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An autumn evening along the Rosebud Foreshore

Posted on May 5, 2015 | 2 comments

As the final site of a weekend of birding down the coast a few weeks ago, I walked along the Rosebud foreshore beach just enjoying the company of friends and a nice Autumn evening. I took the camera along just in case something interesting was discovered. I practiced shooting on several birds and tried to sneak up on a few others ( a bit tricky with friends, kids and dogs everywhere)

Rosebud Foreshore, Victoria 12 April 2015

Rosebud Pier, Victoria

Silver Gulls, Rosebud Foreshore

A White Faced Heron was hunting in the water with a technique that I had seen Silver gulls use in a similar way – it would lift its leg out of the water, slowly move it forward and down and then wiggle it agitating the sand. It would then pounce on anything that moved.

White Faced Heron

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White Faced Heron IV, Rosebud Foreshore, Victoria 12 April 2015

I noticed a Black Shouldered Kite patrolling the beach and the nearby scrub looking for mice. A large Silver Gull took a dislike to the Kite and tried to chase it off. The Gull is a master of flying in all conditions and I expected it to move the Kite away from the area but the Kite just kept turning at the last second and the gull would over-shoot. The Silver Gull did not give up easily and it was beautiful to watch the unconcerned Kite twist and turn away from the chasing Gull. It made the larger Gull look clumsy.

Gull and Black Shouldered Kite, Rosebud Foreshore, Victoria 12 April 2015

Silver Gull and Black Shouldered Kite, Rosebud Foreshore

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Little Wattlebird, Rosebud Foreshore, Victoria 12 April 2015

Little Wattlebird feeding on the nectar of a Banskia flower.

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Tagged Australian Birds, Bird Photography, Little Wattlebird, Nature Photography, Photography, Rosebud, Silver Gull, Victoria, White Faced Heron, White Shouldered Kite

“Birds are the magicians of the nature! They are here, they are there and they are everywhere!”

Posted on April 30, 2015 | Leave a comment

“Birds are the magicians of the nature! They are here, they are there and they are everywhere!” – Mehmet Murat Ildan

An overcast and at times drizzly morning was my initial reward for an early start exploring a new site on the Mornington Peninsula. I was down the coast for the weekend and decided to have a look at a Flora and Fauna Reserve that I had always driven past to get to Green Bush but had never visited. Behind a two car carpark, an ordinary gate and piles of dumped rubbish was a pretty good native bushland reserve and a great display of small birds, along with the local regulars. I knew I was in for a treat by the shear number of birds especially the smaller ones that I could hear and eventually found as I walked around the reserve. They moved in early morning feeding flocks and were not too bothered by me, at times coming down quite close to check me out.

Golden Whistler, Peninsula Gardens, Rosebud South, Victoria 12 April, 2015

Golden Whistler, Peninsula Gardens, Rosebud South, Victoria, April, 2015

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Spotted Pardalote, Peninsula Gardens, Rosebud South, Victoria

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Spotted Pardalotes gathering nesting material even though it is very late in the season, Peninsula Gardens, Rosebud South, Victoria

Grey Shrike Thrush, Peninsula Gardens

The large number of birds was I think due to a lack of visitors and a good variety of low and mid canopy native vegetation, much of it flowering like the banksia below. There were many tall Grasstrees in the reserve and a number of these were flowering as well.

Banksia, Peninsula Gardens – many of the smaller honeyeaters were squabbling over these large nectar rich flowers

Grass Trees, Peninsula Gardens

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Tagged Australian Birds, banksia, Bird Photography, Golden Whistler, Grass Trees, Grey Shrike Thrush, Nature Photography, Peninsula Gardens, Photography, Rosebud South, Spotted Pardalote, Victoria

Baby-sitting a Crested Shrike Tit

Posted on April 29, 2015 | 5 comments

A few weeks ago I spent the weekend down the coast and visited old haunts and a few new ones. I stopped by Greens Bush with not too much hope as it was overcast and quite dark in the forest. I heard some unusual calls and soon found a family of Crested Shrike Tits moving through the canopy along the creek. It was the first time I had seen this species at Greens Bush. They were at a decent height and moving around quickly. I decided to cheat and used my Bird App to play their calls to see what they would do. They come straight down from the canopy to look for the stranger. I set up my iPhone on a branch around head height and moved back to try and entice the birds into the area for a few shots.

