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Old 17-09-2022, 02:41 PM   #61
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You mean where was the photo taken or where is the gull in the photo??????
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You mean where was the photo taken or where is the gull in the photo??????
Cav, thinks he's in the "Random Pictures" thread.
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Oddest sighting so far was at the Maccas in gunnedah. My brother and myself both did double takes to be sure that yes, that was indeed a seagull. In gunnedah. We assumed he was on holidays...


Not long after i moved in here (and its really really quiet here at night) i heard a wu hu, wu hu at midnight and thought, who the hell out here has a cuckoo clock? Turns out it was a mopoke
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Old 18-09-2022, 09:13 AM   #64
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https://www.watoday.com.au/national/...ource=rss_feed

The male in Melbourne CBD's breeding pair of falcons is under threat.
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It isn't pleasant but it's nature. Nature both beautiful and brutal. I know people that are horrified seeing a beautiful rosella being torn apart and eaten. Other nest cams have shown falcon chicks being snatched and carried away by owls.
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Old 18-09-2022, 11:49 AM   #66
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NSW and further north will be coming into Pheasant Coucal season soon, this large migratory bird loves to lay its eggs in Magpie and Currawong nests pushing the smaller chicks out.
Where this large chick demands all the parents attention exclusively.
The thing when flying looks like a large walking stick with an unusually slow wing beat. (similar to Black Cockatoo's) and has some interesting calls.

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Old 18-09-2022, 01:18 PM   #67
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We get those horrible channel-bills around here; ugly and raucous.
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Thanks for posting the Rockwiz.
We get this bird in our tiny back yard in our GC townhouse complex in surburban Gc although adjacent to a vast tract of scrub land.
The ones we get here make dog barking like noises.
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Old 18-10-2022, 01:37 PM   #69
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Today: three red-rumped parrots; beautiful smaller parrot; there was one on the road and two on the grass; if not for the one on the road (it got out of the way) I probably wouldn't have spotted them.

Lots of juvenile birds about; saw a young grey butcher bird recently; I don't think it had the hook on the beak - develops later, I guess.
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Old 05-11-2022, 06:21 PM   #70
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I just saw a kookaburra with a mouse or rat in its beak, on the roof of a tin shed in the backyard. Then it flew to a nearby tree and flicked its head to smack the mouse/rat onto the branch, over and over, before eventually swallowing it. The kookaburra was still there when I heard a bird crash into a window; it was a wattle bird, being chased by noisy minors. The wattle bird landed on a rose bush adjacent to the window, with a couple of noisy miners watching, before it flew off.
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Old 05-11-2022, 08:34 PM   #71
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A couple of our regulars, slightly grubby from the wet ground.


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Old 05-11-2022, 08:35 PM   #72
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Spotted a couple of Western Rosellas in Margaret river recently. Adult feeding a juvenile. They're normally pretty shy but I was lucky enough to watch them for quite some time, long enough even to get a couple of crappy shots on my phone.





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Kookaburras just erupted as the grandkids were leaving tonight. She (the youngest) calls them Cookieburras
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Old 06-11-2022, 06:32 PM   #74
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I saw a king parrot this morning and a new holland honey eater this afternoon ...
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This morning on the train heading west from Melbourne, just west of Caroline Springs station as the train passed a very large, grassy area (these grasslands are disappearing out there, under housing and industrial developments), I saw a large bird just floating up there, no wing movement needed. I couldn't tell what it was.

Just before Bacchus Marsh I saw a much smaller raptor flying away from the line with something in its talons.

On the way back in the afternoon I was planning to watch the grassy area and - this is a bit hard to believe - standing on a fence post next to the train line was a pretty large raptor, possibly with something under its talons. Probably not an eagle but maybe a kite, harrier or goshawk.

Could it have been the bird I saw in the same area several hours earlier?
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I have been working near Loxton in south aust, on the murray river. No flooding yet but the river has risen and rising. Saw a small flock of Regent parrots, maybe a dozen or more hard to tell they just flashed past but I knew I hadn't seen them before, I had to look them up.

Not so nice but waiting to book into the caravan park an adult pair and around 7 or eight chicks crossed the road in front of me, australian wood duck. At that moment a car came past and skittled them, I thought they were all gone but just one chick got squished, the others bounced off and the parents didn't miss a beat just walked everyone off into the river without a second glance.

A street away from my house coming home today there was a baby lace neck dove, the introduced species in the middle of the road with it's parent next to it. I stopped and picked it up and put on the verge.
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Feeding away on the wattle tree seeds this morn my place before leaving for the office





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We are getting a heap of King Parrots in our yard at the moment as well.

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This popped up in my morning news… Nice to have at least one feel-good item for a change?
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Old 20-11-2022, 04:47 PM   #80
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Yesterday morning as I was about to enter the local park there was a woman and her daughter (daughter about 11?) shepherding a duck and perhaps 8 very small ducklings through the gate into the park - from probably 500 metres (or more) away (the mum said). Hope they are safe in there.

On Friday I saw a brown hawk (or something else that size); separately, what might have been a kite (?) using the thermals to get pretty high while being annoyed by a couple of magpies.
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On Friday I saw a brown hawk (or something else that size); separately, what might have been a kite (?) using the thermals to get pretty high while being annoyed by a couple of magpies.
Watching Eagles, Hawks or Kites dodging Maggies etc.
Love the way they just effortlessly tuck and change direction while the attacker runs pass, then needing that large arc to catch up again.
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A bronzewing has recently taken up residence three houses away. Its favourite spot seems to be on the two storey house's roof. I was hearing it for a week or so before I could pin point where the sound was coming from, and only by seeing the bird on the roof and noticing its head drop each time it made that ooom sound. As my bird book says, it's monotonous and repetitive.
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Been house sitting a Kelpie cross where every morning the local Catbirds take great pleasure landing above her and screeching out their raucous calls knowing she can never be quick enough to catch them.

This dog has a real problem with birds in general, on walks she will constantly scan and stalk them. Wrong choice of rescue dog in my opinion.
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Must be nesting in our yard.
The noise starts ar around 10 to 6 each morning.
And the missus gets bird-abuse when hanging out the washing.
So noisy, matching the crows.
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Bad pic from my cheap phone but there were a few birds in the tree, for such a colourful parrot they sure can camouflage. Noisy as but hard to spot even close up
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I cheat, I get them out in the open where I can see them


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That's a great shot gasso, even have the crested pigeons
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Lovely Rainbow Lorikeet's. Something which is rarely seen around here. For some reason they never head further south than Wodonga into the North East.

One bird I will never feed are the Cockatoo's, Summer, the sky is full of these screeching crapshooters which are drawn here by grain trains passing.
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Heaps of rainbow lorikeets in Melbourne. I saw an article 10 (?) years ago about their numbers increasing dramatically here.

Indian/Common mynas: I have been 'threatening' for years to catch and dispose ... but I haven't done it. What methods are acceptable to 'put them to sleep'?
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Heaps of rainbow lorikeets in Melbourne. I saw an article 10 (?) years ago about their numbers increasing dramatically here.

Indian/Common mynas: I have been 'threatening' for years to catch and dispose ... but I haven't done it. What methods are acceptable to 'put them to sleep'?
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