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Sherbrooke Forest is such a marvel. It’s only a few kilometres from a #Melbourne metro train station (Belgrave) but feels like civilisation is forever away. It’s so peaceful and beautiful

A small creek running through a rocky gully surrounded by ferns

A forest scene with very tall eucalyptus trees and ferns

A forest scene with eucalyptus trees and ferns and a small creek running through the middle

A forest scene with tall eucalyptus trees and ferns

Joanna Holman

@joannaholman@aus.social replied · 6 days ago

Also took a walk in Birdsland reserve near Belgrave and with some help spotting them saw these Tawny Frogmouths. Love seeing these weirdos so much but struggle to spot them on my own

#birds #birding #wildoz

Two tawny frogmouth birds in a gumtree. They look kinda like a grumpy owl made out of tree bark

A tawny frogmouth bird in a gumtree. They look kinda like a grumpy owl made out of tree bark

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@david@photog.social · 3 weeks ago

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.

#bird #GreenCatbird #AustralianWildlife #WildOz

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@david@photog.social · 3 weeks ago

#bird #GreenCatbird #AustralianWildlife #WildOz

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@david@photog.social · 3 weeks ago

It was slightly warmer this morning on campus (12ºC) 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).

#AustralianWildlife #WildOz #EasternDwarfTreeFrog #frog #TinyFrogThursday

The same frog, now shot from higher and to the left. The frog is facing obliquely right and from this angle, in the sun, looks more brown than green.

A very small frog on a guinea grass stem, shot face on. It has its legs tucked up under itself and is mostly a brownish-green.

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@david@photog.social · 3 weeks ago

It was slightly warmer this morning on campus (12ºC) 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).

#AustralianWildlife #WildOz #EasternDwarfTreeFrog #frog #TinyFrogThursday

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Joanna Holman

@joannaholman@aus.social · 4 weeks ago

Turns out that wedged between the huge Westgate bridge and an industrial estate a few kilometres from the city centre in melbourne lies a surviving patch of bush full of tiny, bouncing Superb Fairywrens. There’s something moving about seeing that surrounded by human ugliness, life and beauty finds a way

#melbourne #birds #birding #wildoz

A superb Fairywren bird. They are a small and round with light blue, dark blue, grey and white

A tiny and round white and grey Superb Fairywren bird with a bright blue tail

A tiny and round white and grey Superb Fairywren bird with a bright blue tail standing on grass

Joanna Holman

@joannaholman@aus.social · 4 weeks ago

#melbourne #birds #birding #wildoz

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@david@photog.social · 4 weeks ago

A Noisy Miner on a red flower on campus last week.

#Bird #AustralianWildlife #WildOz #NoisyMiner

A grey bird with a yellow beak, and yellow patch behind its eye. It has a black cap that extends behind the yellow patch.
It is perched on a large spray of red flowers from a large succulent. — A grey bird with a yellow beak, and yellow patch behind its eye. It has a black cap that extends behind the yellow patch. It is perched on a large spray of red flowers from a large succulent.

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@david@photog.social · 4 weeks ago

A Noisy Miner on a red flower on campus last week.

#Bird #AustralianWildlife #WildOz #NoisyMiner

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@david@photog.social · 4 weeks ago

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.

#Bird #AustralianWildlife #WildOz #VariedSittella

A small grey bird with white head, completely upside down, hanging from the end of a broken branch. It is looking for bugs and grubs.

A photo of a small grey bird with a white head and short pointy black beak. It is mostly upside down, clinging to the side of a rough barked tree, searching for insects in the bark.

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@david@photog.social · 4 weeks ago

#Bird #AustralianWildlife #WildOz #VariedSittella

Wesley Moore

@wezm@mastodon.decentralised.social · last month

We have a new resident Tawny Frogmouth! We've seen it a number of times now, and it was on the fence opposite our house when I took my walk after work tonight.

I got the new big lens and tripod out and got some photos. Fortunately they stay still, so this 7.5s exposure worked ok.

#BirdsOfMastodon #WildOz #Photography #WildlifePhotography

Photo of a squat, scruffy bird sitting on a fence with its head turned to the side. The texture and colours of its feathers look almost exactly like tree bark.

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@david@photog.social · last month

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.

#Bird #AustralianWildlife #WildOz #BrahminyKite

A substantial nest, hidden in the branches of a Kauri Pine. It looks to be approximately 1m or so in diameter, and about 40-50cm tall and is made of sticks.

A medium sized bird of prey perched in partial shade in a Kauri Pine. It has a shite chest and head, brown wings, tail and rump. It is staring down at the camera.

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@david@photog.social · last month

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.

#Bird #AustralianWildlife #WildOz #BrahminyKite

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@david@photog.social · last month

A pair of Willie Wagtails I came across yesterday.

#Bird #AustralianWildlife #WildOz #WillieWagtail

A small round black and white bird (black on top, white underneath), perched on a barbed wire fence. There are a couple of long grass stems nearby, but otherwise the background is smoothly blurred.

A small black and white bird (black on top, white underneath) that is mostly round. It has white brows and angled stripes on each cheek such that when it looks directly at you (as it is in the photo), there is a white cross that centres on the beak,.

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@david@photog.social · last month

A pair of Willie Wagtails I came across yesterday.

#Bird #AustralianWildlife #WildOz #WillieWagtail

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@david@photog.social · last month

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.

#bird #AustralianWildlife #WildOz #GlossyBlackCockatoo

Another pair (maybe the same) way off in the distance, just perched on a dead branch. Even at a distance, they aren't particularly black, or glossy.

The male and female pair feeding. Female is higher in the tree and behind the male. Both are nibbling on casuarina cones.

Male Glossy Black Cockatoo, holding a casuarina cone in one cone, nibbling at it. His body is facing the camera, but head is turned to the right. He's a more uniform black-ish colour (also not glossy), with red tail feathers visible.

Female adult Glossy Black Cockatoo feeding on casuarina cones. She is blackish (but not glossy), with a yellow neck, and formidable slate coloured beak. In this shot, she's holding a cone in one claw, and looking directly at the camera.

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@david@photog.social · last month

#bird #AustralianWildlife #WildOz #GlossyBlackCockatoo