A female Superb Fairy-Wren to enhance your #WrensDay
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I was woken this morning by two kookaburras making a racket down the side passage. Turns out their beaks were stuck together (!)
While they scrambled and fought, trying to pull apart, a currawong sat on the fence commentating the life-or-death struggle.
After my sleepy brain had made sense of what the bloody hell was going on, I fetched some gloves and gently prised them apart. They both flew off in high dudgeon.
What a surreal start to the day.
#kookaburra #KookaburrasOfMastodon #AustralianAnimals #justAustralianthings #birding #birds #wildoz #AussieBirdCount
Edited 11d ago
We did the Koondaii Loop track this morning and encountered a few birds along the way. Here are four of them.
A Grey Goshawk, checking us out.
A Brown Cuckoo-Dove.
A Rufous Fantail.
And a Bassian Thrush.
#Bird #AustralianWildlife #WildOz #GreyGoshawk #BrownCuckooDove #RufousFantail #BassianThrush
My nemesis bird, the Pale-headed Rosella.
Extremely flighty, this one was approx 20m or so away, and still very nervous.
They usually hang around in pairs (and yes, there was a second, much closer, but hidden from me until it flew off).
#Bird #Parrot #PaleHeadedRosella #AustralianWildlife #WildOz
