 2011?

pain master said:

bubba louie said:

pain master said:

Noooo, but know of many whom have and they like showing off their photos!

You MUSt add it to your list of places to visit.

already there…. me thinks it maybe a stop on the painmaster roadtrip for 2011?

Pity you missed the deal on Cudo.

So, wot’s this then? ;)

roughbarked said:

So, wot’s this then? ;)

looks like a Chowchilla eye, but I doubt they climb trees nor are in your area….

pain master said:

roughbarked said:

So, wot’s this then? ;)

looks like a Chowchilla eye, but I doubt they climb trees nor are in your area….

Actually it is a western silvereye ;)

Some birds we see around here are.
Plovers, Magpies, Crows, Eagles, Nosie Miner birds (Native and pest), Butcher birds?, Honey eaters (I think), Cockatoo’s White and have seen two black ones around. Galah’s. Theres two Pelicans that land on the dam next door every now and then, Wild ducks Few more as well.

veg gardener said:

Some birds we see around here are.
Plovers, Magpies, Crows, Eagles, Nosie Miner birds (Native and pest), Butcher birds?, Honey eaters (I think), Cockatoo’s White and have seen two black ones around. Galah’s. Theres two Pelicans that land on the dam next door every now and then, Wild ducks Few more as well.

sounds good veg, if you get yourself a pair of bins and a copy of Slater, you will soon find that maybe you have a range of honeyeaters and the ducks next door might have some friends with them?

I’ve come to believe over time that I’ve been confused many times watching birds with naked eyes or at best if I anm lucky, with a camera.
Sure the ones that are common are easy to ID even from silhuoette but ones rarely seen are often confusing.

Now I am sure that what I see are two collared sparrowhawks nesting and two Australian goshawks visiting. I was assuming they were the same birds on many occasions because there are times when they are difficult to discern.

I’m pleased to announce that I have wedgetails back. They have been a part of my life and to have lost them was a bit devastating. Of course they don’t actually visit but they do soar over the area nearby and occasionally over my yard.

Whistling kites have been on the wane as well during the loss of rice growing and flooding in general. There is more rice planted this year than I have seen for two decades. They actually spray ordram from the air these days and it makes me feel ill. We get terns and all sorts of waterbirds you wouldn’t imagine in a desert. This is a desert /wetland cycle here. Walk away from where the irrigation is onto a dry hill and unless there is a waterhole.. it will be silent of birdsong often enough.

Black and brown falcons plus the fork tailed kites gather here when the rice is drained and stay on when the stubble is burned.
Swamp harriers are quite common in general when the water is flowing Spotted harriers come too but not in numbers. The little falcons do their aerobatics in the sky while the nankeen kestrels hover. Black shouldered kites seem to disappear after breeding season but arrive again next winter.
I’ve even recorded a black breasted buzzard. Peregine falcons nest just down the road less than 1 km from me.

In fact, it is a waterbird paradise if water is here.. and it is here this year. Apart from good rains so far, they have released environmental water into my local swamp. So, if I have time I’ll be down there trying to emulate our birdman .. Alternatively he can camp here and do it himself.

There are three internationally protected species that visit the swamp here so it is a listed swamp.

Actually when I think about it I have seen almost all of the diurnal birds of prey here apart from the brahimny kite, square tailed kite and the white breasted sea eagle.

Interesting it is to look up and see a white droplet spiral heading your way from the ever ascending ibis. Amazing how they also do that in sequence.

roughbarked said:

Actually when I think about it I have seen almost all of the diurnal birds of prey here apart from the brahimny kite, square tailed kite and the white breasted sea eagle.

Interesting it is to look up and see a white droplet spiral heading your way from the ever ascending ibis. Amazing how they also do that in sequence.

Gurney’s Eagle even?

pain master said:

roughbarked said:

Actually when I think about it I have seen almost all of the diurnal birds of prey here apart from the brahimny kite, square tailed kite and the white breasted sea eagle.

Interesting it is to look up and see a white droplet spiral heading your way from the ever ascending ibis. Amazing how they also do that in sequence.

Gurney’s Eagle even?

.. nope

did say almost all ;) I also know that I haven’t always been able to identify them so on those occasions .. who knows.

positively sure that I’ve never seen a letterwinged kite here nor the grey goshawk or the red. Osprey aren’t seen here either
Little eagle is uncommon but has been seen.

Anyway .. you have got the books You know what I can’t have seen.. so my statement should have been more.. I’ve pretty much seen all those I should be seeing.

There are three internationally protected species that visit the swamp here so it is a listed swamp.
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there was a time when swamps were avoided – now they are treasured.

i find predators hard to ID – they’re always so blinkin high in the sky.

I found out today that the common koel is a black bird. There were 2 birds flying around in the trees being chased by the noisy miners, That’s normal. They chase absolutely everything in the sky. In flight one of the black birds let out it’s call and it was the storm bird. The first time I have laid eyes on them. They were fast but I got a glimpse. I checked them out in my bird book and they don’t mention it as storm bird. It’s an Indian Koel or rain bird and a few other common names as well.

Made my day it did.

no Koels out here to my knowledge.

roughbarked said:

positively sure that I’ve never seen a letterwinged kite here nor the grey goshawk or the red. Osprey aren’t seen here either
Little eagle is uncommon but has been seen.

Anyway .. you have got the books You know what I can’t have seen.. so my statement should have been more.. I’ve pretty much seen all those I should be seeing.

we’ll forgive you roughy…

pomolo said:

I found out today that the common koel is a black bird. There were 2 birds flying around in the trees being chased by the noisy miners, That’s normal. They chase absolutely everything in the sky. In flight one of the black birds let out it’s call and it was the storm bird. The first time I have laid eyes on them. They were fast but I got a glimpse. I checked them out in my bird book and they don’t mention it as storm bird. It’s an Indian Koel or rain bird and a few other common names as well.

Made my day it did.

Awesome Pom, the sheila ain’t all black though…. and if you can’t buy a copy of Slater, get the Morcombe book.

roughbarked said:

no Koels out here to my knowledge.

maybe a very rare sighting in your neck of the woods Roughy…

maybe a very rare sighting in your neck of the woods Roughy…

>

it would have to be a dark and stormy night ;)

pain master said:

pomolo said:

I found out today that the common koel is a black bird. There were 2 birds flying around in the trees being chased by the noisy miners, That’s normal. They chase absolutely everything in the sky. In flight one of the black birds let out it’s call and it was the storm bird. The first time I have laid eyes on them. They were fast but I got a glimpse. I checked them out in my bird book and they don’t mention it as storm bird. It’s an Indian Koel or rain bird and a few other common names as well.

Made my day it did.

Awesome Pom, the sheila ain’t all black though…. and if you can’t buy a copy of Slater, get the Morcombe book.

I have a copy of Readers Digest Complete Book of Australian Birds. Got it second hand at the local markets. Probably a bit dated but good enough for my curiousity. Hardly a pocket guide though.

pomolo said:

pain master said:

pomolo said:

I found out today that the common koel is a black bird. There were 2 birds flying around in the trees being chased by the noisy miners, That’s normal. They chase absolutely everything in the sky. In flight one of the black birds let out it’s call and it was the storm bird. The first time I have laid eyes on them. They were fast but I got a glimpse. I checked them out in my bird book and they don’t mention it as storm bird. It’s an Indian Koel or rain bird and a few other common names as well.

Made my day it did.

Awesome Pom, the sheila ain’t all black though…. and if you can’t buy a copy of Slater, get the Morcombe book.

I’ve only got Gould’s book.

I have a copy of Readers Digest Complete Book of Australian Birds. Got it second hand at the local markets. Probably a bit dated but good enough for my curiousity. Hardly a pocket guide though.

pomolo said:

I have a copy of Readers Digest Complete Book of Australian Birds. Got it second hand at the local markets. Probably a bit dated but good enough for my curiousity. Hardly a pocket guide though.

We have Slater’s Field Guide to Australian Birds and it’s pretty much a pocket guide. Good enough for needs.

I haven’t identified many of the birds around apart from yellow wattle birds, magpie larks, galahs, occasional black cockatoo (think Glossy Black but never get close enough to tell properly), magpies, superb blue wrens, red-browed firetails (I think), kestrels, crimson rosellas, wild ducks, occasionall rainbow lorikeets and king parrots, robins. Had a wedgetail and a juvenile a couple of years. Also get a few water birds on the dam…plovers, herons, occasionally egrets.

all birds will come to water even if just a sprinkler in the back yard.

AnneS said:

pomolo said:

I have a copy of Readers Digest Complete Book of Australian Birds. Got it second hand at the local markets. Probably a bit dated but good enough for my curiousity. Hardly a pocket guide though.

We have Slater’s Field Guide to Australian Birds and it’s pretty much a pocket guide. Good enough for needs.

I haven’t identified many of the birds around apart from yellow wattle birds, magpie larks, galahs, occasional black cockatoo (think Glossy Black but never get close enough to tell properly), magpies, superb blue wrens, red-browed firetails (I think), kestrels, crimson rosellas, wild ducks, occasionall rainbow lorikeets and king parrots, robins. Had a wedgetail and a juvenile a couple of years. Also get a few water birds on the dam…plovers, herons, occasionally egrets.

those firetails are speccy – they might follow the wrens to here from the forest. they are usually in groups aren’t they?

pepe said:

AnneS said:

pomolo said:

I have a copy of Readers Digest Complete Book of Australian Birds. Got it second hand at the local markets. Probably a bit dated but good enough for my curiousity. Hardly a pocket guide though.

We have Slater’s Field Guide to Australian Birds and it’s pretty much a pocket guide. Good enough for needs.