Crested Shrike Tit, Greens Bush, Victoria

Crested Shrike Tit looking for the strange bird

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I noticed a strange thing – one of the young birds, which was closest to the iPhone, started making the sign for “please feed me, I am hungry, please feed me” . It crouched down and shuddered its wings. After a few minutes it flew next to the iPhone and just sat there while its parents moved off back into the canopy and further along the creek. The juvenile was just happy to stick around and listen to the playback calls. I was playing the Crested Shrike Tit group feeding call so it was quite comforting and non-threatening. (After watching and taking photos for a few minutes I retrieved the phone and let the Shrike Tit rejoin its family).

Juvenile Crested Shrike Tit, Greens Bush, Victoria

joining in the chorus of recorded Crested Shrike Tits feeding…

Grey Kangaroo, Greens Bush, Victoria 11 April 2015

Grey Kangaroo, Greens Bush, Victoria – I always see a Grey Roo at Greens Bush

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Tagged Australian Birds, Bird Photography, Crested Shrike Tit, Greens Bush, Grey Kangaroo, Nature Photography, Photography, Victoria

The wary ablutions of a Welcome Swallow

Posted on April 21, 2015 | Leave a comment

On a recent walk to the local lake I was walking along the edge for a while and watching for the Spotless Crake that has taken up residence on the small island in the lake. Standing still for a while I happened to look up and on a branch of a dead tree overhanging the lake I noticed a Welcome Swallow. It had just landed and was now grooming in the late afternoon sun-light. It made fast motions and was quite aware of everything around it including me. Butcherbirds were calling so it knew that a possible predator was in the area. The swallow would be very hard to catch in the air but possible to take when on a branch. I have not taken any decent shots of a Swallow in the air so took advantage of one that remained fairly still for a few minutes.

Welcome Swallow, Elsternwick Park Lake, Victoria, 6 April 2015

With fast grooming motions

it gave attention to every long feather

stopped for another quick look around for danger

waggled its tail feathers

gave special attention to the flight feathers

every feather inspected and put back into position

all done…and now another quick flight to catch a snack over the water…

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Tagged Australian Birds, Bird Photography, Elsternwick Lake, grooming, Nature Photography, Photography, Victoria, Welcome Swallow

The Lonsdale Lakes of Bellarine

Posted on April 18, 2015 | Leave a comment

Over Easter I explored the Bellarine Peninsula, south of Melbourne and the other side of the opening of Port Phillip Bay. I have not been down this way before for photography and birding so it was all new. I researched some tips from John (my birding mate) and hit a few sites over several days.

The first area was the Lonsdale Lakes starting at Lake Victoria. It is a flat area with wide mud banks and a fairly shallow lagoon. It is quickly drying out but obviously still has a good food supply for the various species I came across: Swans, Stilts, Red Necked Stints, Red Capped Plovers, White Faced Herons and Gulls.

The vegetation long the lake side and paths is low scrub, shrubs, grasses and salt -bush and various succulent type plants -all very tough and hardy for dry, salty and windy conditions. It is quite attractive in the right light too with many shades of green…

The path along the lake’s edge

Lake side vegetation

Red Capped Plover – a tiny young bird in a wide expanse, well camouflaged when hiding beside a small rock

Red Capped Plover

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Red Capped Plovers

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Red Necked Stints flying in

Many Black Swans were feeding in the shallow water and flying over to fresh feeding grounds

I watched this White Faced Heron for a while and took a few shots as it fed in the mud along a nearby creek. At one point it stood quite still, did a full body shake and then went back to feeding. It might be part of a grooming action or just bringing in more air under its feathers as the day got later and cooler.

White faced Heron

White faced Heron II

White faced Heron III

White faced Heron IV

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Tagged Australian Birds, Bellarine, Bird Photography, Black Swan, Lake Victoria, Lonsdale Lakes, Nature Photography, Photography, Red Necked Stint, Vegetation, Victoria, White Faced Heron

Thornbill and the Irregulars…

Posted on April 15, 2015 | 4 comments

While waiting for a neighbour to come by so we could walk over to the lake and along Elster Creek I saw this little Brown Thornbill in a tree that overhangs my front garden. Not a very common bird in inner suburbia unless you have good undergrowth for it to escape the attention of other aggressive birds and the predator Butcherbird. I have seen the Thornbills for a couple of years now in the street so the cover must be improving.

