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Afternoon, Melbourne! ☔️ 🌧️ ☔️

Yesterday at the water-cooler!

#wildoz #ozbirds #birds 🦉📷 #birdsinbackyards #TrailCam #galah #piedcurrawong #silvereye #greyfantail #crimsonrosella
November 16, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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Morning, Melbourne! ☀️ 🥳 🌞

Every day is a good day …

#wildoz #ozbirds #birds 🦉📸 #birdsinbackyards #ganggangcockatoo #parrot
Image of a an immature Gang-gang cockatoo feeding from a messmate. Good Birbs very very good birbs
November 14, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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Afternoon Melbourne! ☔️ 💧 ☔️

Good weather for …

#wildoz #ozbirds #birds 📷🦉 #manedduck
Image of 3 baby Maned ducks sunning themselves on a path by a waterhole.
November 8, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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Disputed Credit Card transaction … finds “contact us” … funnelled into Banking chat … weave thru AI BankBot … transferring you human. Cool.

wait …
waiting …
waiting still …

Yeahnah

📱 bank … matter fixed in 5 minutes tops …

Meanwhile back @ BankBot™️

Waiting … still.

How do they make 8bio/y?
November 6, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Morning Melbourne! 🌫️

Hop to it, the weekend’s nigh.

#wildoz #ozbirds #birds 🦉📷 #redrumpedparrot
Image of a Red-rumped or ground parrot leaping over a concrete tub. With the recent heavy rains, the tub is filled with water. These guys are highly coloured, especially males, with a blue-green upper leading to yellow at the underparts, deep blue wings leading to grey, and then there is their eponymous bright red rump clearly shown in this image. The females are a more demure khaki colour.
November 6, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Morning Melbourne ☁️ 🥶 ☔️

Borage forage.

#wildoz #ozbirds #birds 📷🦉 #birdsinbackyards #crimsonrosella
Image of an adult Crimson rosella dining in the abundant purple flowers of a Borage plant in the vegetable garden.
November 4, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Morning ☔️ 🏆 Melbourne 🏆 ☔️

*sound on*

#wildoz #ozbirds #birds 🦉📷 #birdbathcam #birdsinbackyards
November 3, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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Morning Melbourne! ☔️ 🚣 ☔️

Stealth mode: engaged ✅

#wildoz #ozbirds #birds 📷🦉 #greybutcherbird #murdebirb
Image of a juvenile Grey butcherbird diving from its perch and about to swoop my unsuspecting pooch. Its wings are fully flared and landing gear retracted - full-on stealth mode.
November 3, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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Morning Melbourne! ☀️🌡️ ☀️

The cat that got the cream: avian style.

#wildoz #ozbirds #birds 🦉📷 #birdsinbackyards #laughingkookaburra
Image of a Laughing kookaburra, feathers fluffed into a ball, displaying its dinner catch of a large garden lizard. We won’t mess around with these great birbs, they are well known to kill snakes for funsies.
November 2, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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Morning Melbourne! 🌧️

Intersecting inquisitive & idiosyncratic!

#wildoz #ozbirds #birds 🦉📷 #birdsinbackyards #ganggangcockatoo
Image of sub-adult male Gang-gang cockatoo. These gorgeous Australian cockatoos (parrots) are known for their idiosyncrasies: a call that sounds like a squeaky door, adult males with their vivid carmine-red head adorned by a fascinating feathery crest, a cheeky inquisitiveness, and being an all around brilliant species. I am so fortunate to have them on my doorstep.
October 30, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Morning Melbourne! 🌞 😎 🌞

Breakfast anyone?

#wildoz #ozbirds #birds 🦉📷 #birdsinbackyards #vivid #easternrosella
Closely cropped image of an Eastern rosella feeding on the ground. The reds, blues, yellows, and greens of this shy little parrot positively scream out of image - internally enhanced using Nikons Vivid mode. As if it needed that! Very good little birb.
October 29, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Morning Melbourne! 🌞 🧊 🌞

Pensive, a portrait!

#wildoz #ozbirds #birds 🦉📷 #greybutcherbird
Image of an adult Grey butcherbird posing pensively atop a metal post. Good birbs.
October 27, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Afternoon Melbourne! ☔️ 🥶 ☔️

Too wet for a walk so here’s a composite video cobbled from several stills captured yesterday of an Eastern whipbird. These forest floor dwellers do present quite the challenge.

