enjoying bird watching

Hi @Merv
Fantastic photos.  Especially love the kookaburra.  We have a new bird bath which is huge and the magpies were having a great time yesterday but I was not quick enough to get a shot.  The camera is near the window and ready to go if I hear them again.
Summer   ;)

Gorgeous pics @Merv

Mr Scarlet Robin and the not quite as glamorous Mrs are an absolute delight in our garden.



And the young kookaburras also provide plenty of entertainment ..when not trying to kill eachother!

Dear @LMK74, @AnnieC and @sister,
Thank you for your wonderful bird lists. I am just starting my day with a cup of coffee and enjoying imagining those birds - such a variety! Best wishes to all.

Sounds gorgeous, @AnnieC We're on 56 acres in the Adelaide Hills (mostly bushland) and border a natural bush reserve and I struggle to remember all of the birds we see around the place (but then I struggle to remember my own name some days).  I love listening to the magpies and kookaburras first thing in the morning.  We have Adelaide Rosellas, Lorikeets, Red-browed Finches, Golden Whistlers (not often as very endangered), Eastern Spinebills, Yellow-Tailed Cockatoos as well as a lot of other cockatoos and galahs, Superb Blue Wrens, Scarlet Robins and others I've no doubt forgotten, along with a small mob of emus that hang around the place.

Hello @jennyss
We live on 5 acres ( our little bit of selfishness!) in the Kimberley. I will say that 5 acres was very romantic at 45 years of age but it is damn hard work at 65! However the decision to downsize is very difficult - one that we are still uncomfortable with.  

Our garden is very tropical with lots of birds. One of my morning pleasures is to sit on my verandah with my first coffee of the day and watch the sun rise. I am seranaded with birdsong.

We are visited by butcher birds, peewees (mudlarks), bower birds, babblers (cwa birds!!), leathernecks (friar birds), double bar finches, honey eaters, oriels, rainbow bee eaters, tawny frog mouths (they roost in our shed during the day), whistling kites, blue wing kookaburras, red wing parrots, rainbow lorrikeets, little corellas, straw neck ibis ( bin chickens), and sacred kingfishers. Jabirus and brolgas fly over and sometimes land. We also have singing thrushes which nest in the shed unconcerned by the tawny frog mouths. To date the singing thrushes have successfully raised 4 lots of bubbies. I am sure that I have missed many. The birds are attracted by the many water points around the garden and are very possessive about "their" water bowl. 

Hi everyone I love to be in the moment with the bush and creek visita from the deck..the noise from the bird calls is always loud we have so many birds that visit the most regular are bowerbirds the female loves the bird bath and the blue black male is aways perched nearby on guard...No feeders needed..Today a new call and much rustling in shrubs a new visitor a flycatcher lots of darting so unable to photo..
Cheers Bright 

Crows, magpies, butcher birds, noisy minors, lorries, native honey eaters, the occasional Bush Turkey, blue tongue lizards and skinks. Not bad for living in suburbia and so close to the city. I have a big garden with lots of natives that attract all sorts. Even the occasional pheasant which are beautiful. I love wildlife and think Australia has the most beautiful of any other country.

Here's one of part of my garden and Ally the cat checking something out

Fantastic photo @iserbrown. Your place looks like a place of peace. Nature is a joy to watch.  Keep some photos coming for those of us who live in the cities. Anne