Wild Bird Wednesday 418 - Tawny Frogmouth

The Tawny Frogmouth (Podargus strigoides) is a great looking bird - assuming you can defeat their cryptic camouflage and find them!

These birds - there are two in these pictures - were sitting in a tree near the car park at Banuyle Flats a few weeks ago.  This was one of the trips I took before we headed back into lock-down!

It's a bit of a puzzle to work out which parts of the second bird are which!

These birds are nocturnal hunters - and ad you can see, they don't do much during the day!

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Wild Bird Wednesday 417 - 10 Parrots

Due to the restrictions of C19 I am only allowed to take 'exercise' walks outside at present - I am not sure if that really includes bird watching!  I could mount the argument that if I am carrying my longest lens and a tripod I really am doing some exercise!

However, I had no camera equipment with me yesterday when I went for a walk - but I still managed to see 10 species of parrot between leaving my front door and coming home.

These are the species I saw - although I did not take these picture yesterday, they have been gleaned from the archives!

Crimson Rosella

Eastern Rosella

Galah

Gang Gang Cockatoo

King Parrot

Little Corella

Rainbow Lorikeet

Musk Lorikeet

Red-rumped Parrot

Yellow Tailed Black Cockatoo

It would be reasonable to say that this does not happen every day - and it may not really happen in many places in the world really.

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Wild Bird Wednesday 416 - Silver Gulls

The Silver Gull (Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae) is the most common gull in Australia.  It is the default gull of beaches, swamps, chip shops and pretty much everywhere you find gulls.

Silver Gulls are not a large gull - being about the same size (more or less) as a Black-Headed Gull in the UK.

These birds were loafing about on the beach at Waratah Bay in Victoria last week.  I like the emptiness of these pictures, and the stillness, which somehow seems to fit my current mood.

We were lucky enough to be able to go away for a few days last week, hence the trip to Waratah Bay, but we are now back in a 'soft lock-down' - which basically means that birding trips are not really possible.  I should have showing a friend of mine the wonders of Victorian birds at this time - but clearly not.

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Wild Bird Wednesday 415 - Little Pied Cormorant

Hi there - this weeks WBW is brought to you by the Little Pied Cormorant (Microcarbo melanoleucos) and the number 415.  I took these pictures during a walk on a windy day in one of my local parks.  The whole C19 things is really starting to get me down - but WBW continues on!

This Little Pied Cormorant is doing the classic wing drying / heat regualtion pose shown by many birds from this group.  I am rather fond of the sharp 'hair cut' that this species of bird shows.

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