Brown Thornbill

After watching the Thornbill for few minutes we walked over to the Lake and saw a few birds, some regular and some not some common.

Australasian Grebe in breeding plumage – one of the three Grebes we see in Victoria but not very often at the Lake

Willie Wagtail – a regular in low numbers

Masked Lapwing – usually a few somewhere in the area and often heard during the night flying over the suburb squawking loudly all the way.

Male Magpie Lark – a crazy bird during breeding season – will attack any reflection of itself even in sunglasses on top of a woman’s head…

Female Hardhead – not that common here. Also called a White-eyed Duck due to the males white eye ring. Has found sanctuary here to escape the current Duck Season.

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Tagged Australasian Grebe, Australian Birds, Bird Photography, Brown Thornbill, Elsternwick Lake, Hardhead, Magpie Lark, Masked Lapwing, Nature Photography, Victoria, Willie Wagtail

And One Chick became Two….

Posted on April 14, 2015 | Leave a comment

After my last visit to the lake to observe and photograph the Spotless Crake and the Grebes I went back a few days later and while watching the Grebe with the chick we noticed another little head… a second chick.

Previously we had seen the Grebe with one chick:

Hoary Headed Grebe with a passenger

And then we saw the Grebe with two little passengers…

Hoary Headed Grebe and chicks

Hoary Headed Grebe and chicks – one at the front being fed a morsel while in the back seat the second chick tries to climb on board.

Hoary Headed Grebe and chicks – mum leaves the chicks on the surface and dives to the bottom for food

Hoary Headed Grebe chicks

Two tiny Grebe chicks barely heavy enough to break the water tension,

Hoary Headed Grebe and chicks – back with dinner.

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Tagged Australian Birds, Bird Photography, Elsternwick Lake, Hoary Headed Grebe, Nature Photography, Photography, Victoria

Autumn along Elster Creek

Posted on April 10, 2015 | 1 comment

After viewing the Spotless Crake and the Grebe for an hour or so and seeing what else turned up, we wandered over to Elster Creek and the golf course to see what was happening in a different patch of the neighbourhood.

Autumn foliage along the Creek

Crested Pigeons are nervous at the best of times but this one decided we were interesting (3 blokes carrying camera gear and pushing a bike) and flew down to within 20 feet or so and came strutting straight towards us. It stopped 10 feet away gave us a good looking over as I unslung my camera gear and then flew off in its usual style (mad panic). I am thinking this bird may need glasses….

Crested Pigeon

Crested Pigeon II

Talking of crazy birds – I spotted several Long Billed Corellas near the lake on one of the golf fairways. They were having a grand old time digging up the fairway looking for onion weed bulbs. Each one excavated a deep hole of several inches and grabbed a mouthful of bulbs and chewed them with obvious pleasure. Even walking up pretty close did not spook them. This was my first sighting of these birds in the area. Their cousins, the Little Corella seem to be more common here especially in the last few years with a flock of 400+ roosting in the local trees over winter.

Long Billed Corella – not the greenskeepers best friend….

Long Billed Corella

Long Billed Corella – enjoying the bounty

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Tagged Australian Birds, Bird Photography, Crested Pigeon, Elster Creek, Long Billed Corella, Nature Photography, Photography, Victoria

It is Autumn but the Grebes think it is Spring.

Posted on April 9, 2015 | 2 comments

While we were watching the Spotless Crake, I took a few shots of the Hoary Headed Grebe that had passed by just below the platform we were standing on. Usually Grebes don’t get too close to humans and will automatically dive under water if they feel threatened in anyway. Just looking at them directly can make them disappear. This one stayed nearby and did not dive at all, it just dibbled a bit under the surface. The young eagle-eyes of one of my fellow birders noticed a splash of orange/red on the grebe’s back and said that it might be injured. Meanwhile I just kept shooting…..

