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David de Groot 📸📸
@david@photog.social
David de Groot 📸📸
@david@photog.social

Lots of Rainbow Lorikeets around this morning at home. There are several large trees flowering in the area and each one is laden with noisy Rainbow Lorikeets.

#bird #parrot #RainbowLorikeet #AustralianWildlife #WildOz

Two brightly coloured parrots in a tree with some delicate white flowers. The parrots have red beaks, blue heads, red-orange chest, blue belly, green wings and tail. The front half of a Rainbow Lorikeet poking out from the foliage surrounded by green-white flowers. You can see its red beak and eye, blue head, yellow and green neck, red/orange/yellow chest. A Rainbow Lorikeet on a flower laden branch. It is reaching down towards some flowers, beak open, tongue out, ready to slurp some nectar.
David de Groot 📸📸
@david@photog.social

Introduced pest, yes, but still cute.

Fun fact, in Queensland, you can be fined up to $80,650 for keeping or feeding a rabbit if you do not have a rabbit keeping permit.

#EuropeanRabbit #Bunny #WildOz

A brown wild rabbit on a field of low grass.
David de Groot 📸📸
@david@photog.social

Three different Thornbills on the same property.

A #BrownThornbill (red eye)
A #BuffRumpedThornbill (white eye on a stick)
and a #StriatedThornbill (on a green metal arbour support).

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A tiny Brown Thornbill. As the name suggests, it's brown (well on top anyway) and has a small pointy beak (like a thorn). Its underside is grey/white with grey striations. A Buff-rumped Thornbill perched on a stick. It has a pale underside, brown upper and a white/grey eye. Once again, a dark short thorn-like beak. A Striated Thornbill on a green wire support. It has a stripy cheek, pale striated underside and grey/brown eye.
David de Groot 📸📸
@david@photog.social

Also, a collection of Rosellas from this morning.

A pair of Eastern Rosellas, and some Crimson Rosellas.

#bird #AustralianWildlife #WildOz #EasternRosella #CrimsonRosella

An Eastern Rosella perched on a piece of timber. The bird has a red head, neck and chest, white cheeks, yellow belly, greenish rump; blue, black and green wings. Looking up at an Eastern Rosella in the morning sunlight. The colours from the underneath are: Red head and neck and chest, white cheeks, yellow belly, greenish rump, red base-of-tail, pale blue tail (obscured by a branch) Crimson Rosella in a bush. It is mostly red, but with blue cheeks, and blue/black wings and tail. Juvenile Crimson Rosella up close. The head and body is mostly green but with patches of the adult colours coming through (blue cheeks, red cap and patchy red chest).
David de Groot 📸📸
@david@photog.social

Eastern Grey Kangaroos spotted yesterday arvo (the female with Joey in pouch) and this morning (the rest of them).

#AustralianWildlife #WildOz #EasternGreyKangaroo #macropod #marsupial

A female Eastern Grey Kangaroo standing, facing the camera. In her pouch is a joey with its head out, looking to the right of frame. Backlit silhouette of a young Eastern Grey Kangaroo, mid-bound. A mob of Eastern Grey Kangaroos (approx 8), standing amongst low eucalyptus trees. Adult and juvenile Eastern Grey Kangaroos in the early morning light. They're mostly facing left, ears up and alert.
David de Groot 📸📸
@david@photog.social

Some birds I spotted today outside of Canberra. (Bywong/Bungendore area).

#WedgeTailedEagle
a juvenile #CrimsonRosella
one of many #RedBrowedFinch es
and a male #SuperbFairywren

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A very large, dark brown/black eagle with a distinctive diamond shaped (wedged) tail, flying high overhead in a cloudless blue sky. A juvenile Crimson Rosella in a tree. The adult version is mostly red and blue, but the juvenile parrot still has a fair bit of green on the chest, wings and patches on its head. A tiny grey and green finch with red beak, bum, and brow, perched on some green coloured metal struts on an arbour. A tiny black and blue fairy wren on the grass. its long tail is a dark blue and sticking up in the air. Its head and neck are a bright blue, with black bandit stripe, black neck and black neck stripe. The belly is an off-white.
David de Groot 📸📸
@david@photog.social

And another set of birds from the morning walk the day before yesterday:

#YellowFacedHoneyeater
#LittleCorella in a nesting hollow
Juvenile #EasternWhipbird
#SpottedDove (an introduced bird)

#AustralianWildlife #WildOz #Bird

A small honeyeater in shades of brown, with a black head and yellow face. A broken off branch, that has a large hollow in the bottom, now full of Little Corella (there's another one below it inside the hollow that you cannot see). An olive coloured bird with black head and white cheeks, and a crest of black feathers, photographed from a low angle looking up at it. Looking at the back of a Spotted Dove. It's a brown dove with a black back of neck that is spotted with white dots.
David de Groot 📸📸
@david@photog.social

Good haul of birds this morning on a walk down by Toongabbie Creek.

This is a small selection, will post some more later.

The Red-whiskered Bulbul is an introduced species, and extremely flighty (got one mostly in focus shot before it moved on).

#AustralianWildlife #WildOz #SacredKingfisher #SuperbFairywren #CrimsonRosella #RedWhiskeredBulbul

A small kingfisher on a branch. It has a buff breast and belly, white collar, acqua head and wings, a little orange just above the beak. A male Superb Fairywren on a small branch. It has its tail up and head turned to the left of frame. Its head is black with light blue cap, cheeks and neck stripe. Its throat is covered in what usually look like black feathers, but in the sun you can see they refract blue. Belly is white and wings brown. Tail is blue as well. An immature Crimson Rosella with its back to the camera and head turned to the right of frame. It is mostly crimson in colour but the wings are patterned in black scalloped green and blue feathers. The tail is dusty blue and its cheeks are also blue. The adult colouring drops the greens and the blues become more vivid. A distant Red-Whiskered Bulbul in a bush. It has brown wings and tail on a white body. The head though is black capped with a black crest. It has a red patch by the eye.
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@david@photog.social

Rainbow Lorikeets being their usual noisy selves while feeding on some eucalyptus flowers.

#Bird #AustralianWildlife #WildOz #RainbowLorikeet

A small green. yellow and red parrot with a blue head in a eucalyptus tree with pink flowers. It is leaning forward, beak open (calling) over a flower. A small green winged yellow necked, red chested and blue headed parrot with its red beak open calling. A Rainbow Lorikeet perched above some pink flowers, wings flapping showing the colourful underside. The head and belly are blue, chest and underwing (at the base) red, yellow underwing near the tip, green back and a paler green-yellow neck. A Rainbow lorikeet perched at a spray of pink eucalyptus flowers. Its green back and tail is almost the same colour as the foliage, but its rich blue head and red chest make it more visible.
David de Groot 📸📸
@david@photog.social

Juvenile male Australian King Parrots are pretty funny with their blotchy colouring.

This one was hoping for some seed.

#AustralianWildlife #WildOz #Bird #AustralianKingParrot #juvenile

A Red and Green parrot pictured from the hip up. The belly is red, wings dark green, head a mix of green and blotchy red, with a red beak.