Latest migrating visitor to the Yalukit Willam Nature Reserve: a female Flame Robin. A perching ambush hunter, she uses posts, fences and branches to spot her insect prey on the ground.
#flamerobin #ausbirds #YalukitWillamreserve #wetlands #australia

We have one that has moved into a bird house usually used by starlings. Warm day so he was cooling down with an arm out.
#moorooduc #willowindfarm

a few more Grebes from the local creek.

An immature Black-shouldered Kite. Adults are pure white with grey upper and black shoulders. No threat to the ducks below preferring mice and insects. Ready for the evening hunt it stretched then waggled, rising on the breeze.
#black-shoulderedKite #AUSbirds #YalukitWillamReserve #raptors #wetlands

One of the many Rainbow Lorikeets attacking a Flame Tree in my backyard. I had Lorikeets, Cockatoos and Corellas feeding on the flower buds, the nectar and the large seed pods of the tree doing the day with Fruit Bats/flying foxes taking the night shift.

its been a bit warm lately for too many visits but I did notice yesterday a pair of Australasian Grebes that were circling each other - hoping love is in the air.

Brown Falcon with captured Tiger snake. Western Treatment Plant, Werribee, Vic.
#raptors #Brownfalcon #tigersnake #westerntreatmentplant #ausbirds

A curious Juvenile Black-shouldered Kite on a road marker, Western Treatment Plant, Werribee.
#Blackshoulderedkite #AustralianBirds #birdphotography #wetlands #raptors

The resident Baillon's Crake at the Frog Pond in Yalukit William Nature Reserve. There are now between 3-5 of these tiny birds at the local reserve.
#BaillonsCrake #Australianbirds #waterbirds #wetlands

Tawny Frogmouth family, Braeside Park.

A Baillon's Crake on the edge of the Growling Grass Frog Pond at the Yalukit William Nature Reserve.

Buff Banded Rail at the local nature reserve

Post something green: Growling Grass Frog