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Morning, Melbourne! 💨 ⛅️ 💨

Sights & sounds on a walk through Gembrook Park yesterday. Even managed an audio bomb from Puffing Billy.

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December 7, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Morning, Melbourne. ☀️ ⛅️ 😊

Some sun today = happiness.

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Image of a male Yellow-tailed black cockatoo happily feeding on some ripe pine cones.
December 7, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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Afternoon, Melbourne! ☔️ 🌧️ ☔️

Yesterday at the water-cooler!

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November 16, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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Morning, Melbourne! ☀️ 🥳 🌞

Every day is a good day …

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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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Morning Melbourne ☁️ 🥶 ☔️

Borage forage.

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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*

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November 3, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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Morning Melbourne! ☀️🌡️ ☀️

The cat that got the cream: avian style.

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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!

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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?

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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! ⛅️

Caught! Red … Headed.

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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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All the data collected this week will help provide a snapshot of how our birds are faring. Even if you don't have many birds in your local area, every bird count helps! Happy birding ☺️ 4/4

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October 23, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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🦜If you need help identifying a bird, the app has a 'Find a Bird' feature with photos, distribution maps and descriptions
🦜Submit your count at the end of 20 mins... 3/4

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October 23, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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🦜Download the 'Bird Count' app
🦜Pick a nice spot outside
🦜Make sure your location is turned on
🦜Start the timer and note down any birds you see or can accurately identify from their call... 2/4

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October 23, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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Morning Melbourne! ☔️ ☔️

Breakfast: earthworm with just a hint of HCOOH

Bitten off more than it could chew?

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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! ⛅️

More signs summer is approaching.

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Image of female Yellow-tailed black cockatoo perched in an Acacia. She was with her life partner & 2 juvenile cockatoos. Every year about this time they ascend up into the hills to raise their young & feed on the plentiful pine seeds and tree grubs. It’s a sure sign summer is approaching.
October 6, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Are you looking to attract native birds to your garden this spring? 🦜 🏡 Here's some top tips from @drkyliesoanes.bsky.social and yours truly!

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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Birds and cities don’t always mix well. But small changes in our behaviour can make a difference
Spring is a great time of year for noticing neighbourhood birds. Here are some simple ideas for helping the birds in Australian back yards, cities and towns
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October 4, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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Satin bowerbird having a shower.

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Image of a sub-adult male Satin bowerbird. Young males, to the age of 7, are coloured like females with distinctively green/brown or otherwise entirely brown upper body and lighter under body with a distinct reticulated or scalloped pattern, but with very striking blue eyes. This guy’s eye is violet and his beak is lightly coloured showing advancing maturity.
October 2, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Morning Melbourne! 🥶 ☔️ 💨

And it’s pinch-punch time today!

Also today, the King of the hedge, lurking with malintent.

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Male Australian king parrot peering out from within the Portwine magnolia hedge. Bright red head, yellow ringed irises, and a deep green (British racing green?) body defines this articulate inquisitive parrot. Good birbs except when stealing uno”ripened tomatoes.
September 30, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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Morning Melbourne! 🌞 ☀️ 😎

Another instalment of BirbBathCam: the mimicry of the Satin bowerbird. Who knew?

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September 29, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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Morning, Melbourne!

Little birb, big splash.

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Image of a Grey fantail making a splash after a quick birdbath dip. During winter, they migrate to parts warmer (who’d blame them) and only in the past week have they been seen in increasing numbers. I call them “𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑢𝑠𝑢𝑎𝑙 𝑠𝑢𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑠” as during our summer one always sees them flitting about industriously!
September 13, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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Morning Melbourne: audience with Royalty anyone?

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Attractive adult male King parrot grasping the still dormant branch of a Manchurian pear. The adult male has a red head, breast, and lower undersides, with a blue band on the back of the neck between the red above and green on the back, the wings are green and each has a pale green shoulder band, the tail is green, and the rump is blue. Good birbs even though they steal green tomatoes off the vine. Cheeky adult female King parrot. The plumage of the female is very different from the male having a green head and breast, a grey beak, and the pale shoulder band is small or absent.
September 10, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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Ep 05 … Introducing BowerVision®

Latest shenanigans from the Bower.

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September 7, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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Ep 04: To the sounds of "𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑜𝑦𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑖𝑛 𝑡𝑜𝑤𝑛."

Some interesting observations on Bowerbird behaviour. More info in Alt-txt.

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September 1, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Morning Melbourne: under the weather here… literally & figuratively.

So, what better way to feel better than with two Gang-gangs…

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Image of two gorgeous female Gang-gang cockatoos. One is already perched on a branch and is reacting at the approach of the second gliding in, wings spread, for landing on the end of the branch. Action shot of two brilliant iconic Australian birbs.
August 27, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Morning Melbourne. 💨

Today’s living weather as presented by the Gembrook anemometer.

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Image of an adult male Gang-gang cockatoo perched on a branch. He has a vibrant carmine-red head that is topped by an elaborate feathered crop which is leaning to the right is if caught by a strong gust of wind. It’s a cockatoo wind-speed gauge or anemometer.
August 25, 2025 at 11:18 PM