The Silky Oak managed a good showing of flower, but with the long dry it was short-lived. Despite all this arid weather there was one good splash mid-month, enough to give the Lorikeets a dip, so here's my Soggy Lori reveiew...
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| Keeping warm together |
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| Dozing in damp warmth |
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| Drying a little now |
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| That's much better |
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| All fluffed up |
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| Yeah! we're better now |
A trip up north added some variety during the earlier part of the month...
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| Forest Kingfisher |
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| Sacred Kingfishers |
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| A whole family |
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| Darter |
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| Striated Heron and Common Sandpiper |
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| Brolga's in flight |
And on to the monthly sightings....
Regulars (Seen daily)
Australian Magpie
Bar-shouldered Dove
Brown Honeyeater
Bush Turkey
Common Bronzewing
Double-barred Finch
Galah
Laughing Kookaburra
Magpie Lark
Noisy Friarbird
Noisy Miner
Olive-backed Oriole
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| Olive-backed Oriole |
Pacific Black Duck
Peaceful Dove
Pied Butcherbird
Pied Currawong
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| Pied Currawong |
Plumed Whistling Duck
Rainbow Lorikeet
Scarlet Honeyeater
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| Scarlet Honeyeater trills |
Spangled Drongo
Silvereye
Sulphur Crested Cockatoo
Torresian Crow
White-throated Gerygone
White-throated Honeyeater
Yellow Faced Honeyeater
Common (Seen Weekly)
Common Mynah
Forest Kingfisher
Grey Shrike-Thrush
King Parrot
Magpie Lark
Yellow-rumped Thornbill
Black-faced Cuckoo Shrike
Brown Goshawk
Channel-billed Cuckoo
Dollarbird
Eastern Boobook
Figbird
Little Corella
Little Friarbird
Pale-headed Rosella
Pheasant Coucal
Striated Pardalote
Welcome Swallow
White-throated Treecreeper
Rare (Seen once)
Mistletoebird
Scaly Breasted Lorikeet
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| Scaly-breasted Lorikeet |
Wedge-tailed Eagle
White-bellied Cuckoo Shrike
White-headed Pigeon
Wood Duck
Which is 51-species. And your Aussie critter of the month is:
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| Long-nosed Potoroo from the Albany Advertiser |
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