Hoary Headed Grebe

Hoary Headed Grebe with a little splash of colour in the centre of its back.

and then out popped a hitch-hiker….

Hoary Headed Grebe with very young chick

Hoary Headed Grebe – the grebe is a small bird and its chick is tiny…

Hoary Headed Grebe – feeding very small bits of weed

Hoary Headed Grebe – get along mummy….

Birds will continue to breed through Spring/Summer/Autumn if there is a stable food source and minimum threats. The local birders have not seen Grebes breed at the Lake before and it is a good sign.

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Tagged Australian Birds, Bird Photography, Elsternwick Lake, Hoary Headed Grebe, Nature Photography, Photography, Victoria

I spotted a Crake, a Spotless Crake

Posted on April 8, 2015 | 2 comments

A fairly uncommon bird was seen at the local lake a few weeks ago and when I received the call from the local birder network, I quickly grabbed my gear and headed over to try my luck.

The Spotless Crake is a tiny wader that skulks in the reeds along muddy edges. I have not seen one locally and not many anywhere else. This little bird was quite adventurous and not timid at all. It occasionally bolted back into its little tunnels along the bank but soon came out again.

Spotless Crake – passing a tennis ball which gives an idea of its size.

Spotless Crake II

Several other birds were nearby that did not seem to bother the Crake very much. The only bird that had a go and made the Crake jump a bit was an aggro Willie Wagtail and as soon as it moved on the Grebe popped back out again.

Little Pied Cormorant – in the dead tree above the Crake

Little Pied Cormorant – near the Crake.

Spotless Crake and Grebe

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Tagged Australian Birds, Bird Photography, Elsternwick Lake, Hoary Headed Grebe, Little Pied Cormorant, Nature Photography, Photography, Spotless Crake, Victoria

Woodlands Industrial Park – calls of childhood

Posted on March 31, 2015 | 2 comments

After the early morning encounter with my little White-plumed Honeyeater friend and watching his gang take on a rival New Holland Honeyeater tribe we continued our walk into the wetlands and bordering scrub looking for more birds.

We found a Black Faced Cuckoo-shrike moving along the tree line above us being pestered by Magpie-larks.

Black Faced Cuckoo-shrike

One of the great sounds of bushland on the Melbourne fringe (and in my area of inner Melbourne) is the call of the Butcherbird. Along with the Currawong and Magpie, the butcherbird it is part of the soundscape of the outer Melbourne. For many childhood years I lived on the fringe of suburbia in different parts of Australia. I still regularly visit my folks who still live on the fringe. The sounds below were always there in the background.

Currawong call from Birds in Backyards site (press the audio button down the right hand side of the site)

Grey Butcherbird call

Australian Magpie call

The Butcherbird is an adept hunter of small birds, lizards and insects and gets its name from its habit of hanging up its prey in the branches. It has also been known to use wire mesh fences to store excess food. I have found them nesting in a tree on my property and watch them attempt to take a Welcome Swallow in flight at the Elsternwick Park Lake.

Juvenile Grey Butcherbird – my first decent shot, the matures bird are much more nervous of humans but the juveniles do not yet have the same fears.

Juvenile Grey Butcherbird II – wicked little hook visible on the tip of the bill.

Purple Swamphen – interesting bird to photograph due to its size and vibrant colours.

Purple Swamphen II

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Tagged Australian Birds, Bird Calls, Bird Photography, Black faced Cuckoo Shrike, Braeside, grey butcherbird, Nature Photography, Photography, purple swamphen, Victoria, Woodlands Industrial Park

The culprit that started the obsession

Posted on March 26, 2015 | Leave a comment

Several years ago I was watching a few birds roosting on the island in the middle of Elsternwick Lake and was trying to name the ones I recognized – cormorant, seagull, pigeon, magpie, swallow etc…I had never really thought about the others that were around that I couldn’t name. I saw a tiny olive coloured bird above me fighting with a Noisy Miner. I had no idea what it was and having my camera in my hand I took a few bad shots so I could look for it in an old bird book I had in my library. From that bit of research started a new hobby/skill/adventure/obsession – birding.

