Wild Bird Wednesday - Port Augusta Birds

I shot all these while drinking my hot chocolate

on the terrace of the 

Port Augusta Arid Lands Botanical Gardens

Unfortunately all were shot against the light

and had to be enhanced

Wattlebird

Singing Honeyeater on left and

White-Plumed Honeyeater on right

this one dead tree in front of the

picture windows of the cafe

was a perfect perch

with upwards of 4 birds at a time

Singing Honeyeater

White-Plumed Honeyeater

and, as everywhere near human habitation,

a European settler, the ordinary 

House Sparrow

Linking with Stewart's

Wild Bird Wednesday

God willing, next week some more colourful birds 

from the same location.

OUR WORLD & Wild Bird Wednesday

Remember my New Holland Honeyeaters?

Well, we had a massive windstorm recently that, apart from 

crashing a great old weeping willow across the gateway to the 

main farmhouse, smashed two thirds of the all year round food

source of our honeyeaters and left our 17,000 gallon water tank

exposed to sight.

On the other hand, it did make it a little easier to get a shot of the 

muscle man of honeyeaters, the Wattlebird. This chap terrorises 

cats as well as all the other honeyeaters whose territory this is.

Over the last five years the wattlebird population has 

increased so dramatically that their rather unpleasant screech
rings out anywhere you go.

Linking to OUR WORLD 

and

Wild Bird Wednesday

Bird Photography Weekly ~ 21 The Wattlebird

Red Wattlebird, Anthochaera lanulata, a fun bird
to have around, although he makes a mess of the blossoms
on my Redhot Poker and is not very nice to the smaller

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birds, the entertainment value of his terrorising the

cat by loudly clicking his beak loudly just above her

head, is worth every bit of the down side.

More shots will follow another time, I could not find

them among the thousands of photos on my lap-top.

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