I haven’t identified many of the birds around apart from yellow wattle birds, magpie larks, galahs, occasional black cockatoo (think Glossy Black but never get close enough to tell properly), magpies, superb blue wrens, red-browed firetails (I think), kestrels, crimson rosellas, wild ducks, occasionall rainbow lorikeets and king parrots, robins. Had a wedgetail and a juvenile a couple of years. Also get a few water birds on the dam…plovers, herons, occasionally egrets.

those firetails are speccy – they might follow the wrens to here from the forest. they are usually in groups aren’t they?

Actually I’m not sure they are firetails now. Just checked Slater’s and Google and the birds we get don’t seem to have the same amount of grey feathers as the ones in the photos and drawings. I’m not sure what they are now, but I usually only see them during the winter months in flocks of about 30 or so. They have a dark olive plumage and bright red beak…they are never still long enough for me to see their underneath plumage, but they are a type of finch. I mostly see them on the ground.

Actually I’m not sure they are firetails now. Just checked Slater’s and Google and the birds we get don’t seem to have the same amount of grey feathers as the ones in the photos and drawings. I’m not sure what they are now, but I usually only see them during the winter months in flocks of about 30 or so. They have a dark olive plumage and bright red beak…they are never still long enough for me to see their underneath plumage, but they are a type of finch. I mostly see them on the ground.
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the firebirds of the forest have red bellies and heads. a finch in big groups on the ground sounds right.

pain master said:

veg gardener said:

Some birds we see around here are.
Plovers, Magpies, Crows, Eagles, Nosie Miner birds (Native and pest), Butcher birds?, Honey eaters (I think), Cockatoo’s White and have seen two black ones around. Galah’s. Theres two Pelicans that land on the dam next door every now and then, Wild ducks Few more as well.

sounds good veg, if you get yourself a pair of bins and a copy of Slater, you will soon find that maybe you have a range of honeyeaters and the ducks next door might have some friends with them?

We have Binoculars, and a Bird book in the bookshelf.

AnneS said:

pepe said:

AnneS said:

We have Slater’s Field Guide to Australian Birds and it’s pretty much a pocket guide. Good enough for needs.

I haven’t identified many of the birds around apart from yellow wattle birds, magpie larks, galahs, occasional black cockatoo (think Glossy Black but never get close enough to tell properly), magpies, superb blue wrens, red-browed firetails (I think), kestrels, crimson rosellas, wild ducks, occasionall rainbow lorikeets and king parrots, robins. Had a wedgetail and a juvenile a couple of years. Also get a few water birds on the dam…plovers, herons, occasionally egrets.

those firetails are speccy – they might follow the wrens to here from the forest. they are usually in groups aren’t they?

Actually I’m not sure they are firetails now. Just checked Slater’s and Google and the birds we get don’t seem to have the same amount of grey feathers as the ones in the photos and drawings. I’m not sure what they are now, but I usually only see them during the winter months in flocks of about 30 or so. They have a dark olive plumage and bright red beak…they are never still long enough for me to see their underneath plumage, but they are a type of finch. I mostly see them on the ground.

sounds like Star Finch’s Anne, and if it is, then you are very lucky and have now become part of my “must-drop-in-and-see-Anne’s-star-finches-on-my-down-south-odyssey”. Star Finches are not as common as others.

pain master said:

AnneS said:

pepe said:

those firetails are speccy – they might follow the wrens to here from the forest. they are usually in groups aren’t they?

Actually I’m not sure they are firetails now. Just checked Slater’s and Google and the birds we get don’t seem to have the same amount of grey feathers as the ones in the photos and drawings. I’m not sure what they are now, but I usually only see them during the winter months in flocks of about 30 or so. They have a dark olive plumage and bright red beak…they are never still long enough for me to see their underneath plumage, but they are a type of finch. I mostly see them on the ground.

sounds like Star Finch’s Anne, and if it is, then you are very lucky and have now become part of my “must-drop-in-and-see-Anne’s-star-finches-on-my-down-south-odyssey”. Star Finches are not as common as others.

I don’t know PM….I don’t remember seeing the “spotted” plumage…also the main plumage seems to be a darker olive than what I’ve seen on Google. Wish I could get a photo but they are usually too darn fast. By the time I find the camera and then point and shoot they are gone :(

Have to hope that you make your odyssey in winter so there is a chance to see them. Are they migratory?

veg gardener said:

pain master said:

veg gardener said:

Some birds we see around here are.
Plovers, Magpies, Crows, Eagles, Nosie Miner birds (Native and pest), Butcher birds?, Honey eaters (I think), Cockatoo’s White and have seen two black ones around. Galah’s. Theres two Pelicans that land on the dam next door every now and then, Wild ducks Few more as well.

sounds good veg, if you get yourself a pair of bins and a copy of Slater, you will soon find that maybe you have a range of honeyeaters and the ducks next door might have some friends with them?

We have Binoculars, and a Bird book in the bookshelf.

well you’re set then, and you are used to getting up early. So does the early bird.

AnneS said:

pain master said:

AnneS said:

Actually I’m not sure they are firetails now. Just checked Slater’s and Google and the birds we get don’t seem to have the same amount of grey feathers as the ones in the photos and drawings. I’m not sure what they are now, but I usually only see them during the winter months in flocks of about 30 or so. They have a dark olive plumage and bright red beak…they are never still long enough for me to see their underneath plumage, but they are a type of finch. I mostly see them on the ground.

sounds like Star Finch’s Anne, and if it is, then you are very lucky and have now become part of my “must-drop-in-and-see-Anne’s-star-finches-on-my-down-south-odyssey”. Star Finches are not as common as others.

I don’t know PM….I don’t remember seeing the “spotted” plumage…also the main plumage seems to be a darker olive than what I’ve seen on Google. Wish I could get a photo but they are usually too darn fast. By the time I find the camera and then point and shoot they are gone :(

Have to hope that you make your odyssey in winter so there is a chance to see them. Are they migratory?

it looks like Anne either has Star or Red Browed Finches. Yeah, Red Browed can be Firetail or Finch. And not really migratory, more opportunistic and they follow the seed, and the water depending on the season.

You know, I had to look up Goldfinch after Roughy’s post, never heard of them before that…

pain master said:

AnneS said:

pain master said:

sounds like Star Finch’s Anne, and if it is, then you are very lucky and have now become part of my “must-drop-in-and-see-Anne’s-star-finches-on-my-down-south-odyssey”. Star Finches are not as common as others.

I don’t know PM….I don’t remember seeing the “spotted” plumage…also the main plumage seems to be a darker olive than what I’ve seen on Google. Wish I could get a photo but they are usually too darn fast. By the time I find the camera and then point and shoot they are gone :(

Have to hope that you make your odyssey in winter so there is a chance to see them. Are they migratory?

it looks like Anne either has Star or Red Browed Finches. Yeah, Red Browed can be Firetail or Finch. And not really migratory, more opportunistic and they follow the seed, and the water depending on the season.

You know, I had to look up Goldfinch after Roughy’s post, never heard of them before that…

Anne, here’s the Red Browed Finch or Firetail that I spotted up north a few weeks back….

pain master said:

pain master said:

AnneS said:

I don’t know PM….I don’t remember seeing the “spotted” plumage…also the main plumage seems to be a darker olive than what I’ve seen on Google. Wish I could get a photo but they are usually too darn fast. By the time I find the camera and then point and shoot they are gone :(

Have to hope that you make your odyssey in winter so there is a chance to see them. Are they migratory?

it looks like Anne either has Star or Red Browed Finches. Yeah, Red Browed can be Firetail or Finch. And not really migratory, more opportunistic and they follow the seed, and the water depending on the season.

You know, I had to look up Goldfinch after Roughy’s post, never heard of them before that…

Anne, here’s the Red Browed Finch or Firetail that I spotted up north a few weeks back….

I think the ones I’ve seen have more of the olive plumage…or maybe I’m just not observant enough :( I don’t remember them having that amount of grey

Hey PM http://www.mfn.org.au/lakeWyangan.html

roughbarked said:

Hey PM http://www.mfn.org.au/lakeWyangan.html

looks inneresting roughy, and could well fit into the great odyssey road trip.

pain master said:

roughbarked said:

Hey PM http://www.mfn.org.au/lakeWyangan.html

looks inneresting roughy, and could well fit into the great odyssey road trip.

Makes a note to contact the website author.. as the swamp depicted as dry

has had 200 gigalitres of environmental water put into it plus it has been a wetter than average year for a change.

pain master said:

pain master said:

AnneS said:

I don’t know PM….I don’t remember seeing the “spotted” plumage…also the main plumage seems to be a darker olive than what I’ve seen on Google. Wish I could get a photo but they are usually too darn fast. By the time I find the camera and then point and shoot they are gone :(

Have to hope that you make your odyssey in winter so there is a chance to see them. Are they migratory?

it looks like Anne either has Star or Red Browed Finches. Yeah, Red Browed can be Firetail or Finch. And not really migratory, more opportunistic and they follow the seed, and the water depending on the season.

You know, I had to look up Goldfinch after Roughy’s post, never heard of them before that…

Anne, here’s the Red Browed Finch or Firetail that I spotted up north a few weeks back….

He is beautiful. Feeding on the panicum seed too.

pomolo said:

pain master said:

pain master said:

it looks like Anne either has Star or Red Browed Finches. Yeah, Red Browed can be Firetail or Finch. And not really migratory, more opportunistic and they follow the seed, and the water depending on the season.

You know, I had to look up Goldfinch after Roughy’s post, never heard of them before that…

Anne, here’s the Red Browed Finch or Firetail that I spotted up north a few weeks back….

He is beautiful. Feeding on the panicum seed too.

