Birds, brunch, crevices......and ambient KISS

[Hawk Dork]

That's a tough quiz.....I don't know my Owls from my Albatrosses'......Apparently.

I thought I was a better twitcher too
I got a bit over half from memory

I remember seeing a painting of a Cockatoo in the Louvre and it pre-dated Cooks discovery of Australia,it got me excited about the rewritting of Australian history
just found out from that quizz
Turns out the Cocky is in the Dutch East Indies and has a Malaysian name.

 

[Procrastinator35]

I thought I was a better twitcher too
I got a bit over half from memory

I remember seeing a painting of a Cockatoo in the Louvre and it pre-dated Cooks discovery of Australia,it got me excited about the rewritting of Australian history
just found out from that quizz
Turns out the Cocky is in the Dutch East Indies and has a Malaysian name.

I started off like a House on Fire with Howards Duck & the Cassowary …..But it was all down hill from there.....Went down in flames quicker than a Jap Zero.

 

[Hawk Dork]

had a flyover by a grey goshawk today
almost pure white underneath slightly dark wing tips light grey on top
Stunning,,,, put the brakes on a few times and just stood still in the air

 

[Elton Johns Wig]

Handsome devil

 

[Procrastinator35]

Had a visit on my lunch break from one of these fellas today (The King Parrot)....They've full of character.

 

[Elton Johns Wig]

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Had a visit on my lunch break from one of these fellas today (The King Parrot)....They've full of character.

It lacks the brunchly presence of myself in an earlier photograph, but boy, that's one nice crisp, clean pic.

 

[Hoos]

It lacks the brunchly presence of myself in an earlier photograph, but boy, that's one nice crisp, clean pic.

Nothing can compete with a bruncher.

 

[Hawk Dork]

White-winged trillers, which are rarely sighted in southern Victoria, are also turning up in their hundreds around Melbourne’s suburbs.
Australian Birdlife editor Sean Dooley said it was believed the unusual sightings were the result of worsening drought destroying native habitats in Australia’s north and centre.


“It's a really good indicator of the severity of the drought when you're seeing these numbers of birds that are pretty well adapted to arid-zone living,” he said.
“When they fall south, you know that things are really serious.”

Rarely seen birds flock to Victorian oases as drought's grip tightens

An "unprecedented" influx of birds, including the spectacular crimson chat, have birdwatchers flocking to Victoria’s relatively bountiful regions for a chance to spot them in the wild.

www.theage.com.au

 

[Procrastinator35]

White-winged trillers, which are rarely sighted in southern Victoria, are also turning up in their hundreds around Melbourne’s suburbs.
Australian Birdlife editor Sean Dooley said it was believed the unusual sightings were the result of worsening drought destroying native habitats in Australia’s north and centre.


“It's a really good indicator of the severity of the drought when you're seeing these numbers of birds that are pretty well adapted to arid-zone living,” he said.
“When they fall south, you know that things are really serious.”

Rarely seen birds flock to Victorian oases as drought's grip tightens

An "unprecedented" influx of birds, including the spectacular crimson chat, have birdwatchers flocking to Victoria’s relatively bountiful regions for a chance to spot them in the wild.

www.theage.com.au

From that same article, here's another rarely seen species in suburbia that's been sighted also.

The Pied Honeyeater:

 

[Procrastinator35]

Interestingly, the Crimson Chat comes in as one of the Top 10 smallest birds in the world …..I thought it looked tiny by that picture.



Comes in at around 10-12cm's long & is endemic to Oz.

 

[Procrastinator35]

Here's the Top 10 largest birds in the world currently living....None of the Top 5 can fly.

1. Ostrich
2. Cassowary
3. Emu
4. Emperor Penguin
5. Rhea
6. Bustard
7. Condor
8. Pelican
9. Swan
10. Albatross

 

[Hawk Dork]

Filled the water bowl early this morning and we got our first custardhead to have a drink

 

[Hawk Dork]

Massive Mildura dust storm leaves Victorian town 'unliveable' amid 40C heat

“What is really eerie is that everything goes quiet,” she said.
“There’s no birdsong, there’s nothing.
It’s really bizarre and you know you are in the worst of it when the birds stop singing.


“I have been here for 10 years and have never experienced anything like this.
We used to have a dust storm a year, this is now a weekly basis.

 

[Procrastinator35]

Massive Mildura dust storm leaves Victorian town 'unliveable' amid 40C heat

“What is really eerie is that everything goes quiet,” she said.
“There’s no birdsong, there’s nothing.
It’s really bizarre and you know you are in the worst of it when the birds stop singing.


“I have been here for 10 years and have never experienced anything like this.
We used to have a dust storm a year, this is now a weekly basis.

Minds one of the Melbourne dust Storm that blew in from the Mallee in 1983....Just a couple of months prior to the Ash Wednesday bush-fires.

 

[Hawk Dork]

View attachment 782777Minds one of the Melbourne dust Storm that blew in from the Mallee in 1983....Just a couple of months prior to the Ash Wednesday bush-fires.

Horrible day that
Thats a lot of topsoil down the drain

 

[Procrastinator35]

Filled the water bowl early this morning and we got our first custardhead to have a drink

I'll see your Custardhead & raise you a Pudd'nHead.

 

[Hawk Dork]

I'll see your Custardhead & raise you a Pudd'nHead.
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keeping with the brunch theme

 

[Procrastinator35]

keeping with the brunch theme

And the festive season….Nothing beats a good pudding with some warm custard on top.

 

[Hoos]

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Massive Mildura dust storm leaves Victorian town 'unliveable' amid 40C heat

“What is really eerie is that everything goes quiet,” she said.
“There’s no birdsong, there’s nothing.
It’s really bizarre and you know you are in the worst of it when the birds stop singing.


“I have been here for 10 years and have never experienced anything like this.
We used to have a dust storm a year, this is now a weekly basis.

I remember looking out of the portable classroom window and seeing nothing but red.

 

[Procrastinator35]

I remember looking out of the portable classroom window and seeing nothing but red.

 

[Hoos]

I didn't mind some of their songs.

Not that one, obviously.

 

[Procrastinator35]

I didn't mind some of their songs.

Not that one, obviously.

This one was their break-through hit in Oz....Find it funny that they're named after a hair condition.

 

[Hoos]

This one was their break-through hit in Oz....Find it funny that they're named after a hair condition.

The origins of many famous band names always interests me.

 

[por_please_ya]

Lol I can't keep up with this thread. The last time I visited was page 46!!!

I keep thinking about all the animals in those bushfires most of our birds can fly, yes, but I'm sure not all made it out.

 

[Procrastinator35]

The origins of many famous band names always interests me.

By the time 1983 rolled around, they lost, or ditched, their zany image.....Perhaps due to a process of maturation, or that they were now established & secure enough to allow the substance of the music & it's message to speak for themselves.

This one, off their album 'Conflicting Emotions', demonstrates that new-found maturity precisely.