These are a couple of Noisy Miner chicks in a tree in my front yard a few weeks ago.
May 28, 2025
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There are quite a few Noisy Miners around here and a not so scared young one often flies in under the verandah catching small spiders. Sometimes it will perch on the clothesline just over my head - drives the dog crazy...
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Hungry tit ?
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Unfortunately, around here anyway, Noisy Miners have become so successful in the urban environment that they tend to drive out other types of birds. 10 or so years ago, we would get a lot of Willy Wagtails, New Holland Honeyeaters and some other smaller birds in our backyard but we pretty much never see them now.
Anyway, here is a photo I took of a Great Egret earlier this year at Normanville on the Southern Fleurieu Peninsula, South of Adelaide.
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This is a Rainbow Lorikeet in a Grevillea Bush.
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My very first full frame photo, with my new Nikon D600 and old Series E 135mm 2.8...
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Can anyone tell me what this bird is?
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It looked like a type of Jay to me, and then AI identified it as a probable Eurasian Jay.
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Most of the local birds have been missing the last couple of months or so. I have no idea why. So I was happy to see a couple of young Honeyeaters casing my favourite dragonfly spot. I watched one checking out some of the dragonflies but it probably knew it wouldn't be able to catch any...
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Birds over the ocean
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A Cooper's Hawk that spent four or five hours on our fence on a very cold gray morning
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Here are a couple of photos of a Brush Turkey with his nest, which is basically a pile of sticks and leaves about 1 metre high and about 4 metres in diameter. These were taken in Sydney. The Brush Turkey are a protected species (which pretty much all native birds and animals are) so if one decides to build a nest on your property, there's nothing you can do about it!
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I like #1, 4 and 5.
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White-necked Heron
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Nice catch, Can use some shadow lifting to reveal details under the wings.
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Here are some photos of some water birds I took at Goolwa on the Southern Fleurieu Peninsula in South Australia.
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Golden-headed Cisticola
After a couple of months of hardly any birds around, there seems to be a whole lot of new young ones now - this one was very chirpy at my presence but stayed close enough for some good close shots - uncropped full image.
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Here are some more water birds. These were all taken at Goolwa also.
And this is the Goolwa Barrage where I took all these photos.
