Pardalote Holt: April 2019 and it finally dawns on me...

Tuesday, July 16, 2019

April 2019 and it finally dawns on me...

Every year I expect it to rain in Jan/Feb and every year it rains in April and if it weren't for being able to check back to previous posts I would probably be continuing to expect rain earlier, As you can gather, April arrived and with it quite a lot of rain. Great for plants, less great for photographing birds, but I did what I could.

The chooks are doing well, with this years generation rapidly approaching point of lay (and sale). Here's some of my star pullets.

Gigi

Daphne

Ebony

Gigi again

Daphne again

Daphne and Penny Hen

Despite considerable interest from the Lace Monitors...

A young Lace Monitor

Yeah...I'm watching you.

Just keep away from my chooks!

and onto the natives....

Regulars (Seen daily)

Australian Magpie
Bar-shouldered Dove
Brown Honeyeater
Bush Turkey
Common Bronzewing

Common Bronzewing

Double-barred Finch
Galah
Laughing Kookaburra
Lewins Honeyeater
Little Corella
Magpie Lark
Noisy Friarbird
Noisy Miner
Pacific Black Duck
Peaceful Dove
Pied Butcherbird
Pied Currawong
Plumed Whistling Duck

Plumed Whistling Ducks

Rainbow BeeEater

Rainbow Bee Eaters

More Bee Eaters

Rainbow Lorikeet
Leaden Flycatcher
Sulphur Crested Cockatoo

Sulphur Crested Cockatoo

Torresian Crow

Torresian Crow looking a little chilly

White-throated Gerygone

White-throated Honeyeater

Common (Seen Weekly)

Black-faced Cuckoo Shrike
Eastern Whipbird
Forest Kingfisher
Grey Shrike-Thrush
King Parrot
Yellow Faced Honeyeater

Uncommon (Seen occasionally)

Eastern Yellow Robin
Golden Whistler