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The Estate
head gardener
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 Posted - 24/11/2008 : 06:26:23
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WOW Faye you have a great variety of bird life 
My basic weeding rule: if they grow in rows they're flowers;
if they don't they're weeds.
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Faye
assistant gardener
Australia
202 Posts |
Posted - 24/11/2008 : 20:52:20
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Spangled Drongo - they have a beautiful song.
Faye Hapless Garden Girl |
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Pamela
head gardener
Australia
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Posted - 25/11/2008 : 06:31:57
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I love the photo of the sunbird in her nest - incredible photo and a gorgeous bird!
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The Estate
head gardener
Australia
3676 Posts |
Posted - 25/11/2008 : 07:13:40
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So that is where the slang term 'drongo' comes from 
My basic weeding rule: if they grow in rows they're flowers;
if they don't they're weeds.
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Gail
garden sage
Australia
7707 Posts |
Posted - 25/11/2008 : 08:11:48
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Love the spangled drongos. They visit here occasionally on their migrations. Normally they only stay for a few weeks but this year they were here for several months. I love watching their acrobatics when chasing insects.
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing not to use it in a fruit salad.
A ounce of common sense is worth more than a ton of intelligence.
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Faye
assistant gardener
Australia
202 Posts |
Posted - 25/11/2008 : 09:45:35
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Yes Gail, the drongos are such clowns and love the sprinkler. They get so drenched that when they try to fly off they have a struggle. The friar birds are much the same. All the tiny birds flit about like mad things and slide down the leaves to get coated by the drops. You can spend a long time watching their antics. The wompoos are very shy and sit above all the commotion waiting for a quiet time to land on the bird bath. They have a drink by siphoning the water up like drinking from a straw - very different way of drinking but we never see them have a bath or get soaked. They are beautiful when they fly off as you get a flash of all their colours.
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Mary-Anne
garden sage
Australia
10809 Posts |
Posted - 25/11/2008 : 16:59:32
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| Great pic Faye I love that bird too, none around here though.. |
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Faye
assistant gardener
Australia
202 Posts |
Posted - 06/12/2008 : 12:23:53
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Here are a few more pictures of birds on our block. Some are not very well exposed as I don't have a 'bird' camera but they show you the bird OK.
Male and Female Sunbirds looking for cobwebs on the window to build their new nest.
In the nest.
A Sulpha Crested Cockatoo. I saw him first hidding in the leaves, then he climbed the tree and I got these pics. He didn't belong in the rainforest. He was very ruffled and looked as if he had an injured wing. We found him dead on the forest floor the next morning. I think he must have been attacked by dogs that sometimes get about in packs. It was sad to see.
Orange footed scrub fowls again but this time up a tree!
Rainbow lorikeet - very common in Cooktown - during mango madness season they eat fermented mangos and stagger about 'drunk'! Also very noisey birds en mass!
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Faye
"Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, and little fleas have lesser fleas and so ad infinitum." DeMorgan
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Mary-Anne
garden sage
Australia
10809 Posts |
Posted - 06/12/2008 : 12:36:30
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So many interesting ones there Faye and pretty colours too..
Friends are the flowers in the garden of life
Love Your Enemies... It Will Drive Them Nuts |
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The Estate
head gardener
Australia
3676 Posts |
Posted - 06/12/2008 : 12:45:54
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 the sun birds are gorgeous, we dont get them down here  and the ones in the tree climbing are funny
My basic weeding rule: if they grow in rows they're flowers;
if they don't they're weeds.
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Faye
assistant gardener
Australia
202 Posts |
Posted - 06/12/2008 : 15:52:31
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This is a series of pics of a Noisy Pitta bird that flew into out glass door and died instantly poor thing. They aren't a rare bird but are very shy. We looked up the internet for people wanting bird carcass' and found Townsville Museum was putting in a rainforest display. They wanted birds to taxidermy. We then found a person in Cooktown who used to work for the museum and was travelling down. She transported frozen specimens so she took out pitta down.
At least this bird is now displaying its beautiful plumage to an appreciative audience.
Faye
"Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, and little fleas have lesser fleas and so ad infinitum." DeMorgan
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Gail
garden sage
Australia
7707 Posts |
Posted - 06/12/2008 : 16:32:11
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You have some very pretty birds. Shame about the pitta bird. We get a few who hit our lounge room windows too but so far most have just stunned themselves and take off again after a couple of minutes.
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing not to use it in a fruit salad.
A ounce of common sense is worth more than a ton of intelligence.
Gail, near Gympie, Qld |
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Faye
assistant gardener
Australia
202 Posts |
Posted - 06/12/2008 : 17:26:54
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This is one that hit the window and survived. Mum will know the breed.
Faye
"Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, and little fleas have lesser fleas and so ad infinitum." DeMorgan
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pitta
head gardener
Australia
1209 Posts |
Posted - 06/12/2008 : 18:06:13
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Juvenile Rufous Fantail .Pitta.
If you want to live and thrive, let the spider run alive.
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Faye
assistant gardener
Australia
202 Posts |
Posted - 06/12/2008 : 19:20:37
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More of our birds!
 
 
Faye
"Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, and little fleas have lesser fleas and so ad infinitum." DeMorgan
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