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It takes a village

1/12/2019

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I saw this chick sitting on the grass at Balls Head Reserve recently, looking singularly unimpressed with life:
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A Honeyeater Blue

26/8/2019

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The spring is sprung, the grass is ris, I wonder where the birdie is?
Often at this time of year, the birdie is in some sort of conflict.  In the past week I’ve seen two currawongs attacking a third one they had cornered in a neighbour’s garden, and a magpie angrily pursuing a raven. In neither case did I have a camera handy. However I was able to photograph a spat in the Noosa Spit Reserve, between a Little Wattlebird and a Blue-faced Honeyeater. It was a typical clash over feeding rights to a banksia tree between two members of the honeyeater family. This was an early moment:
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Blue cheeks and white plumes

2/6/2019

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Just behind the tiny Uniting Church at Glen Alice in the Capertee valley is a patch of trees, mostly eucalypts. Here, a Little Friarbird (Philomen citreogularis), with its distinctive blue patches below its eyes, flies in to check for insects.  It quickly spots something and pounces.
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Splosh!!

29/12/2018

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​One of the benefits of having a fountain in our front yard is that we sometimes see birds diving in beak-first, like this noisy miner:
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A weekend at Boorowa

13/11/2018

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​A couple of weeks ago I was asked to help with a weekend bird count at Boorowa, about 3.5 hours drive SW of Sydney.  The count was to focus on the Superb Parrot (Polytelus swainsonii), something I had never photographed, so I readily accepted.  As it turned out, we were indeed successful in seeing and photographing the parrots – this one below is a male.
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​But the back story is just as interesting.  After all, why would such a distant bird count be organised by Willoughby Council’s Habitat Restoration Officer in Sydney?

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