Panicum eh? I learnt sumthink new today :)

and you’ve been talking to colonel panicum all along. ;)

GF added a new specie to our Mangolia list yesterday, she spotted a pair of Red Winged Parrots chomping on our sunflowers. If sunflowers bring beautiful birds like this into the yard, then perhaps we should grow more?

I know Cockatiels are in the area and to see them in the yard would be a treat, they are getting harder and harder to spot in the wild…

pain master said:

GF added a new specie to our Mangolia list yesterday, she spotted a pair of Red Winged Parrots chomping on our sunflowers. If sunflowers bring beautiful birds like this into the yard, then perhaps we should grow more?

I know Cockatiels are in the area and to see them in the yard would be a treat, they are getting harder and harder to spot in the wild…

Too many sunflower seeds aren’t good for parrots.

bubba louie said:

pain master said:

GF added a new specie to our Mangolia list yesterday, she spotted a pair of Red Winged Parrots chomping on our sunflowers. If sunflowers bring beautiful birds like this into the yard, then perhaps we should grow more?

I know Cockatiels are in the area and to see them in the yard would be a treat, they are getting harder and harder to spot in the wild…

Too many sunflower seeds aren’t good for parrots.

when they are wild birds and they have blossom and other seeds for fun, then my wee collection of sunflowers will not cause indigestion of these native birds. If it were a caged monkey and I was feeding it only sunflower seeds then yes, I would concur.

me and da missus were just sitting chatting on the verandah when a nankeen kestrel zooms past, low and fast, pursued by a willy wagtail snapping at its heels.

a once in a life time experience – it only lasted 3.654 seconds but we were both awestruck.

pepe said:

me and da missus were just sitting chatting on the verandah when a nankeen kestrel zooms past, low and fast, pursued by a willy wagtail snapping at its heels.

a once in a life time experience – it only lasted 3.654 seconds but we were both awestruck.

sweet:)

pepe said:

me and da missus were just sitting chatting on the verandah when a nankeen kestrel zooms past, low and fast, pursued by a willy wagtail snapping at its heels.

a once in a life time experience – it only lasted 3.654 seconds but we were both awestruck.

Brilliant!

bon008 said:

pepe said:

me and da missus were just sitting chatting on the verandah when a nankeen kestrel zooms past, low and fast, pursued by a willy wagtail snapping at its heels.

a once in a life time experience – it only lasted 3.654 seconds but we were both awestruck.

Brilliant!

life is like that when you don’t have a camera in hands.

I walked to my car to leave the workplace.. there is a male variegated wren trapped iside.. went in through the quarter glass and couldn’t work out how to get out again. I just got in the car and wound down the window then gently ushered him out. stressed enough he was.. he was probably worried that he’d lose his status with the females of his clan. Same thing later the same day.. a rufous songlark..

must remember to shut the quarter glass.

red winged parrot seen last week chomping on our sunflowers.

pain master said:

red winged parrot seen last week chomping on our sunflowers.

Beautiful colours. Aus parrots mightn’t have soft romantic songs but they sure are beautiful.

pomolo said:

Beautiful colours. Aus parrots mightn’t have soft romantic songs but they sure are beautiful.

what like the beautiful sounds of the NZ parrots???

pain master said:

pomolo said:

Beautiful colours. Aus parrots mightn’t have soft romantic songs but they sure are beautiful.

what like the beautiful sounds of the NZ parrots???

No, more like the european song birds.

pain master said:

pomolo said:

Beautiful colours. Aus parrots mightn’t have soft romantic songs but they sure are beautiful.

what like the beautiful sounds of the NZ parrots???

I just remember a husband and wife who emigrated to Aus, returning back to England because our birds were so noisy.

pomolo said:

pain master said:

pomolo said:

Beautiful colours. Aus parrots mightn’t have soft romantic songs but they sure are beautiful.

what like the beautiful sounds of the NZ parrots???

I just remember a husband and wife who emigrated to Aus, returning back to England because our birds were so noisy.

My Aunty (at first) didn’t like the Swans because they looked dirty all black, not like the elegant white swans of Europe. She changed her mine to the extent that upon returning to the UK she thought the White Swans looked like they needed some sunshine.

we now have a Great Bowerbird decide it is time to build himself a Bower in our yard…. First year Bowers can be a sad sight and can also be in poor locations. This guy is making up for poor location and shoddy workmanship with vocal noise! Poor bugger must be a young bloke and has no idea.

Might buy a pack of plastic Army Soldiers for him during the week.

pain master said:

we now have a Great Bowerbird decide it is time to build himself a Bower in our yard…. First year Bowers can be a sad sight and can also be in poor locations. This guy is making up for poor location and shoddy workmanship with vocal noise! Poor bugger must be a young bloke and has no idea.

Might buy a pack of plastic Army Soldiers for him during the week.

ha ha ha ha… the Ducks are checking out the Bowerbird’s Bower and he’s not too happy with them sticky-beaking around. Meanwhile, Blue-winged Kookaburra is having a good ol’ laugh!

pain master said:

pain master said:

we now have a Great Bowerbird decide it is time to build himself a Bower in our yard…. First year Bowers can be a sad sight and can also be in poor locations. This guy is making up for poor location and shoddy workmanship with vocal noise! Poor bugger must be a young bloke and has no idea.

Might buy a pack of plastic Army Soldiers for him during the week.

ha ha ha ha… the Ducks are checking out the Bowerbird’s Bower and he’s not too happy with them sticky-beaking around. Meanwhile, Blue-winged Kookaburra is having a good ol’ laugh!

Sometimes it’s good to just sit and watch and let the rest of the world go by.

pain master said:

we now have a Great Bowerbird decide it is time to build himself a Bower in our yard…. First year Bowers can be a sad sight and can also be in poor locations. This guy is making up for poor location and shoddy workmanship with vocal noise! Poor bugger must be a young bloke and has no idea.

Might buy a pack of plastic Army Soldiers for him during the week.

aww, get him some bright and silver christmas tree balls

pain master said:

we now have a Great Bowerbird decide it is time to build himself a Bower in our yard…. First year Bowers can be a sad sight and can also be in poor locations. This guy is making up for poor location and shoddy workmanship with vocal noise! Poor bugger must be a young bloke and has no idea.

Might buy a pack of plastic Army Soldiers for him during the week.

That should impress the ladies. :)

bubba louie said:

pain master said:

we now have a Great Bowerbird decide it is time to build himself a Bower in our yard…. First year Bowers can be a sad sight and can also be in poor locations. This guy is making up for poor location and shoddy workmanship with vocal noise! Poor bugger must be a young bloke and has no idea.

Might buy a pack of plastic Army Soldiers for him during the week.

That should impress the ladies. :)

keep me entertained for half hour or so!

pain master said:

we now have a Great Bowerbird decide it is time to build himself a Bower in our yard…. First year Bowers can be a sad sight and can also be in poor locations. This guy is making up for poor location and shoddy workmanship with vocal noise! Poor bugger must be a young bloke and has no idea.

Might buy a pack of plastic Army Soldiers for him during the week.

well he his decorating his Bower with the Murraya flowers, should smell nice and look nice then!

Yesterday morning 5 Sulphur Crested, 4 Bowerbirds, and a Common Koel were dining out on some fallen mangoes.

pain master said:

pain master said:

we now have a Great Bowerbird decide it is time to build himself a Bower in our yard…. First year Bowers can be a sad sight and can also be in poor locations. This guy is making up for poor location and shoddy workmanship with vocal noise! Poor bugger must be a young bloke and has no idea.

Might buy a pack of plastic Army Soldiers for him during the week.

well he his decorating his Bower with the Murraya flowers, should smell nice and look nice then!

Yesterday morning 5 Sulphur Crested, 4 Bowerbirds, and a Common Koel were dining out on some fallen mangoes.

We’re watching Kookaburras hole hourly. Babies must be so close to taking flight. Not really much chance of seeing the action as it happens I guess.

a Bush Stone Curlew once got run over by a car and his leg got broke, like my head. So he hopped into Mangolia and stayed a while. We tried to feed and water him and he slowly recovered and flew away. He came back for sanctuary a couple of times, and I notice this morning, he his out there again, hopping around on his one leg…. landing has got to be a pain. Good to see he his feeding himself and surviving.

pain master said:

a Bush Stone Curlew once got run over by a car and his leg got broke, like my head. So he hopped into Mangolia and stayed a while. We tried to feed and water him and he slowly recovered and flew away. He came back for sanctuary a couple of times, and I notice this morning, he his out there again, hopping around on his one leg…. landing has got to be a pain. Good to see he his feeding himself and surviving.

Like this one or is it the actual one?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t14YfXXXmvo

pomolo said:

pain master said:

a Bush Stone Curlew once got run over by a car and his leg got broke, like my head. So he hopped into Mangolia and stayed a while. We tried to feed and water him and he slowly recovered and flew away. He came back for sanctuary a couple of times, and I notice this morning, he his out there again, hopping around on his one leg…. landing has got to be a pain. Good to see he his feeding himself and surviving.

Like this one or is it the actual one?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t14YfXXXmvo

sorry pom, I’m back on dial-up so you-tube is painfull for me….

pain master said:

pomolo said:

pain master said:

a Bush Stone Curlew once got run over by a car and his leg got broke, like my head. So he hopped into Mangolia and stayed a while. We tried to feed and water him and he slowly recovered and flew away. He came back for sanctuary a couple of times, and I notice this morning, he his out there again, hopping around on his one leg…. landing has got to be a pain. Good to see he his feeding himself and surviving.

Like this one or is it the actual one?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t14YfXXXmvo

sorry pom, I’m back on dial-up so you-tube is painfull for me….

