November 30th, 2008 at 12:43 pm (Birds, General, Home, Photography)
Yesterday another ‘lifer’ was added to my birdlist. A juvenile Red-capped Robin (Petroica goodenovii) visited us, sitting just about a metre outside the back garden fence. Again not a rare bird but one to add to my list. Was a cute little thing too.
November 9th, 2008 at 1:17 pm (Birds, General, Home)
For the last couple of days a Common (feral) Pigeon (Columbia livia) has been coming to our garden. Not too much unusual about that. Trouble is that he is on his own and feeling, how can I say this – somewhat frisky. With no one of his own kind around, he has been bowing and cooing to the Crested Pigeons (Ocyphaps lophotes) and the Common Bronzewings (Phaps chalcoptera). Of course neither of these other two species will have anything to do with him.
But he still keeps on trying…
November 3rd, 2008 at 9:07 am (Birds, General, Photography)
Back in February 2006, I started a group on Flickr called ‘Australian Birds‘. There was no group already running that seemed to cater for this subject. I didn’t really expect much from the group at that time.
Now, this weekend, the group has 1,000 members and nearly 19,000 photos. I am very happy the way things have gone. Only very occasionally have I had to delete a photo, and that was only because someone had put one on by mistake. I did have to limit the number of photos per day a little while ago to stop members flooding the group with dozens of pics.
