Some days the weather is perfect .... you find just the right bridge, at just the right time .... and Platypus magic happens.

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In the South-West of West Australia there are some tough to find local birds known as 'The Big Three' - tricky due to their cryptic colours and skulking nature.
This was a fabulous view we had of the Western Bristlebird, sound on for its very lovely sweet song
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A stunning Australian Hobby ripping up its lunch while perched over a creekline in the Northern Territory. The Hobby is in the Falcon family and hunts diurnally and crepuscularly on mainly birds, bats and insects.
Sound on for a bit of drama.

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This teeny tiny Little Kingfisher (Ceyx pusillus) measures a minute 12cm high and just over 10g We spotted one on South Alligator River and would have danced a jig of joy, would it not have upset the boat and tipped us in with the Salt Water Crocodiles..

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Glorious Spinifex Pigeons engaging in a courtship ritual involving a "kiss" where the male presents his open beak for the female to insert hers. Watch to see the male regurgitating into the female's beak, a pair bonding behavior used later for feeding young.

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The impressive, & slightly aggressive pre-mating dance of the Western Bowerbird beside his incredible bower packed with special white and green treasures - she seemed pretty impressed with his rizz.
Do admire his pink erectile-crest blossom of neck feathers!

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Bronzewings are beautiful Australian Pigeons with a rainbow shimmering within their wings. They fill the spring and summer soundscape with their lovely relentless ooom ooom ooom ooom ........

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The sweetest wee Velvet-furred Rat native to Australia, living its best life in a Baurera bush.

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The cheerful and charming Beautiful Firetail with its rocket red bum and tiny cartoon robber facemask. Tasmania's only native finch, I beam with joy each time I discover one.

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A beautiful male Pink Robin, a pop of powder-puff pink in amongst the shady temperate rainforest on Bruny Island.

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A flock of Hoary-headed Grebes passing by in the beautiful liminal light just before sunset on Bruny Island Tasmania.

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A recent tough, yet fascinating view of the final minutes for a White-lipped Snake as it was killed and eaten by a Kookaburra.

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A tiny endemic Tasmanian Thornbill with its wee white underpants, copper highlights and faint chest striations bopping about in a Richea scoparia in the alpine lake in Tasmania.

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