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AUSTRALIAN BIRDS

On this page - just a few of the many birds seen in our small backyard in Adelaide

Sulphur Crested Cockatoo at our bird bath
 

  . . . . . . inspecting a banana normally taken by possums at night
 

. . . . and drinking from the fish pond fountain
  

Rainbow Lorikeets flock to the flowers in our tall Eucalyptus trees in the Spring
 
- and to our nectar feeder at other times of the year - joining other nectar eaters
 

 
 

New Holland Honey Eater
one of many who rapidly deplete our nectar feeder (see below)
 

 
  

A typical swarm of New Holland Honeyeaters at our nectar feeder
 

Little Brush Wattlebird
 

Brush Wattlebirds at the nectar feeder
 

Young Brush being given the brush-off by an elder
 

The Red Wattlebird chases the other birds off the nectar feeder - including the usually aggressive Noisy Miners
 

 

Red Capped Robin
 

Kookaburras on the upstairs balcony - inspecting our fish pond
 

Ducks visited our pond before we put wire netting over it
 

  

White Faced Heron used to take our fish before the wire netting was put on the pond
 

Mother Wagtail
 

Wagtail chicks just out of the nest before their first flight
 

Barbary Dove
 

Lace Neck dove, Barbary Dove and Crested Pigeon
 

A Pheasant drops in to inspect the dove's seed tray
 

Above and below - Noisy Miner at our bird bath
 

  
 

   

 

Noisy Miners at the nectar
 

Australian Magpie
 

Galah cockatoos
 

Australian Ibis in a local school ground
 

 

And at a nearby small wetland
 

 
More Birds:

Birds in Cleland National Park, near Adelaide, South Australia

Birds in Gorge Wildlife Park, near Adelaide, South Australia

Birds in the Adelaide Zoo

and special photographs of Australian Birds by Don Caldecott
 


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