Well this one has only one leg too. I googled “curlew call” and he was there.

pain master said:

pomolo said:

pain master said:

a Bush Stone Curlew once got run over by a car and his leg got broke, like my head. So he hopped into Mangolia and stayed a while. We tried to feed and water him and he slowly recovered and flew away. He came back for sanctuary a couple of times, and I notice this morning, he his out there again, hopping around on his one leg…. landing has got to be a pain. Good to see he his feeding himself and surviving.

Like this one or is it the actual one?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t14YfXXXmvo

sorry pom, I’m back on dial-up so you-tube is painfull for me….

That’s not the Bush Stone Curlew Pom.

pomolo said:

pain master said:

pomolo said:

Like this one or is it the actual one?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t14YfXXXmvo

sorry pom, I’m back on dial-up so you-tube is painfull for me….

Well this one has only one leg too. I googled “curlew call” and he was there.

That one’s American.

bubba louie said:

pain master said:

pomolo said:

Like this one or is it the actual one?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t14YfXXXmvo

sorry pom, I’m back on dial-up so you-tube is painfull for me….

That’s not the Bush Stone Curlew Pom.

thank you Bubba. Now PM knows I don’t know a curlew from a peacock. I remember pm saying about the call of the curlew some time back and his post jogged my memory so I had a look and a listen.

pomolo said:

bubba louie said:

pain master said:

sorry pom, I’m back on dial-up so you-tube is painfull for me….

That’s not the Bush Stone Curlew Pom.

thank you Bubba. Now PM knows I don’t know a curlew from a peacock. I remember pm saying about the call of the curlew some time back and his post jogged my memory so I had a look and a listen.

This is what it sounds like.

http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/resources/nature/bushStoneCurlew.mp3
And what they look like.

http://www.australiazoo.com.au/our-animals/amazing-animals/birds/?bird=stone-curlews&animal=bush_stone-curlew

bubba louie said:

pomolo said:

bubba louie said:

That’s not the Bush Stone Curlew Pom.

thank you Bubba. Now PM knows I don’t know a curlew from a peacock. I remember pm saying about the call of the curlew some time back and his post jogged my memory so I had a look and a listen.

This is what it sounds like.

http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/resources/nature/bushStoneCurlew.mp3
And what they look like.

http://www.australiazoo.com.au/our-animals/amazing-animals/birds/?bird=stone-curlews&animal=bush_stone-curlew

They scare the bejesus out of foreign backpackers. LOL

bump

it started in the morning with willy wagtail flying so close to me i wondered how i had become so popular.

it wasn’t until ms p. and i were sitting outside that evening that we worked out why willy had been so aggressive all day.

willy was gathering allies in the fight against the newcomers.

a mob of yellow rump thornbills had arrived. diamond back pigeon sat still in the neighbour’s tree while new holland honeyeater, juvenile wattle bird and willie tried to harass the newcomers away.

not a chance – there were too many of them – they weren’t scared and their aerial acrobatics were the equal of any. new holland got quickly bored and flew off to suck pollen, wattlio had more grievances with willy then it had with the newcomers and the whole offensive fell apart.

welcome thornbills.

pepe said:

it started in the morning with willy wagtail flying so close to me i wondered how i had become so popular.

it wasn’t until ms p. and i were sitting outside that evening that we worked out why willy had been so aggressive all day.

willy was gathering allies in the fight against the newcomers.

a mob of yellow rump thornbills had arrived. diamond back pigeon sat still in the neighbour’s tree while new holland honeyeater, juvenile wattle bird and willie tried to harass the newcomers away.

not a chance – there were too many of them – they weren’t scared and their aerial acrobatics were the equal of any. new holland got quickly bored and flew off to suck pollen, wattlio had more grievances with willy then it had with the newcomers and the whole offensive fell apart.

welcome thornbills.

would like to see pics of the thornbills!

pain master said:

pepe said:

it started in the morning with willy wagtail flying so close to me i wondered how i had become so popular.

it wasn’t until ms p. and i were sitting outside that evening that we worked out why willy had been so aggressive all day.

willy was gathering allies in the fight against the newcomers.

a mob of yellow rump thornbills had arrived. diamond back pigeon sat still in the neighbour’s tree while new holland honeyeater, juvenile wattle bird and willie tried to harass the newcomers away.

not a chance – there were too many of them – they weren’t scared and their aerial acrobatics were the equal of any. new holland got quickly bored and flew off to suck pollen, wattlio had more grievances with willy then it had with the newcomers and the whole offensive fell apart.

welcome thornbills.

would like to see pics of the thornbills!

you’ve got them too? goes to check list of PM’s birds.

would like to see pics of the thornbills!

you’ve got them too? goes to check list of PM’s birds.
——
no – you don’t have them
so yes i would like to see your photos.

pepe said:

would like to see pics of the thornbills!

you’ve got them too? goes to check list of PM’s birds.
——
no – you don’t have them
so yes i would like to see your photos.

oh silly pepe, I was hoping you would take the photos, of your thornbills. Here’s my Striated Thornbill… taken in the ACT last year.

pain master said:

pepe said:

would like to see pics of the thornbills!

you’ve got them too? goes to check list of PM’s birds.
——
no – you don’t have them
so yes i would like to see your photos.

oh silly pepe, I was hoping you would take the photos, of your thornbills. Here’s my Striated Thornbill… taken in the ACT last year.

i’ve been trying but they are always on the move.
still give me time and i’ll do it.

pepe said:

pain master said:

pepe said:

would like to see pics of the thornbills!

you’ve got them too? goes to check list of PM’s birds.
——
no – you don’t have them
so yes i would like to see your photos.

oh silly pepe, I was hoping you would take the photos, of your thornbills. Here’s my Striated Thornbill… taken in the ACT last year.

i’ve been trying but they are always on the move.
still give me time and i’ll do it.

I try glue and formaldehyde.

i should devote these shots to the big, dead gum on my neighbour’s place. it is a mecca for birds on sunset -
P1 – a parrot – female red rump?
P2 – new holland honeyeater
P3 – murray magpie

pepe said:

i should devote these shots to the big, dead gum on my neighbour’s place. it is a mecca for birds on sunset -
P1 – a parrot – female red rump?
P2 – new holland honeyeater
P3 – murray magpie

Is that a baby new holland ? Ours are much darker.

P1 – my pigeons breeding and nesting in the chookhouse gutter – unstoppable breeders!
P2 – crested pigeon

pepe said:

i should devote these shots to the big, dead gum on my neighbour’s place. it is a mecca for birds on sunset -
P1 – a parrot – female red rump?
P2 – new holland honeyeater
P3 – murray magpie

cute birds pepe, nice ones… we discovered yesterday a Murray Magpie in a nest, both Mum and Dad took turns on sitting on the nest. I know why they call them Mudlarks up here now!

pepe said:

i should devote these shots to the big, dead gum on my neighbour’s place. it is a mecca for birds on sunset -
P1 – a parrot – female red rump?
P2 – new holland honeyeater
P3 – murray magpie

Looking keen there Pepe.

pepe said:

P1 – my pigeons breeding and nesting in the chookhouse gutter – unstoppable breeders!
P2 – crested pigeon

I remember when we used to call ‘em Topknots…

Happy Potter said:

pepe said:

i should devote these shots to the big, dead gum on my neighbour’s place. it is a mecca for birds on sunset -
P1 – a parrot – female red rump?
P2 – new holland honeyeater
P3 – murray magpie

Is that a baby new holland ? Ours are much darker.

ok – umm – i reckon you’re right – it is a juvenile?

pain master said:

pepe said:

i should devote these shots to the big, dead gum on my neighbour’s place. it is a mecca for birds on sunset -
P1 – a parrot – female red rump?
P2 – new holland honeyeater
P3 – murray magpie

cute birds pepe, nice ones… we discovered yesterday a Murray Magpie in a nest, both Mum and Dad took turns on sitting on the nest. I know why they call them Mudlarks up here now!

mud nests ? there are so many things to study.

this exercise in photography today showed me how much flight changes things.

birds perch high and then three flaps of the wings and high speed gliding – they are gone – fast – 100 metres away in less time then it takes to aim a camera.

pomolo said:

pepe said:

i should devote these shots to the big, dead gum on my neighbour’s place. it is a mecca for birds on sunset -
P1 – a parrot – female red rump?
P2 – new holland honeyeater
P3 – murray magpie

Looking keen there Pepe.

thanks pomolo – but altho’ good for me – not good like some.
are you watching ‘south pacific’? just amazing wildlife photography on that programme.

pepe said:

pomolo said:

pepe said:

i should devote these shots to the big, dead gum on my neighbour’s place. it is a mecca for birds on sunset -
P1 – a parrot – female red rump?
P2 – new holland honeyeater
P3 – murray magpie

Looking keen there Pepe.

thanks pomolo – but altho’ good for me – not good like some.
are you watching ‘south pacific’? just amazing wildlife photography on that programme.

I watched last nights episode. Not on here tonight I don’t think.

pomolo said:

pepe said:

pomolo said:

Looking keen there Pepe.

thanks pomolo – but altho’ good for me – not good like some.
are you watching ‘south pacific’? just amazing wildlife photography on that programme.

I watched last nights episode. Not on here tonight I don’t think.

i think it’s weekly. last night’s was great.

pepe said:

pomolo said:

pepe said:

thanks pomolo – but altho’ good for me – not good like some.
are you watching ‘south pacific’? just amazing wildlife photography on that programme.

I watched last nights episode. Not on here tonight I don’t think.

i think it’s weekly. last night’s was great.

