noisy miner

.... so on my way back towards the hotel for breakfast I spotted this Noisy Miner in a tree. It seems ages since I'd last seen one too, but still managed to recognise him all on my own LOL. Mmmm.... breakfast was good. No wonder I put on so much weight while I was away!

We then headed off back to the folk festival at Willunga. As we got out of the car Peter spotted two Straw-necked Ibis flying over, but I made a bit of a mess of that picture, but a few yards into the grounds in the trees lining the path was a Noisy Miner. Obviously he'd followed me down from...

Hunting for insects on the flowers of one of our large Bromeliads

There was a Noisy Miner in the campsite with a very fancy hairdo, with a great bunch of nuchal feathers. I've never seen this happen on any other bird.

I've got a bit lost as to where this was, we'd left the waterfall carpark and were heading for the Canyon Lookout, en route we called into another car parking area. This Noisy Miner was wandering around the central grassy area.

.... throw them some crumbs! Noisy Miner was another species cleaning up round the picnic area.

A Noisy Miner come down to fill his face, so that kept him quiet too LOL Now wondering why they got called 'noisy'?

I came out onto the verandah that afternoon and found Ken examining my camera and playing about with some settings! He got me to experiment with the camera set on EXR (which I'd never used as I hadn't understood what it was)! Here was my first picture on that setting.... ummm.... silly me...

The Kookaburra was initially on the ground but flew up into this tree. I didn't notice the Noisy Miners at first, they blended in so well.

.... but then so was I LOL. For once I was level with the treetops on that path. And at last saw some birds in there, a pair of Noisy Miners, they didn't give me the best of views though, did they!

Well..... just returned from the trip of a Lifetime, two wonderful months in Australia, which I'll try my best to talk you through but excuse any errors, especially in these first days recovering from jet lag!! Ken, and his lovely wife Judy met me at Brisbane Airport and looked after me for the...

Living up to its name

These little birds are very aggressive, they gang up and attack other birds including those bigger in size. As the result they take over other species on large areas... I read about an experiment in another state. They planted tall undergrowth trees on experimental area preventing noisy miners...

Feeding on nectar from a Kangaroo Paw flower

The spikes on our Xanthorrhoea are coming into flower and much liked by the honeyeaters .

This miner has apparently been mining ;)

One of the first birds I saw on my Australia trip - one of these guys, some feral pigeons and some Australian Ibis in a park just up the road from my hotel. Took a while before I connected sound to bird, though. They really live up to their name (at least, to their first name - I haven't seen...

Taken in the garden while it was feeding on nectar from a Grevillea.

Due to bad weather I don't have many good pictures to share...

These birds are very territorial and aggressive, driving away other species, constantly squabbling amongst themselves and vocalising constantly. They can be quite photogenic, however.

Another aggressive and territorial bird up in the umbrella tree

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