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@annie c
What a beautiful chorus! Love the collection and some so colourful.
Yes it's true CWA birds
"...And that loud chattering is how it got its other name: the CWA bird. Which refers to the Country Women’s Association, because apparently these nattering birds used to remind people of their meetings..."
Here we have visits from
Rosellas
Kookaburra
Finches
New Holland honeyeaters
Cockatoos
Black yellow tailed Cockatoos
Pallid cuckoo
Pigeon doves
Butcher birds
Magpies
The horrid Indian Miner birds
Et cetera
Nature is a marvelous thing
Take care
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@iserbrown; those Indian Miners have such 'cranky' faces too! On our birdbath right now there are Crested Pigeons and Red-rumped Parrots.0
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I've got white winged choughs here at the moment. They behave a bit like apostle birds, hanging out in family groups of 10 or so. I've never seen them this far down out of the hills, but it's been so dry nothing surprises me.1
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I do love the sound of a Spangled Drongo - what a great name.
We have:
Adelaide Rosellas
Lorikeets
Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoos
Tree-climbers
Superb Blue Wrens
Magpies
Murray Magpies
Red-Tailed Finches
Wattlebirds
Golden Whistlers (very rare)
Scarlet Robins
Kestrels
Boobooks
Wedge-tailed Eagles (only in the sky)
and others that I can't remember!
The kangaroos have been coming down for years to eat the lawn in the dry months. The mum usually comes down with new joey and last year's joey and tolerates us - the old man hangs around on the hillside until we've gone. We've seen a lot of young adult kangaroos this year as well (previous joeys, perhaps) and we've been leaving the buckets of water out for them. We also get a lot of koalas around and the odd echidna. Of course the reptiles are well-represented as well - skinks and geckos, sleepys and blueys, and brown snakes and red-bellied blacks (not so nice to see). The cat came off worse from a brown a couple of years ago - an anxious wait and $1200 later...5 -
@Sister
I am a little envious of your koalas and echnidnas.
We have more birdlife than animal life on our block. We have the reptiles - skinks, house geckos, blue tongues, bobtails,
gilberts dragons, bungarras, frill neck lizards and snakes of course. There is a very large olive python living in the shed and many "cheeky" snakes (King Browns) are often observed. The olive python often hangs off the rafters watching Ian "create".
However apart from the very cute agile wallabies not much else in marsupial life. A girlfriend who lives some 5 blocks away has a family of echidnas at the back of her block where it backs onto bush. Some years ago there were northern quolls visiting, however the neighbours aquired themselves some very large pig dogs and I haven't seen the quolls since.
Very relunctantly we fenced the agile wallabies out of our block. They were doing much damage to the garden and reticulation. We seemed to spend much of our precious Sunday off repairing reticulation lines that had been dug up or chewed off.
However the wallabies did have retribution. After a weekend of fencing some 500 metres of pig wire topped with 3 rows of barbed wire, there were many cuts, scratches and barked knuckles. That was 10 years ago - couldn't do it now!
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@Sister
Ian search his bird photo bank and found a photo of a Spangled Drongo taken late 2018.
For a bird with a name of Spangled Drongo, he is pretty ordinary. No bling, no jewellery. Only thing "bling about him is his beady red eye.
In the bottom left corner of the photo, sitting on the waterbowl is a Sacred Kingfisher.3 -
Amend the Sacred Kingfisher to an Azure Kingfisher.
Should have checked the bird book instead of relying on memory!1 -
Oh...I forgot our kookaburras and various kingfishers - I never know which they are. I remember when my husband and I were camping up in the Kimberley. I'd cooked spaghetti bolognese for tea and had done way to much spaghetti so put it into a rubbish bag that was hanging on the edge of the stove, ready to throw away the next day. We were in the tent and heard some strange noises. Looked out to see a quoll scoffing the spaghetti. I think that was one marsupial that was headed for a stomach ache.1
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@Sister
That quoll would have had a feast. Cast iron stomachs. They are "bush vacuum cleaners".
Quolls regularly raid camp rubbish bins. Our friends who have a tourist bush camp at Bachsten Creek at the back of Mt Elizabeth Station have to remind their campers not to leave food out overnight that will be required the next day - it won't be there in the morning!
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Not really the garden, although the crocuses are peeking through... Taken from the kitchen window
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Cute, @Sister - less so when fully grown & male!
Sadly, our 2 orange/tangelo trees have been decimated by bloody possums! I bought a trap & we've caught 4-5 so far .... Hubby takes them to a forest about 2km away to release. I just hope they are not good at finding their way back again!
They have chewed every bloody leaf off both trees!! grrr No fruit this year!!
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A few pics from my backyard
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I've been working heaps of weekends and haven't been over to stay at my partner's house in a couple of months (it's 100 km away) There was no garden here when we met 7 years ago, just a row of icebergs up the drive and lawn to the front door. Hes always said he is not a gardeners armpit but, by jove, hes got the weeding and watering figured out. I plant and prune, and the results are very pleasing. It was such a pleasure to pull into the driveway yesterday, and I can now understand the gentle hints that it was time I came over because 'Things are getting a bit bushy'. This is before I hacked two ute loads of lavender, spent roses and daisies out of it. It will grow back in no time.
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