Birds in the Australian Capital Territory

One more from the Namadgi Visitors Centre. This is at the foot of Mt Tennant.
White-throated gerygone. I wish I could photograph its beautiful song, but you can hear it here.

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andrewhuxman wrote in post #15947650
Great title for your pelican image. Wow beautiful shots of beautiful birds .

grizzerbear wrote in post #15947658
Beautiful captures here, callumbrae and rawshorty!
One more reason to want to visit your beautiful country! Your native birds display some awesome coloration.
The sitella certainly resembles our nuthatches with his head down “Australian rappel” position. Keep ‘em coming!

Thanks Andrew.
Thanks Barry, your welcome to come over any time you want.

callumbrae wrote in post #15947606
Nice one, Shorty. I've tried to encourage these little fellows, but limited space and bird-unfriendly gardens over the fence have blessed me with sparrows and mynas instead. Good job we have so many tracts of bushland running through the capital.

Do you supply water for the birds? I found I started to get a lot more around when I set up two small bird baths.

Here is a pic of my bath, Red-Browed Finch and Silvereye.

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rawshorty wrote in post #15948764
Do you supply water for the birds? I found I started to get a lot more around when I set up two small bird baths.

Here is a pic of my bath, Red-Browed Finch and Silvereye.

Yes, I have water baths front and back. The birds do use them, just not the wee ones that like a lot of thick bushes and long grass. That is a terrific couple of shots of the finches and silvereyes in your bird bath. Never seen so many taking a dip together.
Here is a solitary juvenile spotted pardalote on one of the very hot days we had in January. Three of them sat within a couple of metres of the water bucket all day.

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One from Symonston: female leaden flycatcher.

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Those are terrific shots.
Jerrabomberra Wetlands, Fyshwick.

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Bless you Shorty, we were both at the same place last summer! Great shots too. Just after Christmas at the same place my 7D decided to wipe my CF card just as I filled it up, and my buff-banded rail went west with everything else. After the second episode in 2 days, and the third in total I gave the 7D the axe and got a 5D Mk III.
Bit of an oldie, but while we are on water birds, this little pied cormorant was at Norgrove Park in Kingston. Just moments after I took it another one landed on the pond, and this fellow sent him packing, then returned to a high roost and flapped his wings again. Obvoiusly he owned that bit of territory.

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Nice one, Margaret.
Just around the corner at Bowen Park, Kingston.

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You know, I have never got a decent shot of silver gulls in the ACT. These are great action shots, showing what agressive birds they can be.
This is another oldie taken in my backyard. Sulphur crested cockatoos usually raise their crest as they land on a perch, but you have to be quick because they don't keep it up long.

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Thanks, Margaret. The Gull shots were in spring, they were fighting over a girl.
Nice shot of the crest, it doesn't stay up for long.
Bowen park again. Australasian Darter.

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Beautiful light on its feathers, there. Was this early morning or late afternoon?

Late afternoon. I don't think he wanted to get wet again, got real close to him. Shot with my Sigma 17-50@50mm

That close! And he still had his eyes open!

The white-browed woodswallows are summer migrants in the ACT. This female was shot at the Namadgi Visitors Centre. I was surprised how quietly she sat as I moved slowly between the bushes. The male was nearby.

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Another from a spot near to the Namadgi Visitors Centre, right on the banks of the Murrumbidgee River. Yellow-faced honeyeater.

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