Hi there and welcome to the Christmas day edition of Wild Bird Wednesday! By the time this posts the big day will have started in New Zealand and be just a few hours old in Australia. You guys in the west will have to wait a little longer!
Just a post and run today - but I thought I'd put up some bowerbirds As cardboard cut-outs they would make great decorations on a Christmas tree - and in the flesh they are real show stoppers!
Thanks to all the linkers, commenters, +1ers and folk who just pop now and then for making WBW what it is. I have no idea how it ranks compared to other bird sites - but I think we have build a good little community here - so I'll see you in 2014.
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| Satin Bowerbird (female) |
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| Satin Bowerbird (female) |
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| Satin Bowerbird (male) |
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| Regent Bowerbird (female and male) |
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| Regent Bowerbird (female) |
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| Regent Bowerbird (Male x2 and female) |
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| Regent Bowerbird (male) |
Now its your turn to join in - if you are here on Christmas day (or there abouts) I assume you know what to do!
Great birds indeed Stewart.
ReplyDeleteMany thanks for your efforts in hosting this wonderful weekly journey through the world of birds and birding, your a star.
Enjoy the festivities
Dave
Such colourful birds. Hope you have had a wonderful day. xx
ReplyDeletereally gorgeous birds. merry christmas to you and yours, stewart. thanks for hosting wbw.
ReplyDeleteReally beautiful birds Stewart.
ReplyDeleteMany of them are in the Netherlands are not.
I wish you and all your loved ones a Merry Christmas a happy and especially healthy 2014.
Greetings Irma
They are really pretty birds!
ReplyDeleteHave a marvelous Christmas, Stewart!
Gorgeous!! Every variation is so different and all beautiful! Thank you for hosting WBW!! Enjoy your Christmas and Happy New Year!
ReplyDeleteGreat photos of beautiful birds!
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas!
Lea
What beauties! I'd take a live one of those Regent Bowerbirds for our Christmas tree.
ReplyDeleteYou have put together a nice community, Stewart. Thank you, and Merry Christmas!
Interesting looking bird.
ReplyDeleteI guess i should have posted a "Christmas Goose" well on the table kind. Haha!
Merry Christmas to one and all and thanks for hosting this site and I hope you will continue. MB
Thank you so much Stewart fo all that you do...I think it is a marvelous site. Merry Christmas to you and your family. I agree, any of these beauties would make great Christmas adornments!
ReplyDeleteThose Regent Bowerbirds looking amazing. I have really enjoyed joining in with Wild Bird Wednesday and I hope you keep doing it for a long time. Have a Merry Christmas with your family. From Findlay
ReplyDeleteStunning birds! Merry Christmas to all participants!
ReplyDeleteStunning birds Stewart. Merry Christmas to you and I look forward to the continuation of Wild Bird Wednesday in 2014.
ReplyDeleteReally nice and colorful!!!! Gorgeous! Happy holiday! All my best! Chris
ReplyDeleteGreat photos of the Bowerbirds. I don't have experience of the Regent B but the Satin B are a disaster around fruit trees! They don't eat a lot but they spoil it all for others!!
ReplyDeleteHappy Holidays - I meant to say - and thanks for hosting WBW!
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas and happy holidays.
ReplyDeleteheel mooi deze serie,geweldig.
ReplyDeleteWhat? You couldn't find a red and green bird to post? Well a bird with purple eyes and little green tufts on it's cere will do for this special day. They are all beautiful and I couldn't agree more, you certainly have built a wonderful community and I am happy to be part of it. I know because you have children at home that this will be a fun time for you and your family. My best wishes to all of you ... Thanks for a great year of birding. I love what I learn from you, and am looking forward to another fun year...
ReplyDeleteAndrea @ From The Sol
That regent Bower Bird is stunning. Best to you and yours on this day Stewart.
ReplyDeleteWow, that Male Regents Bower bird is gorgeous! Wishing you and your family a Merry Christmas!
ReplyDeleteStewart, these are cool looking birds. The Satin Bowerbird has beautiful blue eyes. And the Regents Bowerbird is so colorful and pretty. Gorgeous photos. Thanks for hosting, I was not sure if it would happen with the holiday.
ReplyDeleteWishing you and yours a very Merry Christmas!
I just LOVE the Regents Bowerbird Stewart; when at O'Reilleys I had one very fleeting glance at it, in heavy downpour! You got some terrific close-ups here; best wishes, and thanks for hosting Wild Bird Wednesday for each of us ardent birders and nature-lovers
ReplyDeleteBeautiful birds! Merry Christmas!
ReplyDeleteHyvää ja Rauhallista Joulua...
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Suomi/Lapland/Kuusamo
Love the blue eyes of the satin b.bird. The regent bright yellow & black b.bird looks fabulous . Merry Christmas !
ReplyDeleteDon't you just love the female bowerbird? In my book her markings outshine the metallic male. A lovely post Stewart. Hope you all are having the best Christmas ever.
ReplyDeleteIt just cooled down here too and, oh bliss oh joy, I can open the house and let the cool air drift through.
They sure are beautiful!! Merry Christmas!
ReplyDeleteHappy Holidays, Stewart! We're visiting daughter and family in Alaska for Christmas. Just thought I'd take a quick minute and do a few comments this morning before anyone else gets up. It's 37 degrees below zero this morning! They Yellow and Black bird is very striking.
ReplyDeleteWow, those are amazing birds, great photos - thanks for sharing them, Stewart. Wishing everyone who celebrates it a very Merry Christmas, and to those who don't, very happy Wednesday/ Thursday depending on timezones, which always befuddle me!
ReplyDeleteThe bower birds are making a better show of it then the England team Stewart.
ReplyDeleteBest for 2014 - see you then.
Wow, these bower birds are gorgeous! A wonderful yellow!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful birds. And good to know they are a traditional tree ornament!
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ReplyDeleteBeautiful birds, found you via Andrea @ From the Sol hope to join in with you in the New Year.
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