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Two baby birds that are mostly feathered, except for their bald heads. They are in a fabric nest. One is shouting for food, which is activity they engage in approximately every 5 minutes.

Please enjoy my ugly gremlin babies. They are Noisy Friarbirds so this look isn’t really going to get much better. #ausbirds #wildliferehab

A bird with a chest back, white belly and black-capped head. It has a yellow eye and black bill, and it looks slightly alarmed. It is standing amongst reeds and other pond vegetation.

Nankeen Night-Heron showed up on our dam last week, which was very nice of since I got to record it in my #AussieBirdCount surveys. Doesn’t like having its photo taken, but I finally got it! #ausbirds

A cardboard box with a hole cut in the bottom. A child’s nose and glasses are visible peeking through the hole. On top of the box is a brown cuckoo-dove, and another stands in front of the box. Occasionally the doves slap each other (not pictured) which is hilarious, according to the box-dwellers.

My children have set up a box from which to spy on the brown cuckoo-doves. The cuckoo-doves are suspicious of the giggling box but not enough to pass up the offer of seeds.

A Latham’s Snipe, that is, by some miracle, not flying away so the only picture I get is a vague brown blur. It is wading through a grassy bit of wetland. Not pictured: the other four Latham’s Snipes I saw today, who all bailed out before I’d even lifted the camera.

Succeeded at my Snipe hunt today ✅
#ausbirds

A spiky little cutie pie in a towel.

An echidna curled up amongst leaves and grass, going nowhere fast.

Some releases are exciting and beautiful celebrations of freedom, as the animal flies/hops/runs away from us. Echidna releases are…. not like that. Safe travels little one! #wildliferehab #auswildlife

A small brown honeyeater with red cheeks in a tree full of red flowers. If you look closely you might also notice a Silvereye lurking in the background.

Female Scarlet Myzomela - they look so delicate. #ausbirds

This week we’ve been monitoring regent parrot breeding- look at this little cutie 😭🩵😇

A lair pair of black and white storks flying overhead.

A nondescript brown bird on a weathered log. It is a Rufous Songlark and it had a lot to say.

A brown bird on a wire. (Australian Pipit)

A cute little yellow bird on a branch. (Yellow thornbill)

A great day of birding for #OctoberBigDay - we finished with 86 species, 3 lifers for me, and a sunburn because I forgot to pack sunscreen.
#ausbirds #ebird

A Great Egret (big white leggy bird) attempting to land and failing. It is carrying a twig.

Ah yes, the elegant Great Egret. So graceful. #ausbirds

A mostly brown and grey fledgling with yellow feathers just starting to come in on it’s breast. It is perched on a stick with a green leafy background.

Scruffy little Eastern Yellow Robin fledgling ❤️ #ausbirds

A skink with very tiny legs and a beautiful yellow belly, held in a hand.

Found this cutie while gardening yesterday. A Three-toed Skink! 🦎#auswildlife #backyardwildlife

A black and white bird with a huge black bill and long orange legs, walking through long grass.

Black-necked Stork showed up at the local wetlands. Legs for daysssss #ausbirds

A Bar-tailed Godwit standing on a sandy tidal flat.

Hooray for migratory shorebird season starting 👏👏👏 #ausbirds

Wish I’d thought of that as a caption!

Did our spring Waterbug survey today. Please enjoy this video of the gills on this mayfly larva.

A tiny brown bird with a blue bib and a long wispy tail perched in a twiggy stem.

Gotcha! The Emu-wren decided to play nice today and let me take a picture. There were a pair actually, it was a great day for birding. #ausbirds #wildoz

They are a cat-sized carnivorous marsupial. Vulnerable species - seeing one in the wild is an incredible treat.

Oh these are wonderful! We don’t really have fences so I usually set my camera traps on animals trails. Mostly I get lots of brush turkeys, lyrebirds, wombats and wallabies. Quoll has been the bucket list animal!

The way they move is just amazing.

We've lived on this property for 13 years and I've been trying to catch a quoll on my trail cams basically since we moved in. Never seen one. But today one turned up and tried to break into the (fortunately secure) aviary. This is the most exciting thing ever. #wildoz #ausmammals

It started pouring with rain on our walk yesterday. Anyway fun fact turns out pelicans drink rainwater by just sitting there with their bills open. They even moved to align themselves with the direction the rain was coming in. So that's cool. #ausbirds #wildoz #pelican

An airborne brown eagle being pursued by a smaller white kite.

A large brown eagle being attacked by a smaller white kite.

A large brown eagle, looking up at a smaller white kite. The kite is screaming at the eagle.

A Wedge-tailed Eagle showed up at the wetlands yesterday. The resident pair of Black-shouldered Kites were very unhappy about it. #ausbirds #wildoz

Tawny frogmouth would be my guess too.

Yeah when I spotted this one I saw a dozen males but only two females, I do wonder how many more females were present but hiding too well for me to see.

A small parrot walking through the grass. He has a green head, yellow belly, turquoise wings and a barely visible red rump.

He does! Though personally I think a better name could have been chosen, since you don't see the red rump from most angles. (And the poor female gets saddled with a name for a feature she doesn't have.)

A brightly coloured parrot with a green and turquoise head, yellow belly and turquoise wings. He is eating yellow flower heads.

It’s amazing well these little guys camouflage in the grass. (Red-rumped Parrot) #ausbirds #wildoz

Oh these are pretty.

A bird with a mottled brown back, black and white streaked breast, chestnut head and white eyebrows. It is walking through grass with one foot raised and its tail flicked up. Reeds and yellow flowers are visible in the background.

The way rails flick their tails while foraging is the cutest. (Buff-banded Rail) #ausbirds #wildoz

A tiny bird with sky blue cheeks, a black bib, chestnut shoulders and brown wings. The top of his head is brown because he hasn’t finished moulting into his breeding plumage.

This shade of blue. 👌 Male Variegated Fairywren. #ausbirds #wildoz

I know it would be a terrible mistake but I can’t help wanting to bury my face in that tummy floof. It looks so soft.