More from a Townsville garden in March, another wet month, but some good visitors and the usual suspects.
Peaceful Dove
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Peaceful Doves in the rain, dusk, flash.
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Helmeted Friarbird enjoying the last few rays of sunshine on one of the very few sunny days in March.
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Koel feeding on palm seeds.
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Young Orange-footed Scrubfowl, second year running one of these has taken to the garden.
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Great shots as usual from your wonderful garden Ed.... love the pair of peaceful doves. I have only seen one once....their markings are lovely.
Sunshine Coast Queensland
I've never even heard of a scrubfowl, learn something new every day.
.....nice photos!! Hi GregL, they are a bit smaller than the Brush-turkey,but brownish-grey, with bright orange legs and feet.(belong to the same family)
M-L
great shots and good range of birda coming to your garden ed.
Cheers, Owen.
Great photos. I was interested to see the helmeted friarbird - I saw my first noisy friarbirds near here the other day. That is a really lovely photo of the koel
Ditto for this set. I love the first Peaceful Dove shot.
Cheers,
George
Melbourne, VIC