Square-tailed Kite – bushboys world

Monday Portrait – 13 March

Published on March 13, 2023March 9, 2023 by bushboy37 Comments

The local Square-tailed Hawk always on the watch for lunch

In the distance

Published on April 15, 2022 by bushboy24 Comments

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: In the Distance

It’s open

Published on April 20, 2021April 20, 2021 by bushboy33 Comments

The Photo a Week Challenge: Open

Lesser Wanderer Butterfly

Frangipanni in my garden

Beautiful Blue Triangle Butterfly

Square-tailed Kite soaring over my place

Where is my dinner!!!!

You make me laugh

A few rectangles and squares

Published on October 2, 2019 by bushboy13 Comments

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Rectangles and Squares
Some bricks
Part of an old childs puzzle
The old fire door in an alley in Lismore
Lots of tiles
A door in Italy

The new footpath in Lismore

A window in my house
The Square at the foot of the Spanish Steps – Piazza di Spagna – in Rome
And a Square-tailed Kite to finish

A little behind

Published on June 22, 2019 by bushboy22 Comments

The Weekly Prompt Photo Challenge: Rear

No words just photos.

Size

Published on June 9, 2019 by bushboy28 Comments

Here is Debbies One Word Sunday: Size
Some of the things I have been contemplating on contributing for OWS perhaps can also be some of my Favourite Things as Patti from Ragtag asked.
Perhaps some of the small things in my world should be a start. The feature photo is a Scarlet Honeyeater, the smallest honeyeater and a red jewel that flashes through my garden and the forest.

I love having Stingless Native Bees in my garden

and of course Blue-banded Bees scrunching into flowers
All of the tiny native flowers that abound on my place

I have to include some big things too. Kookaburras are always hunting in the garden and waking me with their morning song

Overhead one of the Square-tailed Kite family soars
While in the garden, a Red-necked Wallaby snacks on the Honey Gem Grevillea

The trees of the forest that surround are the big

Now a warning for those who have a thing about spiders – there is one in the next image

Isn’t she a beauty. She lived in my laundry for a Summer and then came into the lounge and dining rooms for Winter last year. I think she became bored of my company and headed outside.

Courage

Published on May 14, 2019 by bushboy11 Comments

The Ragtag Daily Prompt Tuesday: Courage

The Wedged-tailed Eagle has his lunch, a Water Dragon, and is being harassed by a Magpie. It takes courage to fly near a Magpie nest
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A Square-tailed Kite soars above the forest much to the displeasure of a Noisy Friarbird. The shape to the left rear of the Kite is the Friarbird about to give the Kite a good kick.
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The courage of much smaller birds defending their territory against large birds of prey takes courage don’t you think?

Kite

Published on April 1, 2019 by bushboy6 Comments

The Ragtag Daily word prompt for Saturday: Kite

So many Kites around here, I’ll just have to post a few I guess

A Black-shouldered Kite
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A Whistling Kite whistling kite_junction hill_named_sept 2014

A Brahminy Kite
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A Black Kite black kite_named_lismore_july 2018
A Square-tailed Kite square-tailed-kite01_named_home_nov-2016
A Dog Kite 180628_blog challenge_diagonal_kite

Birds Around My Neighbourhood

Published on March 10, 2019 by bushboy29 Comments

Two photo challenges caught my eye today.

Lens-artists: Around the Neighbourhood

Jenns: Feathered Friends

Come for a quick walk around my neighbourhood. There is my dead end gravel road which is about three kilometers long which has an intersection with another gravel road which is paved about sixteen kilometers from my place. It goes from the highway to a long way away, perhaps fifty kilometers.

Lets get going.

The Noisy Friarbird will often let others know we are about

Listen for a chip chip and look at the tree trunks to see a White-throated Treecreeper scouring the bark for an insect or two

The lovely face of a Blue-faced Honeyeater

You might hear the wings of the Eastern Spinebill before you see one zoom past

The Pied Butcherbirds song will fill the forest as we walk along

We may see a Jackie Winter sitting on a fence

Lovely little Eastern Yellow Robins will be chip chip chipping seemingly endlessly

Of course the familiar sounds of Kookaburras will resound around the bush

Small Brown Honeyeaters will be silently having a snack on a Bottlebrush

A flash of colour and a Spotted Pardelote will fly by

A Forest Kingfisher, a sudden flash like a blue jewel, as he flies through the bush

The unmistakable squawking of Rainbow Lorikeets as they argue about whose branch it is will get your attention

The beautiful song of a Rufous Whistler will kep you spell bound for ages

A whistle, a flash of red, the smallest honeyeater is unmistakable in the bush

High in the tree, the resident Square-tailed Kite will keep an eye on you

While overhead it’s mate will soar
Up the road a bit, some Crimson Rosellas have a snack on the horses feed

What’s that chatter chatter chatter? I hear you say. The Grey-crowned Babblers walk about the forest floor snacking on unsuspecting insects talking about their day

More jewels in the sky as the Rainbow Bee-eaters gather

Another remarkable song and bright yellow of the Golden Whistler will make you stop and listen

Musk Lorikeets can be seen as they feast on the nectar of Pink Euodias

The largest bird of prey, a Wedged-tailed Eagle on the lookout for an unsuspecting wallaby or animal, will sit silent until we get to close

A bit more whistling heralds that we are near some King Parrots

A strange metallic sound draws our attention to the iridescent and distinctive tail shape of the wonderfully named Spangled Drongo

A Satin Bowerbird who is similarly coloured to a Drongo will be in the bush sometimes finding food

or finding sticks or blue stuff to decorate and construct his Bower