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Morning, Melbourne! 💨 ⛅️ 💨

Sights & sounds on a walk through Gembrook Park yesterday. Even managed an audio bomb from Puffing Billy.

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December 7, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Morning, Melbourne. ☀️ ⛅️ 😊

Some sun today = happiness.

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Image of a male Yellow-tailed black cockatoo happily feeding on some ripe pine cones.
December 7, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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Morning Melbourne! ☔️ 🥶 ☔️

Our divergence into summer was brief. Usual transmission has been restored. Here’s what I did yesterday - a meander along Walsdorf Creek in Harkaway. Only disappointment: no Powerful owls.

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December 6, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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Afternoon, Melbourne. ☔️ ☔️ ☔️

*sound on*

Away on the “2025, Full width ½ the height” tour where I came across a babbly flock of cockatiels … they do grow on trees…

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November 29, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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Evening, Melbourne! ☔️ ☁️ ☔️

Criminal hollow!

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Image of a Crimson rosella perched on the edge of a hollow which has been carved into a long since dead tree. It looks very pleased with itself.
November 23, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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Morning, Melbourne. ⛅️ 🆒 ⛅️

Deliva-burra!

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Image of a happy Laughing kookaburra with very large earthworm in its beak taking off from a tree.
November 20, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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Morning, Melbourne! 🌬️ 🥶 🌬️

Happy criminals.

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Adult & juvenile Crimson rosellas happily perched on a tree. The adult, with its vivid rosella colouring the dark scene, in the foreground protects the juvenile who’s behind it sitting at a hollow. With the plentiful rain we’ve had of late, the hollow has filled with water providing a niche (pun intended) waterhole for birds.
November 17, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Afternoon, Melbourne! ☔️ 🌧️ ☔️

Yesterday at the water-cooler!

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November 16, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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Morning, Melbourne! ☀️ 🥳 🌞

Every day is a good day …

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Image of a an immature Gang-gang cockatoo feeding from a messmate. Good Birbs very very good birbs
November 14, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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Afternoon Melbourne! ☔️ 💧 ☔️

Good weather for …

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Image of 3 baby Maned ducks sunning themselves on a path by a waterhole.
November 8, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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Morning Melbourne! 🌫️

Hop to it, the weekend’s nigh.

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Image of a Red-rumped or ground parrot leaping over a concrete tub. With the recent heavy rains, the tub is filled with water. These guys are highly coloured, especially males, with a blue-green upper leading to yellow at the underparts, deep blue wings leading to grey, and then there is their eponymous bright red rump clearly shown in this image. The females are a more demure khaki colour.
November 6, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Morning Melbourne ☁️ 🥶 ☔️

Borage forage.

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Image of an adult Crimson rosella dining in the abundant purple flowers of a Borage plant in the vegetable garden.
November 4, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Morning ☔️ 🏆 Melbourne 🏆 ☔️

*sound on*

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November 3, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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Why thanks. ☺️

I was spotting the bird closely. I knew it was about to swoop my dog who was walking with my wife some 20m ahead. Here is the previous frame: launch mode activated.
Image of a juvenile Grey butcherbird leaning forward into a strafing run from its perch.
November 3, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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Morning Melbourne! ☔️ 🚣 ☔️

Stealth mode: engaged ✅

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Image of a juvenile Grey butcherbird diving from its perch and about to swoop my unsuspecting pooch. Its wings are fully flared and landing gear retracted - full-on stealth mode.
November 3, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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Morning Melbourne! ☀️🌡️ ☀️

The cat that got the cream: avian style.

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Image of a Laughing kookaburra, feathers fluffed into a ball, displaying its dinner catch of a large garden lizard. We won’t mess around with these great birbs, they are well known to kill snakes for funsies.
November 2, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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Morning Melbourne! 🌧️

Intersecting inquisitive & idiosyncratic!

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Image of sub-adult male Gang-gang cockatoo. These gorgeous Australian cockatoos (parrots) are known for their idiosyncrasies: a call that sounds like a squeaky door, adult males with their vivid carmine-red head adorned by a fascinating feathery crest, a cheeky inquisitiveness, and being an all around brilliant species. I am so fortunate to have them on my doorstep.
October 30, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Morning Melbourne! 🌞 😎 🌞

Breakfast anyone?

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Closely cropped image of an Eastern rosella feeding on the ground. The reds, blues, yellows, and greens of this shy little parrot positively scream out of image - internally enhanced using Nikons Vivid mode. As if it needed that! Very good little birb.
October 29, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Morning Melbourne! 🌞 🧊 🌞

Pensive, a portrait!

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Image of an adult Grey butcherbird posing pensively atop a metal post. Good birbs.
October 27, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Afternoon Melbourne! ☔️ 🥶 ☔️

Too wet for a walk so here’s a composite video cobbled from several stills captured yesterday of an Eastern whipbird. These forest floor dwellers do present quite the challenge.

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October 26, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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Morning Melbourne! ⛅️

Caught! Red … Headed.

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Image of male King parrot on a terracotta pot about to make a meal of the flowering plants. These guys are well known for 5eir voracious eating on flowering plants and especially adore immature green tomatoes.
October 24, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Morning Melbourne! ☔️ ☔️

Breakfast: earthworm with just a hint of HCOOH

Bitten off more than it could chew?

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Cropped image of a Laughing kookaburra playing with a recently captured earthworm in its beak. As a bonus, a large ant can be seen in its beak. Ants produce formic acid (an pungent acrid vinegar-like carboxylic acid) as a defense mechanism and this may be reason the Kookaburra looks like it has bitten off more than it can chew.
October 21, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Morning Melbourne! ☔️

Wet start to the week at least we had a fine weekend!

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A Red wattlebird enjoying a mouthful of insects as the sun shines brightly. Image is beautifully side-lighted casting the background in full shadow save for the tree on which it sits.
October 19, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Morning Melbourne! 🌬️

A brilliant day for twitching yielded a close encounter with a Superb Lyrebird. These guys are masters of mimicry & I’ve used the captured grainy images (very low light) over a soundtrack taken previously in Gembrook Park.

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October 18, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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Morning Melbourne!

Back to cool again. This is not a laughing matter.

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Image of Laughing kookaburra sitting atop a concrete post… looking intently at the ground for its next feed.
October 18, 2025 at 1:05 AM