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A Morning With The Rainbow Lorikeets

A Morning With The Rainbow Lorikeets

Unfortunately with Brisbane being in Lock Down again Lindy and I had to cancel our day road trip on Wednesday but I didn't mind as the Lorikeets on our property kept us entertained. Here is just a couple of photos that I took yesterday. Hope everyone is keeping safe. They love to interact with us humans and some of them are very acrobatic and often enjoy hanging upside down. Showing off their feathers is their specialty

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Entertaining Wrens

Entertaining Wrens

It is not always easy to spot the tiny Wrens but if you are lucky to spot them, you will find them just amazing to watch especially in their breeding season when the males are busy keeping an eye on all his females. Most wrens are very small and very quick and when not breeding they can be hard to find. The Variegated Fairy-Wren below is so colourful especially the male. Their size is 11cm-14.5cm.They breed from July-Mar  and a female will lay 3-4 eggs. Their preferred habitat is shrub associations, undergrowth, margins of clearing, woodlands, heaths,sand plain and dune...

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Crimson Rosella Preening Feathers

Crimson Rosella Preening Feathers

It is not always easy getting a photo of a bird in the wild in their natural environment. I have spotted these birds many times while on a photography day trip, but they were too far away and had many trees and branches between them and my camera, making it basically impossible to capture a nice shot.Oh you can get up close at some of these wildlife attractions where they feed them, but there is nothing more enjoyable or rewarding for me than to get them in the wild doing their own thingies. The Crimson Rosella is an Australian Native...

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The Stunning Plumed Whistling Duck

The Stunning Plumed Whistling Duck

I never ever thought we would ever have this stunning duck the Plumed whistling duck on our property and two of them, a pretty little female and a handsome male walked daily around our property, regularly coming up near the back of our house and laying under the shade of a tree near where we had a bowl of fresh water. Late afternoon they would fly out to feed on the seed in local pastures and return to a base camp during the day. Well this couple thought they were living in a resort with fresh water plenty of shade...

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Forest Kingfisher

Forest Kingfisher

We are very fortunate to have both the Forest Kingfisher and the Sacred Kingfisher living in the trees on and around our property. Just being able to walk out our front door and just take a couple of steps to be able to photograph these beautiful little birds in their natural environment is beautiful. Years ago we put a very shallow frog pond in the bottom corner of our yard, the rain runoff keeps it topped up with lovely cold fresh water. Yes we have frogs in their but because we just let it do what it wanted to do...

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