Townsville garden in February.
Despite lots of wind and rain some Ok bird in the garden this month.
Figbird feeding Koel
Figbird feeding Koel
Figbird
Figbird in the rain
Figbird
Great Bowerbird
Little Friarbird (uncommon garden visitor)
Helmeted friarbird, our normal garden visitor, this is a young bird.
Young Koel, maybe the one being feed in the earlier pictures.
female Koel, maybe mum, but maybe not.
Tawny Frogmouth
Lovely Ed, I think the last Koel shot is particularly beautiful.... the markings and the red eye are stunning !
I heard a pair calling to each other today at work in Nambour so they are still very much around down here lately.
Sunshine Coast Queensland
Wonderful photos Ed! Love the Tawny.
all amazing photos ed.
the quality and sharpness is wonderful.
great figbird shots,i just love figbirds but i live out of their range.
Cheers, Owen.
Exceptional photos as always. I love the photo of the figbird with the fruit in its beak
Great camera work Ed....what equipment do you use to shoot?
Shaka
Great photos, I wondering what lens you are using to get that close?
Thanks for your kind comments.
Camera is a Canon 40D, lens is 100-400L, flash, Canon 430EX11 used on a lot of the photos as fill light.
Ed Townsville NQ
great shots as usual ed you must have a great garden i am so jealous, actually got a scarlet honeyeater in the common last week are they common there as its the first one i have seen there
A great find,not at all common in Townsville, I have never seen one on the Common and a quick search seems to only turn up some reports of them on the Common in '86!!. I will keep an eye out on my weekend visit. Where abouts did you see it? It is possibly a Yasi displaced bird. Lots more than usual Wompoo, Brown-cuckoo and Superb Fruit Doves around at the moment.
Ed Townsville NQ
oh wow!! he was so tiny and flew across in the grass on the side of the road just back from the last water viewing stop before the 2nd hide he was flying into the little blue flowers down low lucky to see him just saw the bright red
here is a photo
wow!
itd great to get a shot of a scarlet honeyeater let alone see one. such a great little bird
Cheers, Owen.
Joannah, great find, should be reported as they are not common here, if you want go here http://www.eremaea.com/BirdlineRecentSightings.aspx?Birdline=5 and fill in a report.
Hope the link works.
Ed Townsville NQ
forgot to say, looks like a young male, going by the yellow bill.
Ed Townsville NQ
Nice shots Ed, love the Bowerbird.
Beautiful photos Ed. So clear!! Loved the Figbird shots :)
Elle