Bit of an assortment from last week at Gluepot Reserve.
The variety of Mallee birdlife constanty amazes and keeps me coming back for more.
White-browed Treecreeper - female
Rufous Whistler - female
Nankeen Kestrel - juvenile
Grey Butcherbird - juvenile
Emerging Mallee Plant
Major Mitchell's
Striped Honeyeater
Nice Rick, Gluepot is a special place, shame it's so far for me. The MMC is a great shot but i find the Mallee plant instill's a great feeling of how something can grow in such an arid environment.
Shorty......Canon gear
Canberra
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Superb shots! I absolutely love the photo of the Striped Honeyeater.
M.M.
Nice set of birds! I especially love the shot of the mallee plant and the kestral!
Ryu
Canberra
Aiming for DSLR-quality shots with a bridge camera
The plant looks like one of the Chenopods. Wonderful habitat - as you would expect - for all sorts of birds (e.g., Crimson & Yellow Chats), lizards, snakes, insects. The mallee, as Rick indicates, has a wonderfully rich biodiversity. Given the amazing adaptations plants & animals have made to arid environments it's perhaps no surprise there is such diversity. Observe & learn.
Great set of birds Rick. I keep hearing about the Gluepot...one day! (Good luck with the weather this week down there).
Samford Valley Qld.
Great set Rick.
Nice shot of the tree creeper. Agree with the others that the striped honeyeater is a beauty.
Thanks all for your comments.
Highlight for me was seeing the three young Kestrels all trying to find their way in the world.
I visited their nesting area for a couple of days and it was interesting to observe their
quirkiness and learning the ropes behavour.
On my last morning they left soon after I arrived and just as I had decided to pack up Four Major Mitchells landed in the Kestrels nesting tree.
Majors did a little preening then like a bolt out of the blue the juvenile Kestrels attacked at amazing speed with lots of squawking and loose feathers flying in the breeze.
My feeling was the Kestrels were practicing attack procedures as well as to send the message " This is OUR tree" :-)
Nice series of photos Rick, 2 new ones in there for me. As Reflex said One day I will get there.