I agree. I also David Attenboroughs “Cold Blooded” one today. Saw an Anaconda give birth to 15 live young. Apparently it’s not unusual for them to give birth to 40 young.

pepe said:

pain master said:

pepe said:

i should devote these shots to the big, dead gum on my neighbour’s place. it is a mecca for birds on sunset -
P1 – a parrot – female red rump?
P2 – new holland honeyeater
P3 – murray magpie

cute birds pepe, nice ones… we discovered yesterday a Murray Magpie in a nest, both Mum and Dad took turns on sitting on the nest. I know why they call them Mudlarks up here now!

mud nests ? there are so many things to study.

this exercise in photography today showed me how much flight changes things.

birds perch high and then three flaps of the wings and high speed gliding – they are gone – fast – 100 metres away in less time then it takes to aim a camera.

Mud nests indeed, about the size of a good cereal bowl… however with the cuckoos we have, we think maybe Mum and Dad Peewee might be raising a foreigny?

pepe said:

pomolo said:

pepe said:

i should devote these shots to the big, dead gum on my neighbour’s place. it is a mecca for birds on sunset -
P1 – a parrot – female red rump?
P2 – new holland honeyeater
P3 – murray magpie

Looking keen there Pepe.

thanks pomolo – but altho’ good for me – not good like some.
are you watching ‘south pacific’? just amazing wildlife photography on that programme.

That is a spectacular program, makes me think about getting a big flat screen tv for stuff like that!

pepe said:

birds perch high and then three flaps of the wings and high speed gliding – they are gone – fast – 100 metres away in less time then it takes to aim a camera.

ain’t that the truth pepe. I often here about a good location for birds and when I head there, I have a disaster of a day… I often find it takes a few visits to get a good vibe of where the birds may be. I call it practice.

pepe said:

i should devote these shots to the big, dead gum on my neighbour’s place. it is a mecca for birds on sunset -
P1 – a parrot – female red rump?
P2 – new holland honeyeater
P3 – murray magpie

Yes they love the high, dead trees for some reason…a treat for us when they do that :)

Happy Potter said:

pepe said:

i should devote these shots to the big, dead gum on my neighbour’s place. it is a mecca for birds on sunset -
P1 – a parrot – female red rump?
P2 – new holland honeyeater
P3 – murray magpie

Is that a baby new holland ? Ours are much darker.

Doesn’t look like ours, either…

Just outside my window was a Duranta, no great loss, but I then just spotted a Sparrowhawk amongst its fallen foliage… he then landed on some timber trellis and then flew off after I got my camera out.

pomolo said:

Not BoB but BoP.

We have seen the Whip Birds at last. They seem to be here to stay. They are spending lots of time wandering around our grounds where the trees are the thickest. Still not easy to see but now and again you get them in the sunlight on the ground. Best sighting so far has been just outside the computer room under the cycas. They don’t sit still much so we have to be quick. Their call goes on constantly. So strange to hear it just outside my window.

Other feathered inhabitants nesting here are a second sitting of Crested Pigeons. White headed pigeons also have a nest. We have a flock of about 30 Galahas that choose one of our gums to roost in every night. We love to watch their antics and call them the “kids” because we expect them to fly home as late as they possibly can before dark. We have a single pair of crows that have stayed in the area for summer. All the rest took off as they do each summer.

We still have Butcher Birds, Willys, Maggies, Water Hens, Wood Ducks, Black Ducks, Plovers, Storm Birds, Channel Billed and of course Miners. It’s strange that the Miners aren’t chasing the Whip Birds away. They don’t let anything new stay here long.

The Quacking Frog is no more but there are 7 Green Tree Frogs that hang out in the garden shed all day in the most frightful heat. Each evening you can hear each of them go “plop” as they land on the pavers to go look for dinner.

I must try to get a life.

Sounds like a gorgeous life Pomolo. :)

Great description and I am as green as your frogs with envy re: the Whipbird!

pain master said:

pomolo said:

Not BoB but BoP.

We have seen the Whip Birds at last. They seem to be here to stay. They are spending lots of time wandering around our grounds where the trees are the thickest. Still not easy to see but now and again you get them in the sunlight on the ground. Best sighting so far has been just outside the computer room under the cycas. They don’t sit still much so we have to be quick. Their call goes on constantly. So strange to hear it just outside my window.

Other feathered inhabitants nesting here are a second sitting of Crested Pigeons. White headed pigeons also have a nest. We have a flock of about 30 Galahas that choose one of our gums to roost in every night. We love to watch their antics and call them the “kids” because we expect them to fly home as late as they possibly can before dark. We have a single pair of crows that have stayed in the area for summer. All the rest took off as they do each summer.

We still have Butcher Birds, Willys, Maggies, Water Hens, Wood Ducks, Black Ducks, Plovers, Storm Birds, Channel Billed and of course Miners. It’s strange that the Miners aren’t chasing the Whip Birds away. They don’t let anything new stay here long.

The Quacking Frog is no more but there are 7 Green Tree Frogs that hang out in the garden shed all day in the most frightful heat. Each evening you can hear each of them go “plop” as they land on the pavers to go look for dinner.

I must try to get a life.

Sounds like a gorgeous life Pomolo. :)

Great description and I am as green as your frogs with envy re: the Whipbird!

Thanks PM.

well since the Cyclone, we can add Black Chinned Honeyeaters, Collared Sparrowhawk, Tawny Frogmouth and today we saw a Wompoo Pigeon, now he is truly lost.

pain master said:

well since the Cyclone, we can add Black Chinned Honeyeaters, Collared Sparrowhawk, Tawny Frogmouth and today we saw a Wompoo Pigeon, now he is truly lost.

Now could ou explain the Wpmpoo Pigeon please? I had the bird book out this morning looking up about the White Headed Pigeon because Mr and Mrs are building their nest in our Leptospermum bachyandrum, in the middle of the yard and about 3mt from the verandah. I happened to see Wompoo Pigeon in the book but didn;‘t read up about it. What did I miss.

BTW the pigeon nest in the L.brachyandrum is at a standstill atm because someones spoilt dog chased Mr Pigeon and they haven’t been back since. Dog got the rolled up TV Times and banished but the pigeons don’t seem to understand that. I was sooooo angry with dog. Ggrrrrr!

pomolo said:

pain master said:

well since the Cyclone, we can add Black Chinned Honeyeaters, Collared Sparrowhawk, Tawny Frogmouth and today we saw a Wompoo Pigeon, now he is truly lost.

Now could ou explain the Wpmpoo Pigeon please? I had the bird book out this morning looking up about the White Headed Pigeon because Mr and Mrs are building their nest in our Leptospermum bachyandrum, in the middle of the yard and about 3mt from the verandah. I happened to see Wompoo Pigeon in the book but didn;‘t read up about it. What did I miss.

BTW the pigeon nest in the L.brachyandrum is at a standstill atm because someones spoilt dog chased Mr Pigeon and they haven’t been back since. Dog got the rolled up TV Times and banished but the pigeons don’t seem to understand that. I was sooooo angry with dog. Ggrrrrr!

The Wompoo is a real rainforest pigeon, although he does habit the drier flatter woodlands, he loves the figs too much of the Rainforest… so to see one here is very cool. He is a bright green with a row of yellow stars along his wing, his head is grey and he has a orange beak with a yellow tip. A purple belly and he is quite the show! And at nearly 50cm from head to tip of tail, he is a big pigeon, one of Australia’s largest!

pomolo said:

someones spoilt dog chased Mr Pigeon

You’ll have to have a Word to Someone…

Damn I know how you feel…so near…

pain master said:

The Wompoo is a real rainforest pigeon, although he does habit the drier flatter woodlands, he loves the figs too much of the Rainforest… so to see one here is very cool. He is a bright green with a row of yellow stars along his wing, his head is grey and he has a orange beak with a yellow tip. A purple belly and he is quite the show! And at nearly 50cm from head to tip of tail, he is a big pigeon, one of Australia’s largest!

I just remembered, you like your pigeons… he hardly sound like a pigeon at all, with all those colours…are we to understand he’s a native of Oz?

Dinetta said:

pain master said:

The Wompoo is a real rainforest pigeon, although he does habit the drier flatter woodlands, he loves the figs too much of the Rainforest… so to see one here is very cool. He is a bright green with a row of yellow stars along his wing, his head is grey and he has a orange beak with a yellow tip. A purple belly and he is quite the show! And at nearly 50cm from head to tip of tail, he is a big pigeon, one of Australia’s largest!

I just remembered, you like your pigeons… he hardly sound like a pigeon at all, with all those colours…are we to understand he’s a native of Oz?

he is Australian, just loves the rainforest to which we don’t have a lot left…

pain master said:

pomolo said:

pain master said:

well since the Cyclone, we can add Black Chinned Honeyeaters, Collared Sparrowhawk, Tawny Frogmouth and today we saw a Wompoo Pigeon, now he is truly lost.

Now could ou explain the Wpmpoo Pigeon please? I had the bird book out this morning looking up about the White Headed Pigeon because Mr and Mrs are building their nest in our Leptospermum bachyandrum, in the middle of the yard and about 3mt from the verandah. I happened to see Wompoo Pigeon in the book but didn;‘t read up about it. What did I miss.

BTW the pigeon nest in the L.brachyandrum is at a standstill atm because someones spoilt dog chased Mr Pigeon and they haven’t been back since. Dog got the rolled up TV Times and banished but the pigeons don’t seem to understand that. I was sooooo angry with dog. Ggrrrrr!

The Wompoo is a real rainforest pigeon, although he does habit the drier flatter woodlands, he loves the figs too much of the Rainforest… so to see one here is very cool. He is a bright green with a row of yellow stars along his wing, his head is grey and he has a orange beak with a yellow tip. A purple belly and he is quite the show! And at nearly 50cm from head to tip of tail, he is a big pigeon, one of Australia’s largest!

