#wildoz Timeline

11d

Checked in on the Tiny Frogs this morning (there were 17 of them). Found these three in a photographable location before getting in to a conversation with a fellow frog appreciator.

#EasternDwarfTreeFrog #WildOz #AustralianWildlife #frog

Two tiny green frogs on a vertical reed. One is partially hidden behind another reed leaf, while the right hand one, a bit lower down is out in the open.

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Side view of a tiny green frog on a reed leaf. Legs tucked under "loaf style", head up.

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1y

We did the Koondaii Loop track this morning and encountered a few birds along the way. Here are four of them.

A Grey Goshawk, checking us out.
A Brown Cuckoo-Dove.
A Rufous Fantail.
And a Bassian Thrush.

#Bird #AustralianWildlife #WildOz #GreyGoshawk #BrownCuckooDove #RufousFantail #BassianThrush

A Grey Goshawk perched on a branch, body facing left, head turned slightly to get a better look at us. The back half of the bird is obscured by foliage.

It has a Light grey head and underside, dark grey wings, orange legs and feet and nose, with black beak. Penetrating black eyes.

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1y

A sample of the ten tiny treefrogs I found this morning.

Eastern Dwarf Tree Frogs, mostly perched on guinea grass.

#frog #EasternDwarfTreeFrog #WildOz #AustralianWildlife

A chonky tiny frog huddled on a grass stalk. It has its legs tucked up under it, with only one paw out.

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1y

My morning was improved one-hundred-fold by the discovery of this tiny Eastern Dwarf Treefrog on a citrus fruit.

It was no bigger than a beetle, and almost the same colour as the unripe fruit.

#AustralianWildlife #WildOz #frog #EasternDwarfTreefrog

A tiny green frog with black stripe through its eye and around the nose, huddled on a green citrus fruit.
It is almost the same colour as the fruit and is presumably hoping not to be noticed.

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A crop of the previous image to better show the tiny frog.

It is green on top, with a black stripe running along its side, through the eye and down to the nose. The legs are tucked up under it, but some of the gold colouring on the legs is visible.

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1y

Hello, from this little Grey Fantail.

#bird #AustralianWildlife #WildOz #GreyFantail

A small grey bird with a buff belly, white brow and chin and long tail (currently not fanned) on a branch

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1y

Turns out that wedged between the huge Westgate bridge and an industrial estate a few kilometres from the city centre in melbourne lies a surviving patch of bush full of tiny, bouncing Superb Fairywrens. There’s something moving about seeing that surrounded by human ugliness, life and beauty finds a way

#melbourne #birds #birding #wildoz

A tiny and round white and grey Superb Fairywren bird with a bright blue tail standing on grass

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A tiny and round white and grey Superb Fairywren bird with a bright blue tail

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A superb Fairywren bird. They are a small and round with light blue, dark blue, grey and white

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72d

Sorry, I may flood your feed with Yellow-Tailed Black Cockatoo. Unfollow if you get overwhelmed lol

#BirdPhotography #BirdsofAustralia #BirdsofFediverse #FediBirds #Photography #Wildlife #BirdsofPixelfed #BirdsofMastodon #AustralianBirds #BirdWatching #Fedibird #birdbot #Birding #darktable #wildoz

A Yellow-tailed black cockatoo in mid-flight with wings spread, holding a pine cone in its beak against a blurred background of bare tree branches.

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337d

I was woken this morning by two kookaburras making a racket down the side passage. Turns out their beaks were stuck together (!)

While they scrambled and fought, trying to pull apart, a currawong sat on the fence commentating the life-or-death struggle.

After my sleepy brain had made sense of what the bloody hell was going on, I fetched some gloves and gently prised them apart. They both flew off in high dudgeon.

What a surreal start to the day.

#kookaburra #KookaburrasOfMastodon #AustralianAnimals #justAustralianthings #birding #birds #wildoz #AussieBirdCount

Two kookaburras on the ground, with their beaks interlocked

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207d

expert mimic [australian magpie, ssp. G. t. dorsalis] (details)

this magpie mimics a short-billed black cockatoo, a red wattlebird, a silver gull, and more! can you identify any other bird calls in his repertoire?

st mary’s cathedral, western australia.

#wildoz #birds #birdphotography #photography

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5d

A photo Aussies can hear.

#BirdPhotography #BirdsofAustralia #BirdsofFediverse #FediBirds #Photography #Wildlife #BirdsofMastodon #AustralianBirds #BirdWatching #Fedibird #birdbot #Birding #darktable #wildoz #melbourne #oz #australia #birds

A male gang-gang in mid-flight with wings fully spread, showing scalloped feather pattern and a red patch on its head, against a blurred green foliage background.

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13d

Gang-gang ready to rule the world

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A juvenile male gang-gang cockatoo landing on a branch, wings spread wide beside clusters of small yellow berries against a pale sky.

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13d

Gang-gang to rule the world

#BirdPhotography #BirdsofAustralia #BirdsofFediverse #FediBirds #Photography #Wildlife #BirdsofMastodon #AustralianBirds #BirdWatching #Fedibird #birdbot #Birding #darktable #wildoz #melbourne #oz #australia #birds

A juvenile male ganggang cockatoo reaching toward clusters of small yellow berries against a pale background.

