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Australia’s Disappearing Backyards Puts Pressure on Bird Life
The disappearance and downsizing of Australia's backyard in major capital cities is placing increased pressure of Australia's native birdlife. Ann-Maree Colborne, CEO of Gould Group, Australia's oldest environmental education organisation formed in 1909 with Prime Minister Alfred Deakin as its first president to protect native bird life said, the decade of drought has seen a major increase in birds migrating to the city in search of water and food.
Visited by a Juvenile Blue-faced Honeyeater
I see these birds often in my garden but they are so wary of me that I don't even come close to pointing my camera lense at them. Today, this juvenile came down and was perched on our pool fence with a couple of noisy miners.
Larking around the Lillypilly – Garden Guests Diary
The weather in Brisbane at the moment is extremely humid but over the last couple of days we've had heavy rain which has cleared the air and today was quite bearable and very blustery. When the sun manages to sneak out, there is a moist, golden glow in the air which I adore for taking photographs and the wet foliage is lush and tropical.
King Parrot returned with the Missus!
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I previously recorded in my Garden Guests Diary that a male Australian King Parrot came down for the very first time to our garden to feed on the seed bell. This was my first sighting ever of this magnificent bird. Months went by and he never returned – until now! King Parrot returned with the...
New Additions to the Kookaburra Family – Garden Guests Diary
I have been hearing the sounds of young kookaburras recently and they make an incessant, soft, screeching, mini laugh when they want to be fed. Today, mum brought one of her youngsters down for a feed on our fence and it is always a wonderful sight. There was nothing subtle about this young kookaburra’s feeding,...
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