It is beautiful. Had a look on images. My pigeons aren’t back to nest building and maybe they are gone forever. I have seen them watching the yard from the eucalyptus trees but they haven’t ventured back to the nest site. Back to watching the crested pigeons I suppose.

Thanks for the info PM.

pepe said:

introduced species
1 starling 2 european goldfinch 3 sparrow 4 blackbird 5 diamond necked dove 6 my chooks 7 my pigeons

native birds common
1 crow 2 willy wagtail 3magpie 4 murray magpie 5 swallow (tree martin?) 6 blue wren 7crested pigeon 8 new holland honeyeater 9 galah 10 long beaked corrella 11 sulphur crested cockatoo 12 white cheeked (naped) honeyeater 13 wattle bird 14 red rump parrots 15 adelaide rosellas

native birds uncommon
1 noisy miners 2 black faced cuckoo shrike 3 white fronted heron 4 kookas 5 boobook owl 6 tawny frogmouth 7australian festrel (was nanking) 8 black shouldered kite 9 wedgy

ms justin has spotted two new warblers and a quail during her holidays. the quail is probably living in the front garden and the warblers are (at least) visitors to the native corner.
the white naped honeyeaters had a fluffy white chick.

bird numbers and varieties are on the increase here -.mind you – insects, snakes, lizards and rodents are fairly abundant at present as well.

The whip birds are back in our yard. For the last couple of days they have been flitting about in our shrubs and trees and their call is becoming piercing on the ears. It’s a unique call and holds you spellbound but it can be hard on the ears after the first dozen or so times you hear it.

Not easy to see the little blighters but their plumage doesn’t match their call anyway.

pomolo said:

The whip birds are back in our yard. For the last couple of days they have been flitting about in our shrubs and trees and their call is becoming piercing on the ears. It’s a unique call and holds you spellbound but it can be hard on the ears after the first dozen or so times you hear it.

Not easy to see the little blighters but their plumage doesn’t match their call anyway.

I’m still envious. I would set up a bird hide to capture your friends on lens.

painmaster said:

pomolo said:

The whip birds are back in our yard. For the last couple of days they have been flitting about in our shrubs and trees and their call is becoming piercing on the ears. It’s a unique call and holds you spellbound but it can be hard on the ears after the first dozen or so times you hear it.

Not easy to see the little blighters but their plumage doesn’t match their call anyway.

I’m still envious. I would set up a bird hide to capture your friends on lens.

You’re welcome here any time.

pomolo said:

painmaster said:

pomolo said:

The whip birds are back in our yard. For the last couple of days they have been flitting about in our shrubs and trees and their call is becoming piercing on the ears. It’s a unique call and holds you spellbound but it can be hard on the ears after the first dozen or so times you hear it.

Not easy to see the little blighters but their plumage doesn’t match their call anyway.

I’m still envious. I would set up a bird hide to capture your friends on lens.

You’re welcome here any time.

too wet at the mo’… stay up here in the dry for the time being.

Cuckoos have returned. All of them. The little Brush Cuckoo is at my window calling for a root. He was keen this morning at sparrow’s fart too. Saw a Channel Billed Cuckoo fly over my house as I pedalled off to work, first one for the season and the Common Koels have started their noise in the build up to the wet.

painmaster said:

Cuckoos have returned. All of them. The little Brush Cuckoo is at my window calling for a root. He was keen this morning at sparrow’s fart too. Saw a Channel Billed Cuckoo fly over my house as I pedalled off to work, first one for the season and the Common Koels have started their noise in the build up to the wet.

blue wrens are getting more friendly – they are obviously living in bushes very close to our house and feeding young.

new holland honey eater is the other very familiar resident who explores the compost heap regularly but also seems to follow me around to see what i might unearth. i have started mowing the one and a half acres with my victor and this exposes many insects.

some big predators are hovering in the skies overhead – brown falcon? brown eagle? kite? falcon? – i can never tell.

justin said:

painmaster said:

Cuckoos have returned. All of them. The little Brush Cuckoo is at my window calling for a root. He was keen this morning at sparrow’s fart too. Saw a Channel Billed Cuckoo fly over my house as I pedalled off to work, first one for the season and the Common Koels have started their noise in the build up to the wet.

blue wrens are getting more friendly – they are obviously living in bushes very close to our house and feeding young.

new holland honey eater is the other very familiar resident who explores the compost heap regularly but also seems to follow me around to see what i might unearth. i have started mowing the one and a half acres with my victor and this exposes many insects.

some big predators are hovering in the skies overhead – brown falcon? brown eagle? kite? falcon? – i can never tell.

Eagles soar, falcons dive, kites hover.

Speaking of such things, I returned home from the opal fields to find this..

Kinda looks like farmer Jim(the hole in the window). I’d guess the nesting sparrowhawks gave chase and crested pigeon got up enough speed to commit hari kari on the other wall of the kitchen after making an entrance.

justin said:

painmaster said:

Cuckoos have returned. All of them. The little Brush Cuckoo is at my window calling for a root. He was keen this morning at sparrow’s fart too. Saw a Channel Billed Cuckoo fly over my house as I pedalled off to work, first one for the season and the Common Koels have started their noise in the build up to the wet.

blue wrens are getting more friendly – they are obviously living in bushes very close to our house and feeding young.

new holland honey eater is the other very familiar resident who explores the compost heap regularly but also seems to follow me around to see what i might unearth. i have started mowing the one and a half acres with my victor and this exposes many insects.

some big predators are hovering in the skies overhead – brown falcon? brown eagle? kite? falcon? – i can never tell.

Black Kites are ever present in my skies, they have a very distinctive tail shape, like a fish. Occasionally they fly down low to see how healthy the ducks are. They will never attack as they are a scavenger. A wallaby was run over on the road outside and this brought the Black Kites in for a feed. The Whistling Kites are always flying overhead too, they have quite the distinctive wing pattern underneath, but it is their whistle that is very distinct. A juvenile Brahminy Kite may look similar but not the same sound.

roughbarked said:

justin said:

painmaster said:

Cuckoos have returned. All of them. The little Brush Cuckoo is at my window calling for a root. He was keen this morning at sparrow’s fart too. Saw a Channel Billed Cuckoo fly over my house as I pedalled off to work, first one for the season and the Common Koels have started their noise in the build up to the wet.

blue wrens are getting more friendly – they are obviously living in bushes very close to our house and feeding young.

new holland honey eater is the other very familiar resident who explores the compost heap regularly but also seems to follow me around to see what i might unearth. i have started mowing the one and a half acres with my victor and this exposes many insects.

some big predators are hovering in the skies overhead – brown falcon? brown eagle? kite? falcon? – i can never tell.

Eagles soar, falcons dive, kites hover.

Speaking of such things, I returned home from the opal fields to find this..

Kinda looks like farmer Jim(the hole in the window). I’d guess the nesting sparrowhawks gave chase and crested pigeon got up enough speed to commit hari kari on the other wall of the kitchen after making an entrance.

Wowee! Poor Crested Pigeon… and the story behind calling a hole in the window; Farmer Jim?

“My” rainbow lorikeets, after about 2 months of entertaining me with their kissing and canoodling whilst hanging upside down from things, seem to have vamoosikated…I have been feeding them that Harmony mix straight, with plenty of water including a birdbath…

The kookaburras are back, this generally means cold-ish weather and/or rains…the sulphur crests have been hanging around the last couple of weeks, there is a singing honey eater that flits through the cherry guava outside my window…crested pigeons and of course the silver choughs…some little correllas landed out the front and ate the grass seeds…so I have put off the mowing for a while…the usual raptors circling overhead, they’re welcome to all the meece they can find…and of course our crows…will go and look up their proper names shortly…the blue-eyed ones…

Sad about the little pigeon RoughBarked: it must have been flying quite a pace to knock such a hole in the window…

painmaster said:

roughbarked said:

Kinda looks like farmer Jim(the hole in the window).

Wowee! Poor Crested Pigeon… and the story behind calling a hole in the window; Farmer Jim?

the hole in the window.. squint your eyes and have another look ;)

roughbarked said:

the hole in the window.. squint your eyes and have another look ;)

ahh! I see it now :)

I have had birds fly into windows, but not like that!

roughbarked said:

the hole in the window.. squint your eyes and have another look ;)

Could be Farmer Joe, or Farmer Bob even…:P

justin said:

painmaster said:

Cuckoos have returned. All of them. The little Brush Cuckoo is at my window calling for a root. He was keen this morning at sparrow’s fart too. Saw a Channel Billed Cuckoo fly over my house as I pedalled off to work, first one for the season and the Common Koels have started their noise in the build up to the wet.

blue wrens are getting more friendly – they are obviously living in bushes very close to our house and feeding young.

new holland honey eater is the other very familiar resident who explores the compost heap regularly but also seems to follow me around to see what i might unearth. i have started mowing the one and a half acres with my victor and this exposes many insects.

some big predators are hovering in the skies overhead – brown falcon? brown eagle? kite? falcon? – i can never tell.

Oooooh, gorgeous! New Hollands are my favourite bird, probably a contender for my favourite critter :) How lovely to have one who feels safe around you :)

roughbarked said:

painmaster said:

roughbarked said:

Kinda looks like farmer Jim(the hole in the window).

Wowee! Poor Crested Pigeon… and the story behind calling a hole in the window; Farmer Jim?

the hole in the window.. squint your eyes and have another look ;)

my eyes are hurtin’ from all the squintin’…

painmaster said:

roughbarked said:

painmaster said:

Wowee! Poor Crested Pigeon… and the story behind calling a hole in the window; Farmer Jim?

the hole in the window.. squint your eyes and have another look ;)

my eyes are hurtin’ from all the squintin’…

get GF to have a look :)

Channel Billed Cuckoo was in the Gum tree out back sitting next to a Black Kite. Nearby I think a Raven is building a nest in the Ironbark, but didn’t like the look of the Cuckoo, so it gave chase. A White Bellied Cuckoo Shrike came by to take a look at the commotion.

