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BirdsByMe @birdsbyme.bsky.social · 12h

Morning Melbourne! ☀️ ☀️ ☀️

Fingers crossed 🤞🏻 for this guy in the 2025 Bird of Year.

#WildOz #OzBirds #birds 🦉📷 #TawnyFrogmouth #notanowl

Image of a doleful looking female Tawny Frogmouth in a Pine tree. Her partner is 75m away on a flimsy and precariously sited nest sharing incubation duties of a clutch of 2 eggs. It’s a worrying time of year for Tawnies.

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BirdsByMe @birdsbyme.bsky.social · 1d

Morning Melbourne!

The bush is teeming with the magnificent sounds of Golden whistlers atm. Such a very good thing.

#wildoz #ozbirds #birds 📷🦉

Close cropped image of a male Golden whistler, mouth agape, in full song. The catches his golden colouring & clear eyed-brilliance to perfection. A very good little birb.

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BirdsByMe @birdsbyme.bsky.social · 3d

Hedge trimmer!

#WildOz #OzBirds #birds 🦉📷 #crimsonrosella #birdsinbackyardsb

Image of an adult Crimson rosella in the middle of a fruiting Portwine magnolia hedge casually helping itself to some of the abundant buds.

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BirdsByMe @birdsbyme.bsky.social · 5d

Thrillseekers, remember to cast your vote here:

#birds 🦉📷

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Australian bird of the year 2025: vote for your favourite #birdoftheyear in the Guardian / BirdLife Australia poll

From little penguins to (very big) cassowaries, every bird has its fans. Vote for your favourite in the 2025 Guardian/BirdLife Australia poll

www.theguardian.com

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BirdsByMe @birdsbyme.bsky.social · 5d

Morning Melbourne! 💨 🌞 🌬️

All eyes on the weekend.

#wildoz #ozbirds #birds 📷🦉 #satinbowerbird

Female Satin bowerbird captured on the birdbath edge. The dominant aspect of the image is the piercing violet eye glinting in the sun.

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BirdsByMe @birdsbyme.bsky.social · 6d

Also the "Old County."

Cauldron Snout - a very good place.

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BirdsByMe @birdsbyme.bsky.social · 8d

Who says we don’t do #halloween in Straya?

#wildoz #ozbirds #birds 🦉📷 #easternyellowrobin

Image of a tiny Eastern yellow robin perched on a branch. Its head covered in spider web and evokes the increasing adorning of property as we get closer to the end of October = Halloween

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BirdsByMe @birdsbyme.bsky.social · 8d

Morning Melbourne! ⛅️

More signs summer is approaching.

#wildoz #ozbirds #birds 📷🦉 #birdsinbackyards #parrot

Image of female Yellow-tailed black cockatoo perched in an Acacia. She was with her life partner & 2 juvenile cockatoos. Every year about this time they ascend up into the hills to raise their young & feed on the plentiful pine seeds and tree grubs. It’s a sure sign summer is approaching.

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BirdsByMe @birdsbyme.bsky.social · 9d

Morning Melbourne! ☔️ 🥶 💨 ☔️

Try whistling this as you welcome in another week.

#ozbirds #wildoz #birds 🦉📷 #goldenwhistler

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BirdsByMe @birdsbyme.bsky.social · 10d

See, Tawnies do move.

#wildoz #ozbirds #birds 📷🦉 #tawnyfrogmouth #notanowl!

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BirdsByMe @birdsbyme.bsky.social · 12d

Satin bowerbird having a shower.

#wildoz #ozbirds #birds 🦉📷 #birdsinbackyards

Image of a sub-adult male Satin bowerbird. Young males, to the age of 7, are coloured like females with distinctively green/brown or otherwise entirely brown upper body and lighter under body with a distinct reticulated or scalloped pattern, but with very striking blue eyes. This guy’s eye is violet and his beak is lightly coloured showing advancing maturity.

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BirdsByMe @birdsbyme.bsky.social · 12d

Morning Melbourne! ☔️ 🌧️ ☔️ 🥶

Melbourne weather mood summed up to distinction. As I say “Don’t like the Melbourne weather … just wait.”

#wildoz #ozbirds #birds 📷🦉#australiankingparrot

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BirdsByMe @birdsbyme.bsky.social · 13d

Morning Melbourne! ❄️ 🥶 💨

Re-imagining a nursery rhyme; Strayan Style.

#wildoz #ozbirds #birds 🦉📷 #parrot #longbilledcorella

As I was photographing Arlo the mini schnauzer at play a I noticed a Long-billed flying towards me. I pointed the camera up, locked the focus, and snapped 3 images as it flew overhead. Little did I know I managed to capture the cockatoo directly below the crescent moon. Hey diddle diddle indeed. …

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BirdsByMe @birdsbyme.bsky.social · 14d

Morning Melbourne! 🥶 ☔️ 💨

And it’s pinch-punch time today!

Also today, the King of the hedge, lurking with malintent.

#wildoz #ozbirds #birds 📷🦉 #kingparrot #birdsinbackyards #parrot

Male Australian king parrot peering out from within the Portwine magnolia hedge. Bright red head, yellow ringed irises, and a deep green (British racing green?) body defines this articulate inquisitive parrot. Good birbs except when stealing uno”ripened tomatoes.

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BirdsByMe @birdsbyme.bsky.social · 15d

Morning Melbourne! ☔️

Eyes meet prize!

#wildoz #ozbirds #birds 📷🦉 #piedcurrawong

Image of a Pied currawong fixing its gaze on a flying insect. The image’s central highlight is the piercing yellow iris.

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BirdsByMe @birdsbyme.bsky.social · 16d

Morning Melbourne! 🌞 ☀️ 😎

Another instalment of BirbBathCam: the mimicry of the Satin bowerbird. Who knew?

#wildoz #ozbirds #birds 📷🦉 #BirdBathCam #birdsinbackyards