October is supposed to be in the dry season, but this year it was warm and wet. I'l extremely grateful for the wet as it filled our tanks and gave the gardens a well needed drink. It also provided plenty of food for our chicks. We've had a good season on that front with fifty hatching's this year, including three Splash coloured chicks being carefully nurtured by Bluebell, our youngest Blue Faverolle.
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| Bluebell with her newly hatched chicks |
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| Portrait of a Lorikeet |
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| Are we not talking? |
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| That warm wet damp sleepy time. |
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| Where's my hanky, I'm sure I had it. |
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| "Did you hear..." |
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| Love is a gentle grooming. |
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| "Oi, are they talking about us? ". |
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| "Children! |
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| ""Snifff! |
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| "Please Mum" |
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| "Pretty please"... |
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| Äw! forget it, she's not playing" |
Regulars (Seen daily)
Australian Magpie
Bar-shouldered Dove
Brown Honeyeater
Common Bronzewing
Dollarbird
Double-barred Finch
Galah
Laughing Kookaburra
King Parrot
Little Corella
Little Friarbird
Noisy Friarbird
Noisy Miner
Olive-backed Oriole
Pacific Black Duck
Peaceful Dove
Pied Butcherbird
Pied Currawong
Plumed Whistling Duck
Rainbow Lorikeet
Silvereye
Spangled Drongo
Striated Pardalote
Sulphur Crested Cockatoo
Torresian Crow
Welcome Swallow
White-throated Gerygone
Common (Seen Weekly)
Black-faced Cuckoo Shrike
Common Koel
Forest Kingfisher
Grey Butcherbird
Grey Shrike-Thrush
Leaden Flycatcher
Magpie Lark
Scarlet Honeyeater
White-throated Honeyeater
White-throated Treecreeper
Yellow Faced Honeyeater
Uncommon (Seen occasionally)
Brown Goshawk
Collared Sparrowhawk
Common Mynah
Eastern Spinebill
Eastern Yellow Robin
Figbird
Lewins Honeyeater
Little Pied Cormorant
Pale-headed Rosella
Pheasant Coucal
Rainbow Bee Eater
White-faced Heron
Wood Duck
Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo
Yellow-rumped Thornbill
Rare (Seen once)
Australian Ibis
Brown Cuckoo Dove
Brown Thornbill
Brush Turkey
Eastern Boobook
Sacred Kingfisher
Scaly breasted Lorikeet
Square-tailed Kite
White-bellied Cuckoo Shrike
White-headed Pigeon
Willie Wagtail
64-species, which is about all for now.
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