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12d

Bloody Thirsty

#BirdPhotography #BirdsofAustralia #BirdsofFediverse #FediBirds #Photography #Wildlife #BirdsofMastodon #AustralianBirds #BirdWatching #Fedibird #birdbot #Birding #darktable #wildoz #melbourne #oz #australia #birds

A female gang-gang perched on a stainless-steel drinking fountain, wings spread while drinking from the spout

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9d

Look, up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a Glossy Black Cockatoo, thats endangered because we took all of our Allocasuarinas to line pockets of the rich.

#BirdPhotography #BirdsofAustralia #BirdsofFediverse #FediBirds #Photography #Wildlife #BirdsofMastodon #AustralianBirds #BirdWatching #Fedibird #birdbot #Birding #darktable #wildoz #melbourne #oz #australia #birds

A male glossy black cockatoo in flight with wings spread wide and a fanned tail showing bright orange panels, against a blurred green background.

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27d

This female Spotted Pardalote posed there for a whole minute.

#BirdPhotography #BirdsofAustralia #BirdsofFediverse #FediBirds #Photography #Wildlife #BirdsofMastodon #AustralianBirds #BirdWatching #Fedibird #birdbot #Birding #darktable #wildoz #melbourne #oz #australia #birds

A female Spotted Pardalote perched on the side of a bare vertical branch, facing right against a blurred green background.

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31d

A small sample of the "too many frogs to count" I found when leaving the office this afternoon.

The usual reeds were covered in tiny frogs. Well in excess of 30.

#TinyFrog #EasternDwarfTreeFrog #AustralianWildlife #WildOz #frog

Two tiny frogs on a reed leaf. The leaf curves like a long bridge. On either side of the apex sits a frog, and they're on opposite sides of the central rib, like they're in opposing lanes.

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22d

The cutest brown thornbill <3 #BirdPhotography #BirdsofAustralia #BirdsofFediverse #FediBirds #Photography #Wildlife #BirdsofMastodon #AustralianBirds #BirdWatching #Fedibird #birdbot #Birding #darktable #wildoz #melbourne #oz #australia #birds

A Brown Thornbill perched on the tip of a leafy green branch with one wing raised, set against a softly blurred green background.

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17d

<3

#BirdPhotography #BirdsofAustralia #BirdsofFediverse #FediBirds #Photography #Wildlife #BirdsofMastodon #AustralianBirds #BirdWatching #Fedibird #birdbot #Birding #darktable #wildoz #melbourne #oz #australia #birds

A female gang-gang drinking from a shallow puddle, body low to the water with its reflection visible

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17d

Fly, girl, fly!!!

#BirdPhotography #BirdsofAustralia #BirdsofFediverse #FediBirds #Photography #Wildlife #BirdsofMastodon #AustralianBirds #BirdWatching #Fedibird #birdbot #Birding #darktable #wildoz #melbourne #oz #australia #birds

Female gang-gang in mid-flight with wings spread, with a cluster of small berries on its mouth.

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16d

Mirror, mirror on the floor, who is the fairiest of them all

#BirdPhotography #BirdsofAustralia #BirdsofFediverse #FediBirds #Photography #Wildlife #BirdsofMastodon #AustralianBirds #BirdWatching #Fedibird #birdbot #Birding #darktable #wildoz #melbourne #oz #australia #birds

Close-up side view of a juvenile male gang gang with a red crest and red facial markings drinking from shallow water, with ripples and reflections in the foreground and a blurred background.

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16d

Hello Mr Gang-gang!

#BirdPhotography #BirdsofAustralia #BirdsofFediverse #FediBirds #Photography #Wildlife #BirdsofMastodon #AustralianBirds #BirdWatching #Fedibird #birdbot #Birding #darktable #wildoz #melbourne #oz #australia #birds

A juvenile male gang-gang cockatoo with a red crest hanging sideways from thin eucalyptus branches, facing right, against a blurred green background.

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A close-up version of a juvenile male gang-gang cockatoo with a red crest hanging sideways from thin eucalyptus branches, facing right, against a blurred green background.

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13d

Red-backed Fairywrens at Oxley Creek Common yesterday morning.

Male calling (black with orange wings), female doing a flyby (brown).

#bird #AustralianWildlife #WildOz #RedBackedFairywren

A small black fairy wren with bright orange wings perches on some dried grass, tail vertical, singing.

On the right, flying behind some dried grass towards the male, is a brown female fairy wren.

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12d

A Plumed Egret (award for most obvious bird name) this morning before work.

This one is in full breeding plumage and colouring (green face rather than yellow, dark orange beak, rather than yellow).

#PlumedEgret #Bird #AustralianWildlife #WildOz

An intermediate sized egret with fluffy plumed and green facial features standing on a rock in a lake (left of frame) looking right. On the right, and further in the background are two Dusky Moorhens grooming.

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A closeup of the Plumed Egret on a rock. It has one leg up, stepping forward. It's fancy lace-like plumes are all ruffled out as it has a bit of a fluff up.

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11d

These three Kookaburras landed in this tree and had a bit of a chuckle, but the local Noisy Miners took offence to their presence and began swooping them.

#bird #AustralianWildlife #WildOz #laughingKookaburra #NoisyMiner