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ALL PHOTOGRAPHS ON THESE PAGES HAVE BEEN TAKEN BY BILL JOLLY  UNLESS OTHERWISE INDICATED  IMAGES WHICH CAN BE ENLARGED ARE MARKED click image to enlarge

February, 2008 - Late summer

White-throated Nightjar A pair of White-throated Nightjars have nested on a property not far from here. When I dropped in there the other day, they took a bit of finding , but eventually I spotted both adult birds on the ground, Iess than a metre apart. I took a couple of long-range photos, but they knew I was there and both of them flew up to nearby trees, leaving their solitary chick dependent on its camouflage amongst the forest litter.  I'm sure I would never have seen the chick had I not noted where the parent birds had been, but there it was, snuggled helplessly against a stone. Just a few seconds of photos of the chick, and I retreated back down the track, not to return this year.

The chick and the other adult nightjar

Spangled Drongo The regular chattering of Spangled Drongos can sometimes sound a bit like the noisy squawking of Dollarbirds. The other day we watched a drongo in a tree close by the house as he called, first exactly like a Pied Butcherbird, then a Noisy Miner, and then a Nankeen Kestrel - each call indistinguishable from the bird he must have learned it from.   Immature Pallid Cuckoo

This young Sacred Kingfisher regularly uses the verandah as a vantage point from which to dive for prey.

Black-winged Stilts If you wander anywhere near Black-winged Stilts while they have  eggs or young, they'll make a noisy bee-line for you, yapping all the way.

January 1, 2008 - Roosting owls

Southern Boobook

Two Southern Boobooks spent the entire New Year's Day adjacent to each other in a tree just outside my window.  These photographs were taken from my desk. Other birds didn't seem to spot them until around 7 or 8am, then honeyeaters, fairy-wrens, thornbills and others kept up a noisy hassle for a few hours. All the owls did was to shift their positions a few centimetres now and then, and just stay put until after dark.

This-morning, at least four and maybe five or six Eastern Whipbirds were criss-crossing noisily between eucalypts  close to the house, never still for a moment, constantly fanning their tails and wings, whip-cracking  and making all manner of other excitable sounds for at least 20 minutes. In the afternoon, the cabaret moved down to a row of creekside casuarinas. The Royal Spoonbill flew overhead while I was watching the Eastern Whipbirds.

Late December, 2007 - The creek is back

Lockyer Creek at Abberton on New Year's Eve

When I looked out through the dining-room windows at 5am this-morning, a Black Bittern was standing in shallow water right in front of the house.  I tried to sneak onto the verandah for some better photographs – but it flew off immediately I got out there.   However, just a little to the left of where the bittern had been the Bush-hen was strolling about in the shallows - calling occasionally as he wandered  around completely in the open. I managed half-a-dozen photos from the verandah, as well as a good long look through my binoculars.  This individual looks prime for breeding, with a rich bluish-purple breast.   Around 7am when I took another look through the windows, the Black Bittern was back again, so I just snapped away through the closed window,  and got some passable images. The bittern turns up in the same spot at some stage most days, the present shallow level of the creek just in front of the house seems  to suit its needs. But it's a very flighty bird indeed.

Black Bittern

Bush-hen

A very wet Scaly-breasted Lorikeet

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