This afternoon the Golden Whistlers were having a great time fly around the garden. The are small and fast so I had lots of photos to delete on the download đ
Tag: golden whistler
Golden in sight (and sound)
Bird of the Week Invitation: LIV
This week is the turn of the Golden Whistler. I know when they are in the garden or the surrounding bush. They don’t sit for very long but when they do they are looking around. When they see something, they can stop and look before launching at lunch, as this male Golden Whistler is about to do.
The Golden Whistler is found from northern Queensland, around coastal eastern and southern Australia, including Tasmania, to the middle of Western Australia
The females are quite pretty just not as showy as the males
I guess you want to hear one of Australia’s loudest and most beautiful songsters
REF: http://www.graemechapman.com.au/index.php
Golden Whistlers feed on insects, spiders and other small arthropods. Berries are also eaten. Feeding is usually done alone and most food is obtained from the lower or middle tree level
Male and female Golden Whistlers share the nest building duties. The nest is a shallow bowl, made of twigs, grass and bark, bound together with spider web and lined with finer grass. The nest is placed in a fork in a bush or tree up to 6 m above the ground.
I think this is a young Golden Whistler, maybe morphing into a male. Like most birds, the young look like the females until maturity.
REF: https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/golden-whistler/
Some of your favourites from 2023
Debbies Six Word Saturday
Debbie chose some of her favourite photos from 2023. I decided to look at the most popular of your Six Word Saturday photos just based on the number of likes a post received.
For a bit of fun, I tried to match Debbies title with my own (very loose) interpretation and photo in some of the posts.
These are in no particular order just added as I discovered what you liked. Is your favourite from 2023 in this lot?
Debbies Six Words: Cotton-picking patterns in Tashkent metro
My title: Finding a colourful place to sleep
Debbies Six Words: Glorious sunset over the River Clyde
My title: Glorious sunset over the neighbours cowâ
Debbies Six Words: Getting ready for a fashionable splash
My Title: Getting ready for a sudden splash
Debbies Six Words: Getting home at 04:00 isn’t golden
My Title: A golden way to wake up
Debbies Six Words: More than just opera and ballet
My Title: More than just open for bees
Debbies Six Words: Reflection or a piece of art
My Title: Reflections in a piece of art
Debbies Six Words: Tasty coffee and some inviting books
My Title: I really need a tasty coffee
Debbies Six Words: Hard to beat a sunny Thames
My Title: Hard to beat a sunny spot
Debbies Six Words: The lakeside walk becomes a swim
My Title: A quiet swim becomes a frenzy
Debbies Six Words: Two days before full Beaver Moon
My Title: One night only for a Moonflower
Debbies Six Words: Lets turn over a green leaf
My Title: Don’t turn over my green leaf
Debbies Six Words: Something is happening in the UK today
My Title: Something is happening at the birdbath today
A golden way to wake up
Debbies Six Word Saturday
Here’s why. Have a listen to a Golden Whistler. They are around the garden at the moment.
Re-living the Past #22 – going back to 2013
Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge: Review (2)
There were happy puppy kites
Stingless Native Bee all 5mm of her zooming past a Hibiscus flower. This plant was a cutting from my Mum’s garden.
A Gold-tailed Spiny Ant having a drink in a water drop on the verandah. I call them Gold Bum Ants until I learnt their real name
Looking under a mushroom
First time I found some freaky looking Finger Fungus
Of course there were flowers
There seemed to be pink flowers then
The first appearance on my drift wood Stick Man walking along the beach. The start of fun creations with things on the beach by my bestie and me
Shells photos were a fun post
Insects on flowers or insects in general were the beginnings of macro photography
Butterflies and Honey Gem Grevillea flowers became a favourite
As did birds who enjoyed the flowers nectar like this Blue-faced Honeyeater
Birds at the bird bath made easy to take photos. Golden Whistlers and others always stopped in for a drink or a bath
Everyone loved the Long-necked Tortoise sunning on the almost tortoise shaped rock
Here is my Rooster. He was the one who helped start me on my addiction to photo challenges, thanks to Yvette from Priorhouse who was looking for some feather photos
Of course there was a few Red-necked Wallaby photos, taken from my kitchen window, especially the cute Joeys.
