Birds at My Place. Part 2

Ok, here is the rest of the bird life in our area. These are cattle egrets and, as their name suggests, they hang around with cattle as well as horses. I often see them in the paddock where the thoroughbred show jumper, owned by the guy in front of us, lives.

Babblers or Happy Family. These birds do babble and hang around in flocks, for all the world sounding as if they are discussing the day's goings on with each other. Babble, babble, babble!

Two types of ibis. The black ones (straw ibis) we get out here.

However, the white ibis are found in the city and suburbs where they are a nuisance because they dig in the garbage cans, strewing rubbish everywhere, looking for discarded burgers, fries, etc. The council have asked people not to feed them.

Blue Faced Honeyeater. A nectar eating bird, as it's name suggests.

The much maligned crow. I rather like crows, they're very intelligent birds and they eat the cane toads. That, in itself, is enough to endear them.

Noisy Miners or Mickey Miners. Very cheeky and aggressive birds. They hang around in groups and when I go out to hang my laundry out, about six or eight of them sit on the fence and go eeh, eeh, eeh at me, trying to frighten me away. However although they divebomb poor Oscar and the dogs and chase any other bird, they aren't dangerous to humans. Just very noisy!

Spurwinged Plover. Now these birds are really aggressive. It's their breeding season at the moment and there are heaps of them around. When Jane and I go for our morning walk, we have a very long driveway, and because these birds do dive at us, we have to walk down under an umbrella. If you look closely, you can see the spurs on their shoulders and if they rake you with those, you know all about it. We do not like these birds at all!

Magpie Lark or Peewees - because of their call, peewee, peewee!

Willie Wagtail. Like a fantail only bigger, they catch their food on the wing. Their fanlike tail gives them plenty of manoeuvrability.

Pale headed rosella - another seed eater. Pretty birds.

And last but not least, the Regent Bower Bird. I had to show you this one. We don't get them here but I have seen them in the wild on Mt Tamborine, where Lee lives. They are beautiful birds and their colour is so vivid, they look like splashes of sunshine on the wing.



Actually, until I started on this project, I never realised how many birds we had in our area. You may have noticed that I didn't include sparrows. That's because we don't get them here. They are everywhere in the city but not out here.

Hope you enjoyed this. How about I do a post on spiders next? We've got some interesting ones, big too! Of if you're a bit squeamish about spiders, I can show you snakes. I'm sure you'd just love to see them!! Lol!