Re birds at my place.. there’s one that’s driving me mad. I’ve never seen it, but over the days I have check a many bird call site to try and ID it, but without any success. I’ve listened to hundreds.
It calls just on dusk and again at sunset and maybe once or twice during the day. I reckon it must be a fair size, it’s call can be heard over all the other birds. Now if I can just describe the call.. a loud ‘TOOK TOOK..then pip pip pip pip pip pip, TOOK TOOK pip pip pip pip’, trailing off. Sometimes three ‘took’ notes but mostly two. There’s only the two calls then silence.
What the heck is it?

Happy Potter said:

Re birds at my place.. there’s one that’s driving me mad. I’ve never seen it, but over the days I have check a many bird call site to try and ID it, but without any success. I’ve listened to hundreds.
It calls just on dusk and again at sunset and maybe once or twice during the day. I reckon it must be a fair size, it’s call can be heard over all the other birds. Now if I can just describe the call.. a loud ‘TOOK TOOK..then pip pip pip pip pip pip, TOOK TOOK pip pip pip pip’, trailing off. Sometimes three ‘took’ notes but mostly two. There’s only the two calls then silence.
What the heck is it?

Calls just on daylight, and then at dusk…

Happy Potter said:

Happy Potter said:

Re birds at my place.. there’s one that’s driving me mad. I’ve never seen it, but over the days I have check a many bird call site to try and ID it, but without any success. I’ve listened to hundreds.
It calls just on dusk and again at sunset and maybe once or twice during the day. I reckon it must be a fair size, it’s call can be heard over all the other birds. Now if I can just describe the call.. a loud ‘TOOK TOOK..then pip pip pip pip pip pip, TOOK TOOK pip pip pip pip’, trailing off. Sometimes three ‘took’ notes but mostly two. There’s only the two calls then silence.
What the heck is it?

What kind of pitch? Starting high pitch and then trailing off?

Calls just on daylight, and then at dusk…

painmaster said:

Happy Potter said:

Happy Potter said:

Re birds at my place.. there’s one that’s driving me mad. I’ve never seen it, but over the days I have check a many bird call site to try and ID it, but without any success. I’ve listened to hundreds.
It calls just on dusk and again at sunset and maybe once or twice during the day. I reckon it must be a fair size, it’s call can be heard over all the other birds. Now if I can just describe the call.. a loud ‘TOOK TOOK..then pip pip pip pip pip pip, TOOK TOOK pip pip pip pip’, trailing off. Sometimes three ‘took’ notes but mostly two. There’s only the two calls then silence.
What the heck is it?

Calls just on daylight, and then at dusk…

What kind of pitch? Starting high pitch and then trailing off?

should be here I think….

painmaster said:

Happy Potter said:

Happy Potter said:

Re birds at my place.. there’s one that’s driving me mad. I’ve never seen it, but over the days I have check a many bird call site to try and ID it, but without any success. I’ve listened to hundreds.
It calls just on dusk and again at sunset and maybe once or twice during the day. I reckon it must be a fair size, it’s call can be heard over all the other birds. Now if I can just describe the call.. a loud ‘TOOK TOOK..then pip pip pip pip pip pip, TOOK TOOK pip pip pip pip’, trailing off. Sometimes three ‘took’ notes but mostly two. There’s only the two calls then silence.
What the heck is it?

What kind of pitch? Starting high pitch and then trailing off?

Calls just on daylight, and then at dusk…

The TOOK notes are quite low pitched the the pips are high.

Happy Potter said:

painmaster said:

Happy Potter said:

What kind of pitch? Starting high pitch and then trailing off?

Calls just on daylight, and then at dusk…

The TOOK notes are quite low pitched the the pips are high.

female blackbird

roughbarked said:

Happy Potter said:

painmaster said:

The TOOK notes are quite low pitched the the pips are high.

female blackbird

No not it. I listened to sound files.

Happy Potter said:

roughbarked said:

Happy Potter said:

The TOOK notes are quite low pitched the the pips are high.

female blackbird

No not it. I listened to sound files.

OK Ive had this argument before.. I need your sound files.. not those of others. I have never heard any sound files of the female blackbird. it is a difficult bird to hear unless it is nesting in your yard. You just won’t hear it otherwise.

painmaster said:

Channel Billed Cuckoo was in the Gum tree out back sitting next to a Black Kite. Nearby I think a Raven is building a nest in the Ironbark, but didn’t like the look of the Cuckoo, so it gave chase. A White Bellied Cuckoo Shrike came by to take a look at the commotion.

Wouldn’t your raven actually be a torresian crow?

roughbarked said:

Happy Potter said:

roughbarked said:

female blackbird

No not it. I listened to sound files.

OK Ive had this argument before.. I need your sound files.. not those of others. I have never heard any sound files of the female blackbird. it is a difficult bird to hear unless it is nesting in your yard. You just won’t hear it otherwise.

http://www.birdsinbackyards.net/species/Turdus-merula

I’m one of those people who doesn’t necessarily accept that because it appears on the internet and purports to be the call of an English Blackbird female.. that it is truly what it purports to be.

In fact.. I’ve listened to said sound files and been heard to mutter “bullshit” under my breath.

roughbarked said:

I’m one of those people who doesn’t necessarily accept that because it appears on the internet and purports to be the call of an English Blackbird female.. that it is truly what it purports to be.

In fact.. I’ve listened to said sound files and been heard to mutter “bullshit” under my breath.

and i’ve just listened to them again.. I repeat.. there is no female blackbird on that sound recording.. those are all sounds only the male makes.

roughbarked said:

roughbarked said:

I’m one of those people who doesn’t necessarily accept that because it appears on the internet and purports to be the call of an English Blackbird female.. that it is truly what it purports to be.

In fact.. I’ve listened to said sound files and been heard to mutter “bullshit” under my breath.

and i’ve just listened to them again.. I repeat.. there is no female blackbird on that sound recording.. those are all sounds only the male makes.

another sound missing from that sound file is the call made between mother and baby..

roughbarked said:

roughbarked said:

roughbarked said:

I’m one of those people who doesn’t necessarily accept that because it appears on the internet and purports to be the call of an English Blackbird female.. that it is truly what it purports to be.

In fact.. I’ve listened to said sound files and been heard to mutter “bullshit” under my breath.

and i’ve just listened to them again.. I repeat.. there is no female blackbird on that sound recording.. those are all sounds only the male makes.

another sound missing from that sound file is the call made between mother and baby..

Take the time to get to know the birds around you. The pee wee’s do make the pee wee sound in stereo unision.. one bird sings pee, the other wee. and if two birds are sitting in the one view, one may also observe that in doing so each bird lifts both wings and drops them on utterance of the single call. Which added to by the partner, makes the whole call we normally associate with the name of the bird.

This also occurs in butcherbirds and others.

Getting back to your female blackbird.. it is nesting i your yard or very close to it. The call is only uttered at dawn and dusk.. or.. if you are coming too close to her nest.. or if another bird is doing the same. She is a shy bird that will prefer you don’t see her but will fiercely defend her realm against all other birds.

There are other birds that make similar sounds. However my money is on the female blackbird due to several factors. The first is that the sound is reported only at dawn and dusk. Second, I doubt that you have spiny cheeked honeyeaters nor making those calls at that time.

bubba louie said:

painmaster said:

Channel Billed Cuckoo was in the Gum tree out back sitting next to a Black Kite. Nearby I think a Raven is building a nest in the Ironbark, but didn’t like the look of the Cuckoo, so it gave chase. A White Bellied Cuckoo Shrike came by to take a look at the commotion.

Wouldn’t your raven actually be a torresian crow?

We are right on the edge of Australian Raven territory, and yes the Torresian Crow is more popular up here, I did notice yesterday a juvenile with a slight bluish tinge to its eye, and I believe it is only the Aust Raven that has this feature as it is growing up… and its hackles were very pronounced yesterday which also lends me to thinking I have a family of Ravens.

However, I was not 100% sure when I typed my original post so I took the safer option of calling it a Raven.

painmaster said:

bubba louie said:

painmaster said:

Channel Billed Cuckoo was in the Gum tree out back sitting next to a Black Kite. Nearby I think a Raven is building a nest in the Ironbark, but didn’t like the look of the Cuckoo, so it gave chase. A White Bellied Cuckoo Shrike came by to take a look at the commotion.

Wouldn’t your raven actually be a torresian crow?

We are right on the edge of Australian Raven territory, and yes the Torresian Crow is more popular up here, I did notice yesterday a juvenile with a slight bluish tinge to its eye, and I believe it is only the Aust Raven that has this feature as it is growing up… and its hackles were very pronounced yesterday which also lends me to thinking I have a family of Ravens.

However, I was not 100% sure when I typed my original post so I took the safer option of calling it a Raven.

I’ve always called ours crows. It never even occurred to me that we could have ravens.

bubba louie said:

painmaster said:

bubba louie said:

Wouldn’t your raven actually be a torresian crow?

We are right on the edge of Australian Raven territory, and yes the Torresian Crow is more popular up here, I did notice yesterday a juvenile with a slight bluish tinge to its eye, and I believe it is only the Aust Raven that has this feature as it is growing up… and its hackles were very pronounced yesterday which also lends me to thinking I have a family of Ravens.

However, I was not 100% sure when I typed my original post so I took the safer option of calling it a Raven.

