Arid August

August has been a busy month with a couple of trips up to the Cape and lots to keep me occupied at work. My work on the Cape has increased which is good as I get to see some different birds but bad because of the amount of time that I'm away from home, but hey ho!  you have to make a daily crust somehow.

At  home its very, very dry and we're hoping for rain.

Australian Hobby

Little Bronze Cuckoo

Yellow Honeyeater

Pale-headed Rosella (Northern)

Rainbow Bee-Eaters

Satin Flycatcher

Meanwhile back at the Holt the butterflies have started to appear, in this case the rare Richmond's Birdwing.

In this case a female, which is larger and has black and white wings.

and here's the smaller male

But back to the birds...

Regulars (Seen daily)

Australian Magpie
Bar-shouldered Dove
Brown Honeyeater
Bush Turkey
Common Bronzewing
Double-barred Finch
Eastern Spinebill

Eastern Spinebill

Galah
Grey Fantail
Laughing Kookaburra
Lewins Honeyeater
Little Corella
Magpie Lark
Noisy Friarbird
Noisy Miner
Pacific Black Duck
Peaceful Dove

Peaceful Dove

Pied Butcherbird stealing kibbles

Pied Butcherbird

Pied Currawong

Pied Currawong


Plumed Whistling Duck
Rainbow Bee-Eater

Rainbow Bee-Eater

Rainbow Lorikeet
Leaden Flycatcher
Scarlet Honeyeater
Silvereye
Striated Pardalote

Striated Pardalote looking for Lerps

Sulphur Crested Cockatoo
Torresian Crow
Welcome Swallow
White-throated Gerygone
White-throated Honeyeater
Yellow Faced Honeyeater

Common (Seen Weekly)

Black-faced Cuckoo Shrike
Eastern Whipbird
Forest Kingfisher
Grey Shrike-Thrush
King Parrot
Little Pied Cormorant
Rose Robin

Female Rose Robin

Varied Sitella
Yellow-rumped Thornbill

Uncommon (Seen occasionally)

Brown Goshawk
Eastern Yellow Robin
Golden Whistler
Grey Butcherbird
Leaden Flycatcher
Little Friarbird
Red-browed Finch
Restless Flycatcher
Spotted Pardalote
Willy Wagtail
White-throated Treecreeper
Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo

Rare (Seen once)

Brown Thornbill
Little Friarbird
Pale-headed Rosella
Scaly Breasted Lorikeet
Spectacled Monarch

Spectacled Monarch

Top Knot Pigeon
Wedge-tailed Eagle
Yellow Thornbill

Which is 62-species.  And your Aussie critter of the month is:



A Tree Kangaroo courtesy of the Currumbin Sanctuary