My tough little friend fighting off the Miner was a White Plumed Honeyeater – a pugnacious honeyeater that will defend its food supply and territory. I have often seen them at Woodlands Industrial Estate fighting with an opposing and equally aggressive tribe of New Holland Honeyeaters.

The Woodlands Industrial Estate includes an area of native scrub and wetlands that is not controlled by the Parks Department and people seem to use the edges as a dumping ground and to walk their dogs off leash. It is right next to Braeside Park and I often walk between the sites looking for certain species. I went there a few weeks ago with my birding buddy John and found my epiphany bird in the early morning light feeding on insects and Lerp.

White Plumed Honeyeater

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looking for insects and lerp in amongst the gum leaves

One of my favourite little birds

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Tagged Australian Birds, Bird Photography, Nature Photography, Photography, Victoria, White Plumed Honeyeater, Woodlands Industrial Park

Watchful Mums and juicy moths

Posted on March 25, 2015 | 3 comments

While I was trying to figure out what was happening with the Red-Capped Robins and their strange rituals I did notice that they would break off now and again and start to hunt for insects on the ground. The male would hunt and eat his prize while the female would fly off and into a dense bit of prickly scrub. I slowly followed her over to the scrub and stood next to a tree trying to blend in and look to see if she was returning to a nest. I found a little juvenile Red Capped Robin in the scrub. I watched the chick for a while and soon picked up that he knew when mum was coming back before I did. I kept the camera on the chick and waited for the usual reactions.

Female Red Capped Robin hunting for insects in the leaves

Juvenile Red Capped Robin – a bit of preening before the next snack, and displaying his camouflaged feather patterns – perfect for hiding in dry scrub.

Keeping an eye out for mum…..

Here she comes…..

Begging stance activated…..I have seen many chicks of different species assume this position to encourage an adult to feed it.

A juicy moth…..

Hmmmm….delicious…..

Now for a little nap between feeds…

I realised that the chick was not looking for visual clues that mum was nearby and must have been hearing a signal that she was on her way or nearby. I did not hear anything loud enough for me to detect from about 5 meters away. And by the angle of the chicks eyes when it knew mum was there, the mother was right above me in a tree.

After a few feeds from the female robin (no sign of or visits from the male – and maybe that was what the earlier stand-offs were about between the two adults), the female did not return for some time. I kept looking around for her and keeping an eye on the sleeping chick – who only opened his eyes when my camera shutter went off.

A few feet from the chick I finally saw her watching me and the chick. I think she wanted to be sure that I wasn’t a threat before went she off to hunt again. I thought it was time to leave them alone.

Female Red Capped Robin – watching me and her chick through the prickle bush.

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Tagged Australian Birds, Bird Photography, Nature Photography, Photography, Red Capped Robin, Victoria, Woodlands Historic Park.

Jets, Eagles, Whistlers and Robins

Posted on March 24, 2015 | 2 comments

Woodlands Historic Park is in Greenvale near the Melbourne Airport. I visited last week after my walk along Cororoit Creek. I was pretty hungry and the only places I could see to eat along the way were crappy fast food outlets. I would rather go hungry than eat cardboard covered in salt, grease, sugar and fat. At the turn-off to get to Woodlands I saw a food truck at the Aircraft viewing area. I never knew about this area until I saw it on google maps while looking for the Woodlands Park. I stopped for some really good quality Turkish style food (chicken fillet burger and some fresh Dim Sims – ok a little junky but it was fresh made and really good). While waiting for it to be made several planes landed at the airport. The planes fly low right overhead as they land. It is a sight to see. Several mums had kids there watching and the kids were loving it – like giant dinosaurs flying overhead and landing nearby with a roar. They were too close to get in a shot using my 400 mm. Next time I will take a wider angle and wait for an airbus A380 to come in. One of the regular spotters said that was the best plane to watch as you can feel the turbulence and feel its size and at night it feels like it is going to land on you.

There are several good birding spots at Woodlands and the site I have been to a few times is near the Aboriginal Cemetery and Back Paddock gate. There is a large mob of Grey Roos hanging around that don’t seem too bothered by birders popping in or visitors with kids and strollers.

