Birds

About a month ago I went out for a morning walk without any intention of taking these photos... but was distracted, as usual, by one of my favorite photographic subjects.  Just in an hour I saw so many different birds: magpies, wood ducks, currawongs, galahs, wattlebirds, a cuckoo shrike, eastern rosellas, a darter, honeyeaters, kookaburras, crimson rosellas, European starlings, fairy wrens, magpie larks, crows, crested pigeons and more.  It's fun to be able to recognize and name the different birds we see around here.

 

Wood ducks on the dry playing fields

Cuckoo-shrike disturbing the dew as it landed on a eucalyptus tree

And taking flight once more.

Galah

A hiding Eastern Rosella

Darter

It couldn't decide whether or not to fly away as I approached.

Honeyeater

Invasive European Starlings

Magpie chasing off a pied currawong

Fairy wren

Evil eye from a magpie