I’ve always called ours crows. It never even occurred to me that we could have ravens.

when you count them up.. you’ll find that we have more ravens than crows.

roughbarked said:

bubba louie said:

painmaster said:

We are right on the edge of Australian Raven territory, and yes the Torresian Crow is more popular up here, I did notice yesterday a juvenile with a slight bluish tinge to its eye, and I believe it is only the Aust Raven that has this feature as it is growing up… and its hackles were very pronounced yesterday which also lends me to thinking I have a family of Ravens.

However, I was not 100% sure when I typed my original post so I took the safer option of calling it a Raven.

I’ve always called ours crows. It never even occurred to me that we could have ravens.

when you count them up.. you’ll find that we have more ravens than crows.

I know but I thought the ravens were further south.

bubba louie said:

roughbarked said:

bubba louie said:

I’ve always called ours crows. It never even occurred to me that we could have ravens.

when you count them up.. you’ll find that we have more ravens than crows.

I know but I thought the ravens were further south.

You’d have to be right on the mid to upper Queensland east coast to not see an Australian Raven.. and know it was a torresian crow.

I thought we had blue-eyed crows, thought they were currawongs, but was wrong…forget what they are now…

Here I go:

Torresian Crow (Corvus orru)

I’ve had sulphur crests hanging around too, eating the sunflower seeds out of the chooks feed…one of them perches so it can listen to us, and when I speak to it, it cocks its’ head … I asked MrD but he said no it wasn’t talking, even tho it opens its’ beak in “reply” to my speech…

if you talk to parrots regularly they’ll probably try to memorise your sounds.

I chat with the major mitchells and the magpies

:)

roughbarked said:

bubba louie said:

roughbarked said:

when you count them up.. you’ll find that we have more ravens than crows.

I know but I thought the ravens were further south.

You’d have to be right on the mid to upper Queensland east coast to not see an Australian Raven.. and know it was a torresian crow.

If it’s call is Ark Ark, then it’s a crow to me.

Here the pee wees(don’t know where they found mud to lark in).. harass a dawn sitting wedgie..

roughbarked said:

Here the pee wees(don’t know where they found mud to lark in).. harass a dawn sitting wedgie..

Perched on a right angle tree. lol.

pomolo said:

roughbarked said:

Here the pee wees(don’t know where they found mud to lark in).. harass a dawn sitting wedgie..

Perched on a right angle tree. lol.

Yair.. the TV antenna looks the same and my mate said that the wedge tail must sit on it too much.. I blame the winds.

bubba louie said:

painmaster said:

bubba louie said:

Wouldn’t your raven actually be a torresian crow?

We are right on the edge of Australian Raven territory, and yes the Torresian Crow is more popular up here, I did notice yesterday a juvenile with a slight bluish tinge to its eye, and I believe it is only the Aust Raven that has this feature as it is growing up… and its hackles were very pronounced yesterday which also lends me to thinking I have a family of Ravens.

However, I was not 100% sure when I typed my original post so I took the safer option of calling it a Raven.

I’ve always called ours crows. It never even occurred to me that we could have ravens.

the differences are ever so slight… there are 5 Corvus in Australia

roughbarked said:

bubba louie said:

painmaster said:

We are right on the edge of Australian Raven territory, and yes the Torresian Crow is more popular up here, I did notice yesterday a juvenile with a slight bluish tinge to its eye, and I believe it is only the Aust Raven that has this feature as it is growing up… and its hackles were very pronounced yesterday which also lends me to thinking I have a family of Ravens.

However, I was not 100% sure when I typed my original post so I took the safer option of calling it a Raven.

I’ve always called ours crows. It never even occurred to me that we could have ravens.

when you count them up.. you’ll find that we have more ravens than crows.

3 to 2 in regards to species…

Dinetta said:

I thought we had blue-eyed crows, thought they were currawongs, but was wrong…forget what they are now…

that would be a juvenile Australian Raven, Corvus coronoides.

painmaster said:

roughbarked said:

bubba louie said:

I’ve always called ours crows. It never even occurred to me that we could have ravens.

when you count them up.. you’ll find that we have more ravens than crows.

3 to 2 in regards to species…

Yes. However, the ravens outnumber crows even more when you overlap their ranges.

well not at my place, but at Betty’s Lodge high up on the highest mountain of Papua New Guinea. Was a cute little bird.

painmaster said:

well not at my place, but at Betty’s Lodge high up on the highest mountain of Papua New Guinea. Was a cute little bird.

lovely :)

painmaster said:

well not at my place, but at Betty’s Lodge high up on the highest mountain of Papua New Guinea. Was a cute little bird.

nice
i saw the piping shrike on a neighbours fence this week – and its wings were fanned out in a stretch – just like the shriking pipe pose !

justin said:

painmaster said:

well not at my place, but at Betty’s Lodge high up on the highest mountain of Papua New Guinea. Was a cute little bird.

nice
i saw the piping shrike on a neighbours fence this week – and its wings were fanned out in a stretch – just like the shriking pipe pose !

Sounds cool Mr Justin.

Saw these guys down at the old Quarantine Station today.

There’s a singing honey eater lurking around my cherry guava…s/he sat on the strut of my window sun shades and I could see the throat working a treat…there is also a blue-faced honey eater lurking, but this one can eat the commercial nectar-bird feed mix that I put out…would the singing honey eater be helping itself to the massively-blooming cadagai gum in the neighbour’s back yard?

pepe said:

pain master said:

pepe said:

the festrel would be interesting too LOL
its actually a kestrel.

we have those piercing screeching predators too – da de da – thinks —- i will get back ummm??

Whistling Kite? Large Brown Kite, with a lighter, whiter “M” pattern on its wings?

peregrine falcon.

i know the pardalote and the thornbill and the very musical and elegant shrike thrush but they have not been seen here.

a pair of shrike thrust spend a long time serenading each other – close by me – as i stomped on the spent broad beans. i think they were hiding from aerial attacks in the contorted, intertwined almond sticks
(psst – this topic dates back to ’010!)

justin said:

(psst – this topic dates back to ’010!)

Suffers from Bad Penny Syndrome apparently… but we’ve got a soft spot for it I think…

Lovely that your fruit trees are providing shelter for the birdies…

Not in my place, no but this should bring a smile to your dial…

You can almost hear the “whee!!”

Dinetta said:

Not in my place, no but this should bring a smile to your dial…

wow – crazy little blackbirds i presume.

the blackbirds here look like the cartoons in ‘spy’ magazine.
they are darting about furtively – in and out of the shrubbery – looking just like villains.

Just outside my window, the Bowerbird has decided to build a new Bower. The one in the front yard has been successful, there were kiddie Bowerbirds around in the past 12 months but I think the new location is better real estate. It is under a pine tree which the male Bower has used as a display tree so maybe by having his Bower nearby will double his chances at finding a friend? It is only partially built but he has found a long pink ribbon in which to decorate his new boudoir.

The Red Tailed Black Cockatoos have been noisy of late.

Saw a female Common Koel on the ground chewing on a fallen mango yesterday which was a cool sight, you rarely see them in a vulnerable position, they’re often flighty and in the trees.

A Sulphur Crested Cockatoo has been enjoying the Mangoes of late, and he is a beautifully clean bird with an impressive comb.

The Channel Billed Cuckoos are also noisy and have been chased from tree to tree by every other bird imaginable.

painmaster said:

Just outside my window, the Bowerbird has decided to build a new Bower. The one in the front yard has been successful, there were kiddie Bowerbirds around in the past 12 months but I think the new location is better real estate. It is under a pine tree which the male Bower has used as a display tree so maybe by having his Bower nearby will double his chances at finding a friend? It is only partially built but he has found a long pink ribbon in which to decorate his new boudoir.

The Red Tailed Black Cockatoos have been noisy of late.

Saw a female Common Koel on the ground chewing on a fallen mango yesterday which was a cool sight, you rarely see them in a vulnerable position, they’re often flighty and in the trees.

A Sulphur Crested Cockatoo has been enjoying the Mangoes of late, and he is a beautifully clean bird with an impressive comb.

The Channel Billed Cuckoos are also noisy and have been chased from tree to tree by every other bird imaginable.

:) such delightfully different birds than I get here. Though I’d prefer major mitchell to sulphur crested on any day, the white cockies are magnificent birds if only they didn’t sound like they are being murdered with an axe..

Pied Currajong at the Botanic Gardens today.

even blacker… Australian Raven.

painmaster said:

Pied Currajong at the Botanic Gardens today.

great shot!

bluegreen said:

painmaster said:

Pied Currajong at the Botanic Gardens today.

great shot!

I lined him up for the shot as he was sitting still and he stared into the lens and stretched his wings and then returned to the resting position. Quite a moment.

painmaster said:

I lined him up for the shot as he was sitting still and he stared into the lens and stretched his wings and then returned to the resting position. Quite a moment.

a bit of a poser, do you think? lol!

bluegreen said:

painmaster said:

I lined him up for the shot as he was sitting still and he stared into the lens and stretched his wings and then returned to the resting position. Quite a moment.

a bit of a poser, do you think? lol!

definitely.

bluegreen said:

painmaster said:

I lined him up for the shot as he was sitting still and he stared into the lens and stretched his wings and then returned to the resting position. Quite a moment.

a bit of a poser, do you think? lol!

Terrific pic :) Definitely a poser lol.

painmaster said:

Pied Currajong at the Botanic Gardens today.

wow – it looks big and mean. saw one/s of them on our walk in sandy creek Saturday.

painmaster said:

even blacker… Australian Raven.

lucky that it’s shiny – else it would be very sombre indeed – nice one.

painmaster said:

Pied Currajong at the Botanic Gardens today.

Nice.. baby wun?

painmaster said:

even blacker… Australian Raven.

Black is black…