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bunya mountains
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Matching colours
I'd been wanting a picture of the jacaranda in flower, but as it's not a native Australian plant I didn't take one. However, when you see a load together in bloom, it's really such a lovely sight. Here a Blue-faced Honeyeater is feeding on the nectar of a tree... at last I had an excuse to...- delia todd
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- Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
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Diverse
Our next stop was a parking area for the J S Fishers Lookout. And what impressive views to be had from there too. Wandering about and looking down into the bushes and trees I spotted this young Variegated Fairywren. He was rather kinder than the adults who just never seemed to stop moving. He...- delia todd
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- Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
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Extremely shy
We moved on from the campsite stopping next at the Paradise Parking area. We all just wandered about round the car park and into the nearer parts of the forest. I tried to get a picture of a little scrubwren, but he went under a car and I couldn't get at him. So I went down to the toilet block...- delia todd
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- Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
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All dressed and ready
This Australian Brushturkey was in his full breeding dress, so all he needs now is some lady friends. I found him wandering around the camp site; they don't seem to care about the presence of people at all.- delia todd
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A ray of sunshine in the dim forest
We left the owl in peace and started on our return back to the camp site. We only saw one other bird in this area and that was this Eastern Yellow Robin - so easily spotted in the dim light, especially as he came out into the open LOL- delia todd
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- Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
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Hiding in plain site
Bit of a tale to this one. We followed a path deeper into the rainforest which took us to a big hollow tree. There were steps leading up into it. This is a well known regular roosting spot for a Sooty Owl. It took a minute or two for my eyes to adjust to the light in there. Now, through my...- delia todd
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- Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
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Family moment
Wandering around the Russell Park Picnic area we came across this mother and joey Red-necked Wallaby. Nice moments to observe.- delia todd
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- Category: Wild Mammals
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Another "pale face"
We left our breakfast spot at Maidenwell and drove along further into the mountains; not far from out next stop Hans did an emergency stop so we could investigate a movement he'd seen in the trees. There was another Lifer for the day in the shape of this White-headed Pigeon! In awkward light sadly.- delia todd
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- Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
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Pale face
Birds were everywhere.... suddenly Judy saw a Pale-headed Rosella in a tree and thereby gave me another Lifer - a very pretty one too.- delia todd
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A maiden on a dray
We had breakfast at Maidenwell, but this was no run-of-the-mill stop. The window tables overlooked a large dray, which the owners put bird feed onto. First up was a new Lifer in a female Red-winged Parrot.- delia todd
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- Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
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Friendless
We had a very early start the next morning to get into the Bunya mountains. We stopped at a lovely township called Madenwell for breakfast. A lone Apostlebird was foraging in the carpark giving me the closest view I'd had so for, even though some of my sightings were near ones, this guy was...- delia todd
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Call of the White-browed Scrubwren
A bit agitated White-browed Scrubwren (Sericornis frontalis) calling in the Bunya Mountains National Park in 2014.- Michael Billerbeck
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Calls of Green Catbirds
In December 2014, when I was in the Bunya Mountains National Park, Queensland, Australia, I was able to hear the Catbird calls. The sound was so strange but interesting to me that I wanted to film them with their calls on video. So, in the end I managed to take some videos of the catbirds, and -...- Michael Billerbeck
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- Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
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Call of the Satin Bowerbird (♂)
I filmed this male Satin Bowerbird in the morning of the 31st of December in 2014 while he was calling in the Bunya Mountains National Park, Queensland, Australia. I am sharing this video because you can hear his call in this video. While I was in the Bunya Mountains National Park, I also...- Michael Billerbeck
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- Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
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Superb Fairywren (♂)
Every morning I made my tour in the Bunya Mountains National Park. You can see the Superb Fairywrens quite often there, but they are mainly foraging on the ground in the grassland. Occasionally they also can be seen on branches in the bushes. Usually, it is really hard to film them because they...- Michael Billerbeck
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Australian Golden Whistler (♂)
This is a short clip of the male Australian Golden Whistler calling which I filmed while wandering one of the walking tracks in the Bunya Mountains National Park, January 2015, in Queensland, Australia- Michael Billerbeck
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Matching
By now we'd worked our way back to the Trading Post at Maidenwell for a rather welcome cuppie. The garden out the back had some beautiful Jacaranda trees in bloom (they seemed to be in flower all over Queensland!) and this Blue-faced Honeyeater looked perfect in their with his own colouring to...- delia todd
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- 2019 australia blue-faced honeyeater bunya mountains entomyzon cyanotis jacaranda maidenwell nikon coolpix p900 october queensland
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- Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
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Variable
We'd now arrived at the JS Fisher's Look Out with more incredible views. We spent a few minutes wandering around here when looking down over the fence spotted something flitting around.. a wee family of Variegated Fairywrens. The only usable picture I got though was of a juvenile, the adults...- delia todd
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- 2019 australia bunya mountains js fishers lookout malurus lamberti nikon coolpix p900 october queensland variegated fairywren
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Hiding
We drove on and found ourselves at the Paradise Parking Area. After wandering about a bit and trying to get a picture of a White-browed Scrubwren I found myself by the toilet block. There was some movement and rustling in a shrub there, so I started trying to get a picture to find out what it...- delia todd
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- 2019 australia brown gerygone bunya mountains gerygone mouki nikon coolpix p900 october paradise parking area queensland
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Bunya Pines
I loved the look of these pine trees and was fascinated by the fact that the pine needles were in balls at the end of each branch, rather than spread along the branches in the way that we know pine trees here. As these were on Bunya Mountain and in the Bunya Mountain Nature Park, I had to take...- delia todd
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- Category: Wild Flowers, Trees, Shrubs, Fungi
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My Sooty Owl
This was what I was faced with when trying to get the picture of the Sooty Owl. Maybe you can see now why I was struggling to find whether or not I'd got him in the frame!! I've just done a very little crop. As I thought you still wouldn't see him, I've kindly arrowed him! Of course Hans was...- delia todd
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Pretty necklace
... well it is if you like yellow ones LOL. It shows he's in full breeding mode though. Back in the camp grounds I spotted this Brushturkey wandering about- delia todd
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Sooty Owl roost
I thought I'd show you the tree where the Sooty Owl I showed you yesterday roosted. It's obviously been in use by them for a long time, as the path leads directly there and there's an information board beside it. The tee was too high for me to get it all in and he was quite a long way up it...- delia todd
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- 2019 australia bunya mountains dandabah campground nikon coolpix p900 october queensland sooty owl roost tree
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- Category: Wild Flowers, Trees, Shrubs, Fungi
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Bright
On our way back, this wee Yellow Robin was easy to spot in the dim rainforest, but boy did he give us the run-around. Every time Judy and I got locked onto him he was off to another tree... took us quite a few minutes to finally get just two pictures LOL So pretty that you can't help but...- delia todd
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In the dark...
... in more ways than one. I didn't know until the last minute what Hans' plan was for me today but he took me inside a tree!!! A very big tree! And was it dark in there... just some light coming through from the broken top as we were blocking the light at the entrance. Three of us fitted...- delia todd
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