#wildoz #ozbirds #birds 🦉📷 #easternwhipbirdn
October 26, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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Morning Melbourne! ⛅️

Caught! Red … Headed.

#wildoz #ozbirds #birds 📷🦉 #kingparrot #birdsinbackyards
Image of male King parrot on a terracotta pot about to make a meal of the flowering plants. These guys are well known for 5eir voracious eating on flowering plants and especially adore immature green tomatoes.
October 24, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Morning Melbourne! ☔️ ☔️

Breakfast: earthworm with just a hint of HCOOH

Bitten off more than it could chew?

#wildoz #ozbirds #birds 🦉📷 #laughingkookaburra #birdsinbackyards
Cropped image of a Laughing kookaburra playing with a recently captured earthworm in its beak. As a bonus, a large ant can be seen in its beak. Ants produce formic acid (an pungent acrid vinegar-like carboxylic acid) as a defense mechanism and this may be reason the Kookaburra looks like it has bitten off more than it can chew.
October 21, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Morning Melbourne! ☔️

Wet start to the week at least we had a fine weekend!

#wildoz #ozbirds 🦉📷 #birds #redwattlebird
A Red wattlebird enjoying a mouthful of insects as the sun shines brightly. Image is beautifully side-lighted casting the background in full shadow save for the tree on which it sits.
October 19, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Morning Melbourne! 🌬️

A brilliant day for twitching yielded a close encounter with a Superb Lyrebird. These guys are masters of mimicry & I’ve used the captured grainy images (very low light) over a soundtrack taken previously in Gembrook Park.

#wildoz #ozbirds #birds🦉📷
October 18, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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Morning Melbourne!

Back to cool again. This is not a laughing matter.

#wildoz #ozbirds #birds 🦉📷 #laughingkookaburra
Image of Laughing kookaburra sitting atop a concrete post… looking intently at the ground for its next feed.
October 18, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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Morning Melbourne! 🌥️

Ok, so I won Birb of the Year. Can you wake me when something REALLY exciting happens? I’m off for a nap, I’ve been up ALL night.”

#wildoz #ozbirds #birds 📷🦉 #notanowl #tawnyfrogmouth #frogmouthfriday
Image of a female Tawny frogmouth having a yawn as she settles down after a night of incubation & feeding. The Tawny frogmouth was Vox pop voted as 2025 bird of the year after being runner up many many times. About time we all say.Very very good birbs.
October 16, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Morning Melbourne! ☀️ ☀️ ☀️

Fingers crossed 🤞🏻 for this guy in the 2025 Bird of Year.

#WildOz #OzBirds #birds 🦉📷 #TawnyFrogmouth #notanowl
Image of a doleful looking female Tawny Frogmouth in a Pine tree. Her partner is 75m away on a flimsy and precariously sited nest sharing incubation duties of a clutch of 2 eggs. It’s a worrying time of year for Tawnies.
October 14, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Morning Melbourne!

The bush is teeming with the magnificent sounds of Golden whistlers atm. Such a very good thing.

#wildoz #ozbirds #birds 📷🦉
Close cropped image of a male Golden whistler, mouth agape, in full song. The catches his golden colouring & clear eyed-brilliance to perfection. A very good little birb.
October 13, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Hedge trimmer!

#WildOz #OzBirds #birds 🦉📷 #crimsonrosella #birdsinbackyardsb
Image of an adult Crimson rosella in the middle of a fruiting Portwine magnolia hedge casually helping itself to some of the abundant buds.
October 11, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Thrillseekers, remember to cast your vote here:

#birds 🦉📷

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Australian bird of the year 2025: vote for your favourite #birdoftheyear in the Guardian / BirdLife Australia poll
From little penguins to (very big) cassowaries, every bird has its fans. Vote for your favourite in the 2025 Guardian/BirdLife Australia poll
www.theguardian.com
October 9, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Morning Melbourne! 💨 🌞 🌬️

All eyes on the weekend.

#wildoz #ozbirds #birds 📷🦉 #satinbowerbird
Female Satin bowerbird captured on the birdbath edge. The dominant aspect of the image is the piercing violet eye glinting in the sun.
October 9, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Who says we don’t do #halloween in Straya?

#wildoz #ozbirds #birds 🦉📷 #easternyellowrobin
Image of a tiny Eastern yellow robin perched on a branch. Its head covered in spider web and evokes the increasing adorning of property as we get closer to the end of October = Halloween
October 6, 2025 at 9:16 PM