Wild Birds of Australia

Mybludog wrote in post #19563122
That'll make it hard for me......i'm deaf

Oh dear

Mybludog wrote in post #19563122

ozulrike wrote in post #19562841
Thanks! Apparently it's difficult to tell them apart and only their call is the best way to distinguish them

That'll make it hard for me......i'm deaf

Oh dear me. I am so sorry to read this about you.

ozulrike wrote in post #19563131
Oh dear

Inspeqtor wrote in post #19563162
Oh dear me. I am so sorry to read this about you.

Well not completely deaf but deaf enough that i can't hear most birds calling, except for the Cockatoo's etc

Juvinile Great Knot. Fresh from his short 14,000km trip south to Australia.
Buffalo Ck, Darwin

Another of our migratory birds.

Lesser Sand Plover in non breeding plumage

Mybludog wrote in post #19563384
Another of our migratory birds.

Lesser Sand Plover in non breeding plumage

That's a sweet little bird. Demure comes to mind if it can be used on a bird

Lovely photo of it. Nicely composed. Must have been down low.

Share your pain Russell.
Not good when one looks through the camera and little wren is singing it's heart out to the heavens and you can't hear a thing.
Certain pitches don't make it for me

Mybludog wrote in post #19563384
Another of our migratory birds.

Lesser Sand Plover in non breeding plumage

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Great photos!! Did you take them at Lee Point?

Red-tailed Black Cockatoo, Calyptorhynchus banksii, showing off her beautiful tail feathers near the walking track above Wangi Falls in Litchfield National Park.

avondale87 wrote in post #19563386
That's a sweet little bird. Demure comes to mind if it can be used on a bird

Lovely photo of it. Nicely composed. Must have been down low.

Share your pain Russell.
Not good when one looks through the camera and little wren is singing it's heart out to the heavens and you can't hear a thing.
Certain pitches don't make it for me

Thanks Richard. Yes i was sitting in the wet sand

Yep, that's why I take my better half whenever I can. She can hear everything and i hear almost nothing

ozulrike wrote in post #19563447
Great photos!! Did you take them at Lee Point?

Thanks Ulrike. At Buffalo Ck. They flew from the beach side to the creek one morning so the light was good. The tide was going out so they were foraging along the edge of the creek

Pippan wrote in post #19563524
Red-tailed Black Cockatoo, Calyptorhynchus banksii, showing off her beautiful tail feathers near the walking track above Wangi Falls in Litchfield National Park.

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Nice work Pipan. We seen quite a few down that way when we were there

The northern species of Masked Lapwing 'Vanellus miles' and the southern sub-species 'novaehollandiae'

Mybludog wrote in post #19563611
Nice work Pipan. We seen quite a few down that way when we were there

Thanks Russell, I’m looking forward to seeing what you get on your journey back.

Mybludog wrote in post #19563614
The northern species of Masked Lapwing 'Vanellus miles' and the southern sub-species 'novaehollandiae'

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Quite different aren’t they. Our daughter got a shock when she moved to Brisbane and saw the southern ‘plovers’.

Mybludog wrote in post #19563614
The northern species of Masked Lapwing 'Vanellus miles' and the southern sub-species 'novaehollandiae'

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Yes, markedly different.
Is the pupil the same size in both? No idea from me, but wondered if northerner was in bright light compared to southerner? Assume birds eyes work like that?