Sighting and photos (c) penelope.
Habitat - Near a natural water source
Additional comments? - Kength of neck similar to body length suggest this is an intermediate egret. Found in long, dry grass on the Oxley Creek Common.
How many? - 1
Additional comments? - Large white egret fishing in one of the small lakes at UQ in the late afternoon.
How many? - 1
Habitat - Nature Reserve
How many? - 1
Nest present - No
Behavior - Feeding
Field Notes - Three feeding. seen them around occasionally
Additional comments? - does ripping the top off of a gum tree count as resting behaviour? 😁
How many? - ten
Habitat - Backyard
Nest present - No
Behavior - Resting
Female bird; not sure which species ( three - Superb, Variegated and Red-backed - are present in this locality).
I only got photos of one; but there were several others present, moving along both banks of the creek in this area; I could hear them and caught occasional glimpses. I have seen and photographed fairywrens in this little pocket (near Geebung bowls club) previously; oddly enough I have never ever seen or heard them in Geebong Park which is only a very short distance away, upstream, nor in Rainbow Lorikeet Park which is a bit further off, upstream again. They don't seem to cross Robinson Road southward.
Heard calling, and then seen in flight, moving east. Photos are in reverse order: first photo in set here is the last one taken, second is the second one taken, final photo (showing landscape context, but the bird is visible) was the first one I took.
thought might be worth putting up pix of seals with shark bites incase it maybe corresponds with shark sightings
thought might be worth putting up pix of seals with shark bites incase it maybe corresponds with shark sightings
Sighting and photos (c) tiger3.
Sighting and photos (c) fyreluk.
Sighting and photos (c) charliepuggins.