Notes to readers of this Blog


NOTES TO READERS OF THIS BLOG

Thank you for dropping by to check out my blog. You will see a lot of other Blogs about birds I follow down the left hand side. I strongly encourage you to check some of these out as well, they are entertaining and I love to see birds from all over the world, I hope you do too.
Cheers,
Richard

Friday, 26 October 2012

Finke Stories - a plethora of birds

The last week was spent at Finke, the nearest community to the geographical heart of Australia. I think the total number of species was about 50, I'll add the link to the Eremaea list here later.

One of the highlights was the Rainbow Bee-eaters that frequented the powerlines and trees around my accommodation. They really are a spectacularly colourful bird:

Rainbow Bee-eater

 
  

 

Between the township, the poo ponds and along the road near Finke back to Kulgera, there was quite an amazing variety, as well as some rather "common" birds missing. Below is a selection of photos of other birds from the past week:

 Brown Falcon

Common Bronzewing

 Diamond Dove

 Surprise bird here, Flock Bronzewing 


Galahs




Gull-billed Tern

 
 Little Black Cormorant





Little Corella



Major Mitchell Cockatoo





Sacred Kingfisher

Sharp-tailed Sandpipers



 Sunset with Corellas

Crows

Whistling Kite

 Zebra Finches






Enjoy your Bird-watching!

4 comments:

  1. Estupenda entrada con unas fotos muy bonitas.Saludos

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  2. Great range of species and great pics Richard, I enjoyed watching Rainbow Bee-eater from my hotel room in Port Douglas on my only visit to Australia, really enjoyable.

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  3. An incredible variety of birds!
    These Bee-eaters are really gorgeous!
    And what about Major Mitchels in flight!!
    WOW! congratulations Richard!

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  4. Amazing photos Richard. Fantastic stuff. You've got a Great Cormorant in there too!

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