Bird count in my yard

[den]

These birds are in my yard now, hopping in the garden.



Black faced cuckoo-shrike

Pied Butcher Bird

Willie Wagtail. When they get angry they flare their eyebrows. Beware the Flared Eyebrows!

corvus coronides. One has been nicknamed T-Bone becuase he nicks Scruffy's bones. The dog goes berserk when this happens.

Blue Wren

Eastern Rosella

a small family of peewees/mudlarks I dont have photos for

And of course various rats with wings (sparrows, blackbirds etc.)
All images stolen from various sites.


Maybe I should get a webcam. Den's Backyard Cam.

Comments

[ngarewyrd.livejournal.com]

Those crows are very cheeky..

I'd watch Den's Backyard Cam!

[elynne.livejournal.com]

Well, I would. :) I fear the eyebrows - I have attack eyebrows too, I know how dangerous they can be. You have a much greater variety of birds in your backyard than I do, even down here in rural California. All I've seen are crows, little brown rat-birds (sparrows and wrens and bleah starlings), robins (which are freaking everywhere), seagulls (ditto)... let's see... there's some pretty little yellow birds that have very nice songs, but I don't know what they are; turkey vultures, impressively big and ugly; occasionaly hawks, mostly redtail but also a few smaller, less easily identifiable varieties... and we once had a white heron dipping for tadpoles in the backyard pond. No night herons yet, though. Oh, and there's sandpipers down by the ocean. That's about it for Humboldt.

In Seattle, we get bald eagle flyovers occasionally. Beautiful.

I'd better set up Den's Backyard Cam!

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

these are the Winter residents. I didn't mention the magpies, but they are there today.

We don't get *many* seagulls here, what with being 400km from the ocean and everything. 8) In the spring a pair of nankeen kestrals will nest in the gumtree across the road, and a pair of kites will nest in the park nearby. I'll see wattle birds, honey eaters, yellow robins, red-rumped parrots, king parrots, currawongs, apostle birds, choughs, kookaburras, supurb kingfishers (metalic blue) and red-backed kingsfishers (metallic green with a red back)

And, of course, the bloody PESTS. Sparrows, black birds, and starlings bloody starlings.

Birdies

[weyrdbird.livejournal.com]

We've got lots of "nuisance birds" 'round here. Sparrows are the big culprits, with Starlings and the odd Grackle or three. We also have the "Hitchcock Flock" of crows/ravens, Herring Gulls, Redtail Hawks, several types of falcon, cardinals, robins, bluejays, and other small fry. LOUD chickadees and Catbirds that like to scream their heads off! I live on the west side of Madison Wisconsin, and the abundance of birds, particularly in roadside thouroughfare hedgerows hereabout is astonishing. We've also got Golden Mantled Ground Squirrels (FAT), and rabbits o'plenty.

Now my parents, who are retired, are in their summer residence in Estes Park, Colorado. They had the mother mountain lion and her cubs out in the yard late the other night. They heard it, didn't see it. A woman called animal control to have them remove the rotting elk carcass she killed on arrival to feed the family with. When they said "why didn't you tell us, we'd have shot it!" The woman replied "That's why I waited until she was done with it, I didn't *want* you to shoot her, she wasn't a threat to anyone!" Right ON!! She's clearly following the elk summer migration for a food source- as long as she doesn't become a "garbage" cat she'll be ok:).

Re: Birdies

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

Your mum sounds very cool. 8) My mum won't tell me when there's blackbirds nesting in her yard. "But they're nice! And you'll kill them." But they're PESTS! She likes Aussie birds more, which is nice.

We don't get a lot of large animals in town; the occasional kangaroo or swamp wallaby follow the rail line into tows, and out again.

Australia doesn't have large animals that will kill you and eat you. We have tiny animals that will kill you and run away.

killers

[weyrdbird.livejournal.com]

Of course:), we're just a big bunch of two-legged interloping oafs that persist in invading their space. We're lucky the endangered species haven't mastered the art of global politics, or we'd be in deep shit by now.