A trip to the real Australian outback and featuring the Fairy Martin (1 Viewer)

[greykangaroo]

This is the pictorial trip with photos I took myself. Some are of mud nesting receptacles in caves but I didn't take any nest photos nor is there copyright on the photos which I gladly share with the forum.
I wanted to get this post done for the interest of members before I go.

Here is the Fairy Martin


Here are the mud structures they build. These little birds know about avian paedophiles and you can’t see their chicks.


The country side and caves




It is ideal to be careful in those caves and under ledges as the Death Adders and King Browns have gotten there first.

I came across this lonely prospector's grave and house. "Prospector and dreamer", it said. These old timers spend their whole lives out there hoping to strike it. And never do.


The full paraphernalia of human existence is still evident in it’s rough form.




It didn't feel comfortable in the old house. It felt like I shouldn't be in there.

Very much like I feel about being part of this forum.
I think there are some normal people here, particularly the Americans and a couple of Brits, but a forum that deletes posts because they contain a photo of a birds nests is alarming.
In my garden at the moment it is high Spring here in Perth, I have several species nesting. They are all being fed by me. The three types of honeyeaters, the two types of Wattlebirds, the two breeds of doves, the Willy wagtail, the galahs and the magpies. All have nests and I am not harming any of them.

 

[greykangaroo]

Since I wrote this up the New Holland Honeyeaters have successfully reared their three young that were nesting in one of our hanging baskets.

Unfortunately, because of forum rules, I couldn't take a photo for the forum members of the nest and chicks although I looked at them every day when I put some honey out in a jar lid for them to eat.