Wild Birds of Australia

clipper_from_oz wrote in post #19336508
Mannikins and Doubled Bar Finches together taking a drink on a hot day

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Great set Clipper. That Kingfisher and the Mannikins are outstanding images

Pippan wrote in post #19336590
Forest Kingfisher with a yummy lunch at Fogg Dam yesterday. I spent quite a while trying to figure out what she'd caught. I think it's a marbled frog in transition from tadpole to adult.

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Poor frog

Mybludog wrote in post #19337012
Poor frog

Kingfisher's gotta eat too!

Crappy photo but I've never seen a Golden-headed Cisticola before. A breeding male in fine voice at the top of a small tree on the dune behind Casuarina Beach. It's a huge crop and was a hot day so heat-haze affected too. But he flew off before I could get closer.

another small one
Brown Thornbill - Acanthiza pusilla
Beautiful small birds that chase after insects and seem to follow along with the Superb Fairy Wrens
They don't sit still for long.

avondale87 wrote in post #19337072
another small one
Brown Thornbill - Acanthiza pusilla
Beautiful small birds that chase after insects and seem to follow along with the Superb Fairy Wrens
They don't sit still for long.

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Superb image Richard. Thornbills are a pain in the .... to try and and nail

Pippan wrote in post #19337056
Crappy photo but I've never seen a Golden-headed Cisticola before. A breeding male in fine voice at the top of a small tree on the dune behind Casuarina Beach. It's a huge crop and was a hot day so heat-haze affected too. But he flew off before I could get closer.

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Still a pretty good image Pippan.

I've only eber seen one around here, I'll have to dig a photo out when i get 5

Yellow Rosella taken on the Murray near Wentworth NSW

clipper_from_oz wrote in post #19336508
Mannikins and Doubled Bar Finches together taking a drink on a hot day

I love these photos of birds down at the watering hole
These are so very nice.

clipper_from_oz wrote in post #19336492
Kingfisher from yesterdays trip to Fogg Dam with Pippan .

Pippan wrote in post #19336590
Forest Kingfisher with a yummy lunch at Fogg Dam yesterday. I spent quite a while trying to figure out what she'd caught. I think it's a marbled frog in transition from tadpole to adult.

Beautiful photos of your magnificent Kingfishers
Are they the same bird?

You certainly captured that moment Pippan. Rather a rare find I imagine

Pippan wrote in post #19337056
Crappy photo but I've never seen a Golden-headed Cisticola before. A breeding male in fine voice at the top of a small tree on the dune behind Casuarina Beach. It's a huge crop and was a hot day so heat-haze affected too. But he flew off before I could get closer.

I looked these up and sounds like you were very fortunate indeed to get one out in the open.
Came out very well despite your concerns

Mybludog wrote in post #19337074
Superb image Richard. Thornbills are a pain in the .... to try and and nail

Thanks Russell. They can be fidgets for sure

Mybludog wrote in post #19337076
Yellow Rosella taken on the Murray near Wentworth NSW

Different and beautiful. Never heard of such and looked it up
Interesting variations in these birds

one of our tamer local Tasmanian Native Hens

avondale87 wrote in post #19337084
Beautiful photos of your magnificent Kingfishers
Are they the same bird?

You certainly captured that moment Pippan. Rather a rare find I imagine

I looked these up and sounds like you were very fortunate indeed to get one out in the open.
Came out very well despite your concerns

Thanks Richard. I think the kingfisher shots were the same bird but there were two perched there, both females.

I heard the cisticola calling and followed the sound, though I didn't know what bird it was until I looked through the viewfinder.

avondale87 wrote in post #19337088
one of our tamer local Tasmanian Native Hens

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Wow, that's close! And sharp.

Eastern curlew on a mission, on Casuarina Beach near Darwin yesterday. These birds breed in summer in the wetlands of far north-east Asia and holiday on the Australian coast during the northern winter. They are listed as critically endangered under Australia's environmental law.

A Red-collared Lorikeet maintaining its sugar high with nectar from the flowers of a large paperbark tree on the edge of the monsoon forest behind Casuarina Beach. When paperbarks flower the air around them is redolent of sweet honey scent.