Wild Birds of Australia

Australian Wood Duck, Chenonetta jubata, male (above) and female.

Early morning Fairy-wren at Kingfisher Bay, K'gari.

White-cheeked Honeyeater perched atop its favourite source of nectar: a flower of the Swamp Banksia.

Pippan wrote in post #19576879
White-cheeked Honeyeater perched atop its favourite source of nectar: a flower of the Swamp Banksia.

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Beautiful, never seen this one here in QLD

Lyn2011 wrote in post #19577055
Beautiful, never seen this one here in QLD

Treat yourself to a day or two at Kingfisher Bay on K'gari (Fraser Is). They seem quite unfazed by people. Also Red-backed Fairy-wrens, swallows, ducks, moorhens, dusky and Lewin's Honeyeaters, Friarbirds, terns, Brahminy Kites and Kookaburras all within 200 metres of the accommodation.

Pippan wrote in post #19577056
Treat yourself to a day or two at Kingfisher Bay on K'gari (Fraser Is). They seem quite unfazed by people. Also Red-backed Fairy-wrens, swallows, ducks, moorhens, dusky and Lewin's Honeyeaters, Friarbirds, terns, Brahminy Kites and Kookaburras all within 200 metres of the accommodation.

I'll put this on my wish list, thanks Pippan

Pacific Reef Herons, Egretta sacra, dark morph and light morph, on the sea-cliff face at East Point, Darwin.

Adult Kookaburra on approach to nest in Toohey Forest this morning.

After grabbing a handful of quick shots, I decided to beat a hasty retreat as the birds appeared quite nervous and a large noisy group was approaching on the trail, so I did not want to draw any attention to the nest.

Dennis

I returned to the Kookaburra nest, a dis-used Termite Mound later the same day and found a position that was more hidden from the birds and forest visitors, but only offered limited backside views due to intervening trees and foliage.

Dennis

Fantastic series & experience Dennis

I've only ever seen one kookaburra nest high up in a gum. And too far away to see anything worthwhile.
You were priveleged to watch that.

Black Butcherbird, Melloria quoyi, getting an evening meal in dim dusk light at the East Point mangrove boardwalk. It spent quite a while extracting the large hermit crab from its shell.

avondale87 wrote in post #19577507
Fantastic series & experience Dennis

I've only ever seen one kookaburra nest high up in a gum. And too far away to see anything worthwhile.
You were priveleged to watch that.

Thanks Richard, in the second shot, you can just make out a poor Gekko in the Adult's beak, ready to be fed to the juveniles.

Dennis

Another happy cockatoo, this time a male Red-tailed Black, using his enormous beak to get to some delicious woollybutt seeds.

Dusky Honeyeater, Myzomela obscura, at Walker Creek in Litchfield National Park.

Spangled Drongo, Dicrurus bracteatus, at Berry Springs, south of Darwin.