One my way home from work in town, I sometimes stopped when the sunset looked amazing just a few kilometres from my place
My first sunset photo I posted. Can you spot on the mountains where the sun was setting from the previous photo?
On the angle
Debbie’s One Word Sunday: Diagonal
Couldn’t decide on one so here’s a few diagonals
Water
Intentional Camera Movement in the garden
A Pelican
Some clouds
A female Golden Whistler on a diagonal branch. There one minute and gone the next
The golden birds
A little bit precious
Cee’s Midweek madness Challenge: December Colours – Silver or Gold
Still
Kate’s Friday Fun: Still
You must stay still
or away they go.
Once gone
a lost thrill
This is June 2019
About time I hear you say. Yes I am a bit late with last months wrap up. I didn’t take as many photos early on and then I seemed to find lots to photograph. This months photos have a couple I have used in other photo challenges but I decided to keep this post a bit shorter by not including the those photos.
So sit back and have a scroll through my June
Let’s start in Inverell, a town about 200kms from my place. We decided to have a mini holiday and ventured west. My goodness the drought has really hit hard out there. Didn’t see the usual paddocks with sheep and cattle in them. Many farmers have de-stocked and just holding onto their core breeding stock for when the drought breaks.
We stayed at a fabulous B’n’B, Blair Athol a Manor house from the early 1900’s. It is a great place to stay
We did venture around the countryside. It was quite sad. I think this granite outcrop says it all.
I found a Pied Cormorant just after a bit of a dip in the water. I love how Cormorants do this. Makes me smile every time.
Back home I was surprised to see ducks on my house dam as the water level is quite low. Three Pacific Black Ducks cruise the dam.
Sometimes when I am about in the garden doing a bit of bird spotting I get a feeling I am being watched as well. This Grey-shrike Thrush was making sure I was being good.
Another Winter visitor to the garden are Golden Whistlers
Of course a monthly wrap wouldn’t be the same without the resident Eastern Yellow Robin who found a post to sit on while surveying the garden for a snack.
Little Striated Thornbills are flying about the garden in the afternoons
The Rose Robins are still around as well
The Agave looked lovely in the afternoon light
This is called Witches Broom it is on a small Eucalypt.
The variety of plants that are growing on a palm in the garden is wonderful. At the front is an Elk Horn, behind it on the right is a Birds nest Fern. They are surrounded by Hares Foot Fern and to the left rear is Fishbone Fern. All of these plants have decided to grow among the palm’s trunk.
Nearby, a Jacaranda has a lovely growth of moss that cascades to the ground.
My mate Geoffs Iris has flowered. Always will bring back a memory.
All around the place Lichen has sprung up as there has been showers of rain over the last part of the month enough to keep the garden happy and for some plants to emerge.
I love finding water drops. My besties place has had much more rain than here.
These are the seed pods from an Eucalypt tree I found in Inverell.
I haven’t taken many photos of the Red-necked Wallabies that hang around my place. I caught this bloke with a mouth full of grass.
Late one afternoon at my besties, she called out to come over to where she was in the garden. She found a little Bandi Bandi going across a log heading for a safe place to spend the night.
There appears to be lots of Wanderer Butterflies about at the moment. Found this one flying around the lane-ways of Lismore.
Meanwhile there are Wanderers in my besties garden feeding on Echinacea flowers.
One day we decided to head to the coast for lunch at the Ballina Beach Surf Club. Afterwards, after watching whales from the window while eating, we wandered up to the headland and watched the Humpback Whales cruising past. I bit of blow usually let me know where they were.
I love it when they gave a wave.
Managed to get some tail shots.
but could never be focused on the right place when a Humpback breached
Now for a bit of weird. Walking down a lane in Lismore we always look to see if this window has changed. I think the hand and flag on the right have been added.
A stack of chairs in a window.
One morning, the mist was settled in the valleys. I used to tell the kids that the mountains have captured the clouds.
A bit of my playing around with photos. A Magpie on a steel post
OK the sun is down so time for me to go.
I hope you have enjoyed a bit of a look at my June. The feature photo is a butterfly among the Zinnias in my besties garden.