Showing posts with label Pigeon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pigeon. Show all posts

Friday, October 26, 2012

Westleigh birds




















A stroll around Westleigh with my camera the other afternoon yielded an extraordinary count of bird species.It just goes to show what you can do when you keep your eyes open. I've always been a little bit of a twitcher, but that day I saw two or three types I've never consciously come across before - and successfully photographed them, what's more. As well as most of the old favourites.

My list: 
Noisy Miner, Sulphur-crested Cockatoo, Masked Lapwing, Crested Pigeon, Variegated Fairy-wren, Australian Raven, Galah, Rainbow Lorikeet, Red-browed Firetail, Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike, Laughing Kookaburra, Lewin's Honeyeater, Brown Thornbill, Golden Whistler (male & female), Crimson Rosella, King Parrot, Samphire Thornbill (probably not - it'd be 1000km out of its range), and another unknown small brown bird.

Let me know if I've misidentified any, and do help me out with my small browns - there are an awful lot of these, and they're usually shy and flighty.

N