Red-tailed Black Cockatoo, and some other local Alice Springs birds photos

Alice Springs experienced a dramatic change in weather on Saturday, it hailed. Very unusual for our area. there was a big build up of clouds and one of the cloud colours was a pinky colour, which I now suspect to have been the hail forming cloud (photo below). One change in the area after the rain was the plethora of birds that have suddenly appeared.

One of these was a beautiful female Red-tailed Black Cockatoo out at Simpsons Gap. There were a lot of other small birds around as well, lots of Thornbills and a first sighting for me this year - a Redthroat. Here are a selection of photos from the weekend.

Red-tailed Black Cockatoo 

Chestnut-rumped Thornbill

Mulga Parrot

Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater

Spotted Dove

White-plumed Honeyeater

Hail Cloud

Photos of Birds in the Backyard

There were lots of feathered backyard visitors today. Photos of some of them below. Those not with photos here included Budgerigars, Little Corellas, Galahs, Mistletoebirds, Magpie Larks, Whistling Kites, Fairy Martins and Grey-crowned Babblers.

Photos:

White-plumed Honeyeaters

Western Bowerbird

Spotted Turtle Dove

Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater

Yellow-throated Miner

Australian Ringneck Parrot

Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike

Sacred Kingfisher

Birds of Prey, Fairy Wren and a Dove

Birds of Prey still dominate the skies near Alice Springs. Below are a few: Whistling Kite feeding on the wing, a Nankeen Kestrel and a Black-shouldered Kite:

And this female Fairy-wren, I think it was a White-winged fairy-wren, came up close for a look at this stranger in its area:

And finally, this spotted turtle dove decided our chook pen was a great place to get a feed. We seem to be a haven for these birds, and I decided to take a close up: