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Kell

@wallaboo.bsky.social

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Licensed wildlife rehabilitator, nature nerd, enthusiastic citizen scientist, and exhausted parent. Always excited about Australian wildlife. AuDHD. Living on unceded Darkinyoong land. She/her. 🦘🇦🇺

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Kell @wallaboo.bsky.social · 2d

Nankeen Night-Heron showed up on our dam last week, which was very nice of since I got to record it in my #AussieBirdCount surveys. Doesn’t like having its photo taken, but I finally got it! #ausbirds

A bird with a chest back, white belly and black-capped head. It has a yellow eye and black bill, and it looks slightly alarmed. It is standing amongst reeds and other pond vegetation.

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Kell @wallaboo.bsky.social · 2d

My children have set up a box from which to spy on the brown cuckoo-doves. The cuckoo-doves are suspicious of the giggling box but not enough to pass up the offer of seeds.

A cardboard box with a hole cut in the bottom. A child’s nose and glasses are visible peeking through the hole. On top of the box is a brown cuckoo-dove, and another stands in front of the box. Occasionally the doves slap each other (not pictured) which is hilarious, according to the box-dwellers.

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Kell @wallaboo.bsky.social · 14d

Succeeded at my Snipe hunt today ✅
#ausbirds

A Latham’s Snipe, that is, by some miracle, not flying away so the only picture I get is a vague brown blur. It is wading through a grassy bit of wetland. Not pictured: the other four Latham’s Snipes I saw today, who all bailed out before I’d even lifted the camera.

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Kell @wallaboo.bsky.social · 16d

Some releases are exciting and beautiful celebrations of freedom, as the animal flies/hops/runs away from us. Echidna releases are…. not like that. Safe travels little one! #wildliferehab #auswildlife

An echidna curled up amongst leaves and grass, going nowhere fast.

Kell @wallaboo.bsky.social · 19d

Female Scarlet Myzomela - they look so delicate. #ausbirds

A small brown honeyeater with red cheeks in a tree full of red flowers. If you look closely you might also notice a Silvereye lurking in the background.

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Dr swift parrot @teamswiftparrot.bsky.social · 20d

This week we’ve been monitoring regent parrot breeding- look at this little cutie 😭🩵😇

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Kell @wallaboo.bsky.social · 20d

A great day of birding for #OctoberBigDay - we finished with 86 species, 3 lifers for me, and a sunburn because I forgot to pack sunscreen.
#ausbirds #ebird

A lair pair of black and white storks flying overhead.

A nondescript brown bird on a weathered log. It is a Rufous Songlark and it had a lot to say.

A brown bird on a wire. (Australian Pipit)

A cute little yellow bird on a branch. (Yellow thornbill)

Kell @wallaboo.bsky.social · 21d

Ah yes, the elegant Great Egret. So graceful. #ausbirds

A Great Egret (big white leggy bird) attempting to land and failing. It is carrying a twig.

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Kell @wallaboo.bsky.social · 23d

Scruffy little Eastern Yellow Robin fledgling ❤️ #ausbirds

A mostly brown and grey fledgling with yellow feathers just starting to come in on it’s breast. It is perched on a stick with a green leafy background.

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Kell @wallaboo.bsky.social · 27d

Found this cutie while gardening yesterday. A Three-toed Skink! 🦎#auswildlife #backyardwildlife

A skink with very tiny legs and a beautiful yellow belly, held in a hand.

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Kell @wallaboo.bsky.social · Sep 9

Black-necked Stork showed up at the local wetlands. Legs for daysssss #ausbirds

A black and white bird with a huge black bill and long orange legs, walking through long grass.

Kell @wallaboo.bsky.social · Sep 7

Hooray for migratory shorebird season starting 👏👏👏 #ausbirds

A Bar-tailed Godwit standing on a sandy tidal flat.

Kell @wallaboo.bsky.social · Sep 4

Wish I’d thought of that as a caption!

Kell @wallaboo.bsky.social · Sep 4

Did our spring Waterbug survey today. Please enjoy this video of the gills on this mayfly larva.

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Kell @wallaboo.bsky.social · Aug 26

Gotcha! The Emu-wren decided to play nice today and let me take a picture. There were a pair actually, it was a great day for birding. #ausbirds #wildoz

A tiny brown bird with a blue bib and a long wispy tail perched in a twiggy stem.

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Kell @wallaboo.bsky.social · Aug 23

They are a cat-sized carnivorous marsupial. Vulnerable species - seeing one in the wild is an incredible treat.

Kell @wallaboo.bsky.social · Aug 23

Oh these are wonderful! We don’t really have fences so I usually set my camera traps on animals trails. Mostly I get lots of brush turkeys, lyrebirds, wombats and wallabies. Quoll has been the bucket list animal!

Kell @wallaboo.bsky.social · Aug 23

The way they move is just amazing.

Kell @wallaboo.bsky.social · Aug 22

We've lived on this property for 13 years and I've been trying to catch a quoll on my trail cams basically since we moved in. Never seen one. But today one turned up and tried to break into the (fortunately secure) aviary. This is the most exciting thing ever. #wildoz #ausmammals

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Kell @wallaboo.bsky.social · Aug 16

It started pouring with rain on our walk yesterday. Anyway fun fact turns out pelicans drink rainwater by just sitting there with their bills open. They even moved to align themselves with the direction the rain was coming in. So that's cool. #ausbirds #wildoz #pelican

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Kell @wallaboo.bsky.social · Aug 15

A Wedge-tailed Eagle showed up at the wetlands yesterday. The resident pair of Black-shouldered Kites were very unhappy about it. #ausbirds #wildoz

An airborne brown eagle being pursued by a smaller white kite.

A large brown eagle being attacked by a smaller white kite.

A large brown eagle, looking up at a smaller white kite. The kite is screaming at the eagle.

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Kell @wallaboo.bsky.social · Aug 15

Tawny frogmouth would be my guess too.

Kell @wallaboo.bsky.social · Aug 12

Yeah when I spotted this one I saw a dozen males but only two females, I do wonder how many more females were present but hiding too well for me to see.

Kell @wallaboo.bsky.social · Aug 12

He does! Though personally I think a better name could have been chosen, since you don't see the red rump from most angles. (And the poor female gets saddled with a name for a feature she doesn't have.)

A small parrot walking through the grass. He has a green head, yellow belly, turquoise wings and a barely visible red rump.

Kell @wallaboo.bsky.social · Aug 11

It’s amazing well these little guys camouflage in the grass. (Red-rumped Parrot) #ausbirds #wildoz

A brightly coloured parrot with a green and turquoise head, yellow belly and turquoise wings. He is eating yellow flower heads.

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