A rare bird to be seen at the “Bowl”, but one which is famous for being heard is the Superb Lyrebird. Ours used to be expert at mimicking a ringing desk phone ( when we still had them). Search for “lyrebird calls” on YouTube and you’ll get many examples of them mimicking other birds and power tools(!).
Our Blaxland Birds List
Elsewhere about the Lyrebird:
* Wikipedia
* Calls
You rarely see just one Noisy Miner and groups often dominate the birdbath. They are pretty cheeky and never sit still, jealous of other birds wanting a sip or a dip.
Our Blaxland Birds List
Elsewhere about the Noisy Miner:
* Wikipedia
* Calls (Youtube)
The bird which dominates the dish is the Sulphur Crested Cockatoo. Bossy and noisy.
You can’t get away from them, even in the supermarket car park… But we still wouldn’t be without them.
The tree behind our house. It’s not particularly beautiful, but we love it and so do the local birds.
A couple of years ago, we “inherited” a bird bath and found a place for it near the tree.
We added a “BirdCam” to keep an eye on the birds frequenting it. It automatically captures visitors, day and night.
The rest of this month’s images are mostly from this BirdCam…
An earlier writeup about this site.
In the early 70’s, when we lived in Naremburn, Joost Brouwer gave us a Galah to look after. Very entertaining, but not a bird we would keep in a cage today… One day he flew away, preferring freedom over the daily newspaper…
This month, spurred on by distant cousin, @linlovesart, we’ll be doing a social media post every day about birds. First a bit of history with this photo, taken on the Gold Coast a few years back…
Well, that got April Fools out of the way and we can continue with daily posts about Blaxland Birds. No doubt, we’ll get back to Rainbow Lorikeets along the way….
More Rainbow Lorikeet entries:
* Nesting!
* Close…
* Art
Other birds
* Blaxland Birds list
More info elsewhere:
* Wikipedia entry
* on ebird
Last but not least in Linda‘s series of Australian bird drawings, an Australian icon. We see them often on our washing line, spying for a worm or other delicacy. The Kookaburra’s call is iconic and hard to miss. They don’t come for a drink, so I haven’t captured one on the camera yet…
* Blaxland Birds list
Elsewhere about this bird:
* Wikipedia
* ebird
Linda has set us a challenge today by posting this beautiful rendering of that tiny bird. Never seen one “in the flesh” but I think I heard one the other day. I thought it was a Bellbird at the time, but checking its call on ebird just now, it probably was one of these cute little creatures.
* Blaxland Birds list
More info elsewhere:
* Wikipedia
* ebird
Another lovely rendition of one of “our” birds by Linda. I keep encouraging her to add audio to her art, to no avail.
We hear them more often then we see them.
More Whipbird entries:
* Whip…
Other birds
* Blaxland Birds List
Elsewhere about this bird:
* Australian Museum
* Calls
Linda has drawn one of our favourites, the Galah. We don’t see many around Blaxland, presumably because of the dominance of Sulphur Crested Cockatoos…
Our dirty little secret is that, we had one at home as a companion when we lived in the City . Mind you, their voice is pretty loud when it competes with the TV … Anyway, we accidentally left the front door open and it deserted us! When we moved to Blaxland, we learnt to enjoy birds in the bush, except for the cockatiel which turned up one day…
* Blaxland Birds List
More about this bird:
* Wikipedia
