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

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.