Hi all, I'm new to the forum, new to the Gold Coast (Qld, Australia), new to photography, and know nothing about birds except what I can google & learn on this forum!
So bear with me... I'm not sure about the rules here & I can't tell you the exact order so far... but I can perhaps add my list of what I've heard/seen & photographed in the last few weeks from my garden.
The photos are far from professional & sometimes I only get one shot. But I try. I've attached a couple to share my excitement. I spotted a wedge-tailed eagle in the last couple of days AND had my camera handy! I also had a couple of yellow-tailed black cockatoos land in a distant tree on a rainy day... so the photo leaves something to be desired, but certain evidence! Also attached, some fairywrens.
Here is my garden list:
1. Eastern Whipbird (heard frequently but not sighted... maybe one day I'll have a sighting but I'm not holding my breath)
the following are sightings (with no photo)
2. Crested Pigeon
3. Galah
4. Noisy Miner
5. Australian Brush Turkey
the following come complete with photos, but not necessarily good ones!
6. Spangled Drongo
7. Australian King-parrot
8. Australian Magpie
9. Australian Wood Duck
10. Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike
11. Brown Honeyeater
12. Grey Fantail
13. Laughing Kookaburra
14. Lewin's Honeyeater
15. Magpie-lark
16. Masked Lapwing
17. Noisy Friarbird
18. Pale-headed Rosella
19. Pheasant Coucal
20. Pied Butcherbird
21. Pied Currawong
22. Rainbow Lorikeet
23. Red-backed Fairy-wren
24. Red-browed Finch
25. Silvereye
26. Striated Pardalote
27. Variegated Fairy-wren
28. Willie Wagtail
29. Wedge-tailed Eagle
30. Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo
31. Sulphur-crested White Cockatoo
32. Eastern Rosella
33. Eastern Spinebill
34. Yellow-faced Honeyeater
35. Blue-faced Honeyeater
36. Scarlet Honeyeater
37. Little Wattlebird
38. Golden Whistler
39. Rose Robin
40. Rufous Whistler
41. Spangled Drongo
42. Common Koel
43. Brown Cuckoo-dove
44. Fan Tailed Cuckoo
45. Grey Shrike Thrush
46. Satin Bowerbird
I also get a hybrid which is very pretty... a cross between pale headed rosella & eastern rosella. But I haven't counted that one!
Hope I've got them all right. If anyone wants to check my IDs, feel free to request photos as I'd love to have backup checks
Kerrie