Female Mistletoebird jumps to it after collecting nest material from palm trunk at Tyto Wetlands.
Tried backtracking bird to nest today but flight across water sunk my sleuthing.
Northern Fantail sitting pretty after putting finishing touches to neat cup nest with little dangling tail.
Brown-backed Honeyeater spends almost a week building nest alongside the Tyto hide. Change of mind yesterday and bird seen pulling apart new nest and shifting materials to less open site 20m away.
Shifting no more, seldom seen Giant Centipede on Tyto track becomes food for the ants. Do not mess with the painful biters if alive.
Spikier, but friendlier, Bearded Dragon seldom bites, preferring to play dead if caught out in the open.
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Lament for southern Black-throated Finches
Hollow logs for at risk birdies? Nature's nest boxes if you please Oh, such a clever wheeze So gather in twos and threes? Hundreds you w...
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White-faced Heron stands up and begs picture be taken at Tyto. The birds can develop some trust in people, but I've never found any aro...
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Munching on mantids, it's what Pacific Bazas do. Putting it another way, preying on Praying Mantises makes their mornings. Specially whe...
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Who gives way on footbridge, Yellow-spotted Monitor or unspotted bird watcher? Naturally, dinkum locals have right-of-way. I step aside, Spo...
Here be dragons.
ReplyDeleteGreat shots! Love the dragon lizard.
Never seen a Mistletoebird the whole time I lived in N.S.W. Finally saw one in S.A in 2014.