Grey Kangaroos

I found a pair of Red Capped Robins and they ignored me while they had a squabble about something. The male would approach and be gently attacked by the female. If the male backed off the female would jump in and get him hot and bothered again. It was strange to watch and I had no idea what was going on. I assumed it was a bit late in the season to be a courtship ritual. After a while they broke off and started hunting – with a similar style to the Eastern Yellow Robin – from a higher perch and then pouncing onto the prey on the ground.

Red Capped Robins in a stand-off

Female Red Capped Robin

Male Red Capped Robin

Red Capped Robins – another stand-off

Male Red Capped Robin

Male Red Capped Robin – looking for moths and other insects

Female Red Capped Robin keeping an eye on me as I circled around trying to get better shots

Rufous Whistler – I looked up from my stalking and found this guy trying to figure out what I was up to. His partner was in the next tree hunting amongst the tree branches and leaves.

Rufous Whistler II

Rufous Whistler III

Wedge Tailed Eagle – several Eagles passed over head during my few hours at Woodlands. The Galahs gave a panicked call alerting me that something was above.

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Hungry, Shy and Alluring – the Ladies of Tarra Valley

Posted on March 14, 2015 | Leave a comment

During my recent trip to the Tarra Bulga National Park and the Tarra Valley, the weather was overcast and drizzly making the forests quite dark and difficult to photograph birds.

After a few days the sun did come out and I found a few interesting scenes of feeding, preening and secret bathing spots.

Immature Grey Shrike Thrush waiting for a parent to bring a snack

Adult Grey Shrike Thrush with a moth

Grey Shrike Thrush feeding time

Silvereye

Silvereye preening

Silvereye keeping an eye on the voyeur with the camera

Eastern Spinebill – there were many large Fuschias around the campground and along the river (escaped plants) most likely established by previous owners of the campgrounds. The Spinebill loves this bush for the nectar in the flowers.

I had walked downstream from the campgrounds one evening and was looking at a small pond waiting for a platypus to appear when I remembered the old birding adage “always look behind you“. I did glance back up the creek and saw a large brown bird hopping into a rock pool and splashing about. It was a Lyrebird taking its evening dip.

Lyrebird

Lyrebird II

Lyrebird bathing – small wings and a long tail make for very short flight – more of a ground dweller and branch jumper.

A dog barked nearby and the bird jumped back into the bushes so I took the opportunity to re-position and observe a bit longer. The Lyrebird made a few calls and came down a few minutes later and hopped right back in…

Lyrebird – big claws for digging the rainforest floor for meals of insects, spiders and earthworms.

Just right……

Lyrebird splashdown – photos following this one were a blur of feathers and water…quite funny to watch – she spent a fair bit of time working on the tail as well.

Secret Lyrebird bath – after she left I had a look at the bath and it is a natural bathing spot – perfect for future stake-outs.

My Blue Thunder co-owner and I found a different Lyrebird building a nest in the National Park – the nest was about 2 metres off the ground on the side of a large Mountain Ash tree. She placed sticks carefully and collected large mouthfuls of mouldy leaf litter to place on the bottom of the nest. She ignored us watching and taking photos from only a few metres away.

Lyrebird Nest on the side of the Ash. Invisible unless you saw her jump up into it.

Tarra River next to the campgrounds

Moss and Lichen with a nice coloured bokeh background.

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Tagged Australian Birds, Bird Photography, Bokeh, Eastern Spinebill, Grey Shrike Thrush, Lyrebird, Nature Photography, Silvereye, Tarra Bulga, Tarra River, Tarra Valley, Victoria

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Category Archives: Bird Behaviour

An autumn evening along the Rosebud Foreshore

“Birds are the magicians of the nature! They are here, they are there and they are everywhere!”

Baby-sitting a Crested Shrike Tit

The wary ablutions of a Welcome Swallow

The Lonsdale Lakes of Bellarine

Thornbill and the Irregulars…

And One Chick became Two….

Autumn along Elster Creek

It is Autumn but the Grebes think it is Spring.

I spotted a Crake, a Spotless Crake

Woodlands Industrial Park – calls of childhood

The culprit that started the obsession

Watchful Mums and juicy moths

Jets, Eagles, Whistlers and Robins

Hungry, Shy and Alluring – the Ladies of Tarra Valley

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