American Golden plover

Last weekend with Iain and his parents we decided to go and have a look for the American Golden Plover that has been hanging around boat harbour.


Kookaburras


Giant wasp


A rare bird can bring out all sorts.


The one on the left is what all the fuss was about.

Bobbin Head

A few weeks ago Sarah was in town so with Adelle we went for a walk in Kuring Gai Chase national park.


Adelle

Yengo again

Went to the yengo yesterday with Adelle and managed to see a painted button quail as well as an extremely friendly lace monitor.

Painted Button-Quail


Lace monitor


Robin


Jacky lizard


Tree

Going south

A few weeks ago I went south to find some birds and temporarily escape Sydney's pollution.

Baza spotting

Well thanks to birding Aus we had a tip off on where a pair of Pacific Baza were nesting so with a near certain tick we decided to venture out.

Looking dodgy.


Pacific Baza


Would never stay still.


Wallaby


No trip to the royal would be complete without seeing a Lace Monitor.

Christmas 2008

I went down to Melbourne for Christmas to spend a week with my brother and his family.




Reese and soon to be sibling.


Lots of kangaroos only a few hundred metres from the house.

Lady Carrington Drive

Went for a walk to spot the flocks of Pacific Bazas that supposedly live on Lady Carrington Drive.
Did not see any Bazas but we did see a lot of other wildlife.


Flannel Flower Actinotus helianthi


Turtles


There were lots of monitors about, well at least the three that we saw.


Water dragon


Variegated Fairy-wren


An attempt at non-consensual mating by a Superb Lyrebird.


This one is actually in focus but you can't see the tail as well.

Reptile park

Adelle drove me to the reptile park on the weekend, it was hard to tell what was more entertaining the driving or the reptiles. Luckily Australia is reasonably flat so there were not too many hillstarts.


The mighty land mullet as magnificent as I had always imagined.


Thought I might have had a legitimate tick until I saw the sign for it on the outside of the enclosure.




Cape barren goose

Ubuntu

capertee

Some pictures from the capertee valley.
I did not take that many due to the rain.