Went out birding this afternoon and ended up at the Samsonvale cemetery, by Lake Samsonvale. I spotted a few birds there, and then this lone Green Catbird, which was most unexpected as they are usually rainforest birds and this was very much scrubby bushland.
It was slightly warmer this morning on campus (12潞C) so some of the frogs were out (they tend not to come out when it's colder than that).
Here's one of the two I found (the other was in a bad spot, photographically).
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A Noisy Miner on a red flower on campus last week.
Big crops for a little bird. These White-headed Sittella (now classified as Varied Sittella) were high up in one of the trees in my front yard a few minutes ago, searching for grubs and bugs in the bark.
I had a hot tip from someone at work that there was an "eagle type bird nesting in a tree by the AFL fields".
Sure enough, upon checking this morning, I found a nest, and its owner, a Brahminy Kite, high in a Kauri Pine.
A pair of Willie Wagtails I came across yesterday.
Every year when I'm able, I take part in the annual Glossy Black Cockatoo survey. These birds are classified as Vulnerable to Endangered. Each year, I find evidence of the birds but no birds. The survey is usually Sept.
So this year, I decided to head out a month and a bit earlier than the official survey, and it paid off. I spotted a small flock of 6 birds, and managed to have a close encounter with a male/female pair feeding.
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