July - winter is upon us

 

I should have written more but my life is dominated by work at the moment, and fights with the insurance company over the vets fees after our beloved Chudleigh died last month.

Lunch at the bird feeder!

 Despite my hectic life managing through the Covid crisis I have had a little time for birding but what I have noticed in particular is the absence rather than the presence of a bird.  Normally in winter we see regular flocks of Silvereyes that have migrated up from Tasmania or southern Australia, but this year not one. These birds are so common I rarely bother to photograph them, but this year none!  I can only assume that the major bush fires in NSW earlier this year has interrupted their migration?

Regulars

Australian Magpie
Bar-shouldered Dove
Brown Honeyeater
Buff-rumped Thornbill

Bush Turkey
Common Bronzewing

Eastern Spinebill

Forest Kingfisher
Galah

Grey Fantail
King Parrot
Laughing Kookaburra
Little Corella
Noisy Friarbird
Noisy Miner
Pacific Black Duck
Peaceful Dove
Pied Butcherbird
Pied Currawong
Plumed Whistling Duck
Rainbow Lorikeet

Rose Robin

Scarlet Honeyeater

Striated Pardalote

Sulphur Crested Cockatoo

Torresian Crow
White-throated Gerygone
White-throated Honeyeater
Yellow-faced Honeyeater

Common (Seen Weekly)

Brown Goshawk
Brown Thornbill

Eastern Yellow Robin

Golden Whistler

Grey Shrike-Thrush

Spangled Drongo
Welcome Swallow

Willie Wagtail

Uncommon (Seen occasionally)

Black-faced Cuckoo Shrike
Eastern Boobook

Figbird

Leaden Flycatcher

Little Friarbird

Little Wattlebird
Magpie Lark
Masked Plover
Pale-headed Rosella
Rainbow Bee Eater

Rufous Whistler

White-throated Treecreeper

Rare (Seen once)

Australian Ibis
Glossy Black Cockatoo

White-bellied Sea Eagle

Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo