#Blue-king Kookaburra

[feather-bone]

Laughing kookaburra! Merry merry King of the bush! At up to 19oz, they’re the largest of the kingfishers. They’re known best for their laughing call! Listen to one from the Cincinnati zoo below.

[ID: an illustration of a white and brown bird with a large beak and orangish striped tail sitting on a branch. It has iridescent blue areas on some of its wing covert feathers. The illustrations is followed by a video of a kookaburra calling. End.]

[mosticonicbirdcallbracket]

MOST ICONIC BIRD CALL BRACKET: ROUND TWO: WILD TURKEY vs. KOOKABURRA

IN THE BLUE CORNER, we have a guest like no other. from forests across north america, weighing in at 11kg/24lbs, this is the WILD TURKEY!

this fearless fowl is ready to take on any challenger that comes its way. you can hear that thunderous gobble coming in from up to a mile away - truly a force to be reckoned with. that fearsome gobble is remarkable enough to earn male turkeys the colloquial nickname of "gobbler." get ready, because tonight, we're in for a wild ride. let the feathers fly and the fight begin!

IN THE RED CORNER, we have a featherweight clash that's going to have you on the edge of your seats! we have the king of the australian outback, the KOOKABURRA!

known for its maniacal laughter, this bird may seem like a jokester. but make no mistake, it's all business in the ring. with its unique call that echoes through the bush, the kookaburra is ready to take on all comers and show the world why it's the undisputed ruler of the skies. so sit back, relax, and get ready for the wildest, most feather-ruffling event of the year!

[kandidandi]

Hawwo i noticed u are a fellow birb enthusiast, share with me ur favorite bird facts & also also also ur favorite birb(s) (mine are budgies, barn owls, cockatoos, and also falcons)

oh sweet anon you have no idea the can of worms you've just opened

OKAY SO

my favourite birds are

-kookaburras (a very shy bird, you dont see them in large flocks like cockatoos, only kookaburras that are used to humans will get close, the others sit in trees and laugh at you lolol)

-magpies! (you can tell the gender of the magpie by the white on the back of their neck! if it's pure white its male and if its more gray its a female!! this one right here is female :>! (you can't tell the gender for juveniles)

-willy wagtails (they're called that cuz they wag their tails!!!)

-blue-faced honeyeater (these fellas will eat sugar out of your hand! they have really long blue tounges hehehe)

-cockatoos aswell!!! i really like the sulfur crested cockatoo cuz its the most common here lolol they're very loud when theres over a hundred of them in one place

-king parrots (theres this place where you can go feed them! and they like to land on you lolol i've had at least 3 on me at once it was horrifying and amazing (their talons are very sharp))

heres a bonus picture of a guy covered in them awawwaa

[kerestheghost]

Can you coin a gender related to being a drag king and a laughing kookaburra? ^^

DragKingKook

(The red and green flag)

A gender related to being a drag king and a laughing kookaburra, a kookaburra that is a drag king and / or a drag kind that is resembeling a kookaburra. Coined by me.

DragQueenKook

(The green and blue flag)

A gender related to being a drag queen and laughing kookaburra, a kookaburra that is a drag queen and / or a drag queen that is resembeling a kookaburra. Coined by me.

[ID: DragKingKook, from top to bottom the colors are a kings red, an orange, a yellow, a very light yellow-green, an olive green, a forest green and a dark green. In the middle is a kookaburra.

DragQueenKook, from top to bottom the colors are a dark green, a forest green, an olive green, a very light turquoise, a cyan, a medium blue and a queens blue. In the middle is a kookaburra. ID end]

[matrose]

Top five mushrooms or top five birds

thank youuu 🥰🥰 im no expert on mushrooms…

but one i really like (simply because its such a pretty blue) is the mycena interrupta, also called pixies parasol!!

five of my favorite birds so cute!! first is the corn crake, whose german name translates to quail king !! i had a really cute childrens book about quail kings i think, so i remember them really fondly and also i just love their name… they were called quail kings because when they hunted quails en masse during the middle ages, sometimes a corn crake would slip in with the quails and since they looked much alike, except the corn crake being a bit bigger, they would call them quail kings…

then, the european robin !! i just think they look so pretty, i love that theyre just literally round, and its THE winter bird for me. when i think of a redbreasted robin, i picture him sitting on a snowy branch in a snowy forest surrounding a frozen lake 🌨❤️

then the eurasian jay!! i love their blue feathers and yes i am incredibly biased towards the color blue but !!!!!! ah!!!!! blue feathers… i love seeing them in forests & a while ago i found a small blue jay feather with my mom.. supposedly they bring luck! 💙

fourth the common kingfisher!! on german called ice bird…i love how he looks, so beautiful, and ive seen one three times… the first time with my dad who would not believe me that really was a kingfisher, second by myself, at the same pond, and the third when i was on a walk with my parents but neither of them saw the bird :(( idk hes a special bird to me…

green woodpecker 🥰 he looks really silly and i hear his call a lot in the spring time, which is ALSO really silly and which i love a lot. it sounds a bit like laughter! not as bad as a kookaburra, but still a noise that makes you go huh if you dont know it!!

[hyperbolicgrinch]

tagged by @king-layney and @hotdogsngiggles forever ago

rules: answer 17 questions and tag 17 people you want to get to know better!

nickname: jazie/jazy 

zodiac sign: aquarius 

height: 165cm

hogwarts house: gryffindor 

last thing I googled: 'how to teach race horses to pee on command' hmmm yeah, feel like that needs context but i ain't got the time

favourite musician: hmmmmmmmm dunno

song stuck in my head: gasoline - halsey

followers: uhhh 2000 something (hello bots and porn blogs my unbeloved)

following: i think it's a bonkers amount like in the 4000s which is just Insane and is probably why i never see my mutuals stuff come up on my dash 🥲

amount of sleep: guys guys guys guys i actually got some last night and it's amazing

what are you wearing? 101 Dalmatians (HELP GIRL THESE DALMATIANS ARE TRYNA KILL ME) pyjama pants with a Saddle Club pjs top

lucky numbers: 15?

dream job: firefighter?

dream trip: pretty much anywhere at the moment tbh

favourite instruments: uhhh drums are cool

languages: listen. OBSESSED with languages but only know English and like a smidge of Spanish and liikkee the smallest possible amount of Mandarin

favourite songs: ah shit. some I'm very much in love with are:

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favourite authors: jfc i've just forgotten any writer ever, but uh, um Terry Pratchett, Patrick Ness, Maggie Stiefvater, Shaun Tan, Joe Abercrombie, Robin McKinley, Priest

favourite animal sound: neighing or whining or nickering or anything horse involved but honestly any and all animal sounds in general are fantastic and I will loose my mind over all of them, like! Whales! Kookaburras! Zebras! Curlews! Everything's fucking nuts, man, and I'm here for it

random fact: about me? or just in general? i just read that the length of the small intestine is the same width of a dressage arena, so you can now know that with me

aesthetic: uhhhh well i'm a real simp for like that look you get when historical/cultural and more contemporary/modern kinda start mixing, but pfft not sure if that's an aesthetic so to say

absolutely no pressure tagging @ninjasamantha @onearthasitis @black-rabbit-99 @deep-sky-blue @butterfliesandresistance @newshytumbler

[lovemesomesurveys]

THIS OR THAT! CEREALS! Froot Loops or Cinnamon Toast Crunch Lucky Charms or Frosted Mini Wheats Cheerios or Chex Honey Bunches Oats or Honey Nut Cheerios Rice Chex or Raisin Brand Honey Smacks or Reese's Puffs Rice Krispies or Great Grains French Toast Crunch or Cap'n Crunch Oatmeal Crisp or Cookie Crisp Kix or Eggo Cinnamon Toast Special K or Corn Flakes Frosted Mini Wheats (Strawberry Delight) or Apple Jacks Cocoa Krispies or Frosted Flakes Oreo O's or Corn Pops Honeycomb or Fruity Fruits Croque Graham Dore or Croque Canelle Nesquick or Sugar-Crisp Trix or Life Smorz or Fruity Pebbles Cocoa Pebbles or Cocoa Puffs All Bran or Weet-Bix Nestle Milo or Coco Pops Rice Bubbles or Crunchy Nut Nutri-Grain or Sultana Bran Cheerios or Frosties

DISNEY MOVIES! Snow White and The Seven Dwarf's or Pinocchio Dumbo or Bambi Cinderella or Alice In Wonderland Peter Pan or Sleeping Beauty Lady and The Tramp or The Sword In The Stone One Hundred and One Dalmatians or Robin Hood The Jungle Book or The Aristocats The Many Adventures of Winnie The Pooh or The Rescuers The Fox and The Hound or The Black Couldron The Great Mouse Detective or Oliver & Company The Little Mermaid or Ducktales: Treasure of the Lost Lamp Beauty and The Beast or A Goofy Movie Aladdin or Return To Never Land Pocahontas or Mulan The Lion King or Coco Monsters Inc. or The Emperors New Groove Toy Story or Toy Story 2 A Bug's Life or Zootopia Cars or Cars 3 Tarzan or Doug's First Movie The Tigger Movie or Treasure Planet Lilo and Stitch or Brave Atlantis: The Lost Empire or Teacher's Pet The Jungle Book 2 or Bolt Piglet's Big Movie or Planes Brother Bear or Home On The Range Finding Nemo or Finding Dory The Incredibles or The Wild Pooh's Heffalump Movie or Meet The Robinsons The Nightmare Before Christmas or Inside Out Frozen or Frozen 2 The Princess and The Frog or Big Hero 6 Up or Tangled Frankenweenie or Wreck It Ralph Monsters University or Moana The Good Dinosaur or Valiant Wall-E or Ratatouille Fantasia or Mary Poppins Fantasia 2000 or The Rescuer's Down Under Toy Story 3 or Hercules Luca or The Jungle Cruise Cruella or Cinderella 2 Winnie The Pooh or The Hunchback Of Notre Dame The Lion King ll or Tinkerbell  James and The Giant Peach or Prince Charming

NICKELODEON SHOWS!

Angry Beavers or Catdog Hey Arnold or Jimmy Neutron Ren and Stimpy or Rocko's Modern Life Spongebob Square Pants or Avatar The Last Airbender Fairly Odd Parents or As Told By Ginger Rugrats or Aahh Real Monsters Clarissa Explains It All or The Amanda Show H2O or I-Carly Kenan and Kel or Drake and Josh Rugrats All Grown Up or The Wild Thornberrys Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide or The Backyardigans Zoey 101 or Danny Phantom Blues Clues or Big Time Rush Franklin or The Penguins of Madagascar My Life as a Teenage Robot or All That Invader Zim or Are You Afraid Of The Dark The Naked Brothers Band or Rocket Power Dora The Explorer or Go Diego, Go! TV SERIES/SHOWS The Walking Dead or Lucifer Riverdale or Supergirl American Horror Story or Greys Anatomy American Horror Stories or Supernatural Home and Away or Gilmore Girls Two and A Half Men or Nine Perfect Strangers The Big Bang Theory or Young Sheldon Friends or The Real Housewives of New York City Good Girls or The White Lotus Trinkets or Dead To Me Sex and The City or The Carrie Diaries The Hills or The City The Good Place or Awkward Revenge or Workin' Moms The 100 or I-Zombie Santa Clarita Diet or Happy Endings Girls or Love Life Younger or Dollface Two Broke Girls or New Girl Fear The Walking Dead or Top Gear Looking or A Teacher Bob's Burgers or Family Guy American Dad or King Of The Hill The Simpsons or Futurama Outer Banks or Sex Life NEVERTHELESS or A-Typical The News or Late Night Talk Shows Never Have I Ever or Ginny and Georgia Superstore or Suits 13 Reasons Why or Shameless The Inbetweeners or Friday Night Dinner My Mad Fat Diary or White Gold Outlander or Too Hot To Handle ANIMALS! Lion or Leopard Tiger or Buffalo Antelope or Zebra Ostrich or Emu Giraffe or Cheetah African Wild Dog or Hyena White Rhino or Black Rhino Elephant or Hippopotamus Butterfly or Stick Insect Cat or Dog Bunny or Guineapig Chicken or Duck Goat or Lamb Lyrebird or Pigeon Macaw or Toucan Horse or Donkey Turkey or Rooster Kookaburra or Sulphur Crested Cockatoo Scorpion or Cobra Water Dragon or Tortoise African Grey Parrot or Amazon Parrot Meerkat or Tapir Chimpanzee or Gorilla Lorikeet or Galah Tasmian Devils or Dingoes Sealion or Stingray Alpaca or Deer Little Penguin or King Penguin Quokka or Wallaby Echidna or Mandrill Baboon or Peacock Pelican or Barn Owl Bilby or Sloth Black Bear or Polar Bear Dolphin or Humpback Whale Starfish or Clown Fish Shark or Orca COLOURS! Pink or Blue Green or Yellow Brown or Black White or Grey Green or Purple Orange or Blue Pink or Purple Black or Red Yellow or Red Orange or Pink White or Purple Grey or Blue Blue or Purple Pink or White GAMES! Donkey Kong or Super Mario Yoshi's Island or Mario Party Mario Kart or Super Smash Bros Pokemon Let's Go Eevee or Pokemon Let's Go Pikachu The Legend of Zelda or Skyrim Minecraft or Fortnite Crash Bandicoot or Croc Spyro or PacMan Tetris or Space Invaders Grand Theft Auto or Street Fighter ll Animal Crossing or Overcooked Cooking Mama or Stardew Valley Just Dance or Harvest Moon Ring Fit or Snipper Clips

[pwlanier]

CASED TAXIDERMY DISPLAY OF RARE AUSTRALIAN BIRDS, MOUNTED BY JAMES GARDNER

CIRCA 1880

comprising thirteen examples mounted upon branches, including a red-capped robin, a regent bowerbird, an Australian king parrot, a red-headed honeyeater, a blue-winged kookaburra and other species, in a glazed and painted case, with a paper label to both the interior and verso

Lyon and Turnbull

[lindoig6]

More trivia

Second-rate images

I mentioned that the images in my blog were often not my best image of the particular species. The reason for this was probably laziness.  I was eager to launch the blog so I used some of the photos that I accumulated in a particular folder a year or two ago.  That folder contained many of the bird photos I had taken in the previous 2-3 years – but were specifically collected to indicate features of the species that might aid identification: often poor photos, but indicative of the features I was trying to portray rather than great pics of the birds themselves.

I have subsequently taken a lot more photos, some of which are better representations of those features as well as of many species I had been unable to include in my original collection.  I will try to update my collection in the next month or so and where appropriate, replace some of the poorer images with better ones if I find them.

Superb Fairy-wren (Malurus cyaneus) - non-breeding male

The sound of birds

We all love birdsong and everyone probably has a favourite bird whose song or call evokes some special memories or feelings.  I have several.

Many people love the carolling of the Magpie or the cackle of the Laughing Kookaburra (perhaps not so much the maniacal screech of the Blue-winged Kookaburra).  For me, two of my favourites are the Grey and Pied Butcherbirds. They seem to emit such pure tones when they call from the top of a building or the upmost twig of a dead tree.  Their song is eerily spine-tingling and carries a long way, especially in cooler weather (at least it seems that way to me).  Their carolling is louder and more diverse than a Magpie’s and evokes a sense of open space and peaceful contentment in me.

I also love the Pied Currawong, but perhaps for different reasons.  Their calls are also almost pure tones and carry a long way, often echoing around a little, making the call slightly more complex.  I used to hear them in Canberra, but the first time I really noticed their beauty was at Katoomba in the Blue Mountains where their calls resounded across the Megalong Valley from dawn until after dusk.  They were also a feature of many of my wonderful times in Sydney and whenever I hear one, it transports me back to some of the best times of my life. Their calls are very evocative and trigger reminiscences of special times and places of excitement and exoticism – all very emotional for me.

The Common Blackbird is also a wonderful songster.  It sits atop the highest point in its territory, whether in the city or the bush, and sings its heart out just before dark.  It is another very musical bird with a range of songs that evoke special feelings of quiet, calm and gentleness, even melancholy, at the end of day.

In contrast to the musicality of these birds, I discovered two birds when I was in Sydney that engender quite different feelings.  I recall hearing what sounded like a baby in distress crying time and time again over almost 2 days, but I couldn’t track the poor child down.  Then when we were eating a takeaway in the El Alamein Gardens in Kings Cross, I heard it again – in the tree above us.  A local identified it for us as an Eastern Koel.  We have subsequently seen both males and females on a few occasions, but didn’t realise that they sometimes migrated south into Victoria – until one Sunday morning when I was introducing a small group of seniors to birding in the Royal Botanic Gardens.  Out of the blue (literally), Heather and I heard a distinctive call and both immediately said ‘That’s a Koel’.  Sure enough, very high in the clear blue sky, a male Koel flew from west to east across the Gardens and disappeared from sight – a wonderful and quite unexpected lifer for all in the group (except Heather and me).

Another very distinctive, somewhat raucous call is emitted by the Channel-billed Cuckoo.  The first time we saw and heard them was when we alighted from the train to take a boat trip up the Hawkesbury River from Brooklyn. Just as we were leaving, the surrounding trees came alive with several shrieking birds, chasing each other from tree to tree and shattering the silence with the most dramatic calls. They are very distinctive large birds and they were instant lifers for us, but their call is so distinctive that we have since identified them several times from at least 2 or 3 kilometres away across the Harbour.  We have heard their call, recognised it immediately, and found the birds quite quickly with our binoculars despite them being such a long way away.

[rivbike]

We’re closed for the 4th of July...

and back to our regular hours on Friday from 8am-4pm and Saturday 10am-4pm.

Here is a big honkin’ Back In Stock list to keep you buys in the meantime.

-Roman

bells: -Hammer-strike black brass and chrome brass -Road Brake Lever mini-Bell, brass spring -Bell with Spring Striker, all metals

brooks saddles: -B17 classic in black, blue, honey -B17S classic in honey -B17 Special in black, antique brown -B67 in antique brown, honey-flyer, honey

-aardvark saddle cover

Baskets: -Huge and Medium

Mirrors: -EVT helmet mirror -german handlebar mirror

King stainless steel Cages: -Iris -Regular Grips: -Newbaum cotton bar tape in Black and Bright Blue -ESI grips in Black and Grey

Drivetrain: -Dura Ace 9s bar end shifters -XT triple front derailleur -Shimano 9 Speed 12-36t Cassette -chainrings 110 bcd ----34t ----44t ----46t

Shimano Brakes: -CX50 canti brakes -Deore V brakes in black and silver

Brakes: -Tektro R559 Long-Reach Caliper recessed allen brakes -Tektro R559 Long-Reach Caliper nutted brakes -Tektro Fork Mounted Cable Hanger -Tektro RRL road brake levers - Black Hoods AND Drillium and Gum Hoods -KoolStop 40mm Shorty Pads and Shoes

-tanaka waterbottle cage

Locks: -Abus Bordo Lite Mini folding -Ottolock, flash green

Clothes: -nitto cycling cap, celeste -nitto t-shirts -summer gloves- med, XL, XXXL -kookaburra wash

Tools: -Park Bottom Bracket Lockring Wrench (hcw-5) -Park Bottom Bracket Fixed Cup/Pin Spanner (hcw-4) -Park Bottom Bracketpin Pin Spanner in green (SPA-1) -Pedal Spikes

-T9 boeshield in a bottle

-brass presta to schraeder adapter

-Pletscher Touring Kickstand

Reflective Things: -big triangle -mini triangle -riv ankle reflector -wheel reflector

Camping ‘n Cooking: -Trangia Big and Small Cooksets -Trangia alu bento box

Sunblocks and Soaps -Zoca Lotion Reef-Safe Sunscreen, stick style -Dermatone z-cote mini-Tub -Peppermint Goat Soap

[jontycrane]

Port Moresby Nature Park

Port Moresby Nature Park

Understandably one of the most popular places in Port Moresby, the Nature Park is the best (or at least the easiest and cheapest by some margin) way to see the incredible native animals of Papua New Guinea up close.

The first enclosure was a converted WW2 structure relocated from downtown Port Moresby. It was home to some of the most colourful birds in the park, such as the Eclectus Parrot,…

[helennias]

We had a really peaceful and enjoyable weekend staying at our friend’s apartment in Greenwich. There are so many birds and if you’re lucky and leave some treats out for them they will come and pay you a closer visit!

Here are some snaps of the lorikeets (who seemed fascinated by the barbeque), a pair of king parrots who cooed gently as they ate the sunflower seeds I left for them, and a magpie who watched me very carefully then decided it didn’t fancy the mandarin segment!

There are also lots of kookaburras, at least one sulphur crested cockatoo, and some other parrots with blue/purple wings, a red head and yellow neck.

[mongoose232323]

Stop The Donald Trump Steal!!

.

Absolutely Hilarious ..

As He Slowly Goes Broke Donald Trump And

Sexual Harasser Bill O’Reilly Will Both Go On

A Speaking Tour In December With Tickets On

Sale Now.

This Is Conflicts With QAnon’s Latest Conspiracy

That Donald Trump Will Be Reinstated As

President In August.

From The Article

The latest? They can’t imagine why Donald Trump is promoting a December tour with Bill O’Reilly when he’s supposed to be back in the White House in August and O’Reilly is presumably scheduled for a series of painful face-splotchectomies.

Newsweek:

QAnon supporters have acted with dismay and confusion after Donald Trump announced the December dates of his upcoming speaking tour with Bill O'Reilly, which coincides with when he is meant to have already been reinstated as president.[…]

The announcement was shared by a number of popular QAnon telegram accounts, one of which has nearly 75,000 subscribers on the encrypted messaging service app.

Supporters of the radical movement expressed concerns that Trump going on a speaking tour later this year surely means that he will not be returning as president—a false claim they have continued to believe since he lost the 2020 election more than seven months ago.

I really wonder what these people will do when Sept. 1 comes around and Trump is still ensconced, Taft-like, in his toilet. How many times can they move the goalposts before they—like the QAnon people themselves—are on another planet?

According to the announcement, Trump and O’Reilly have several December dates scheduled in Florida and Texas. But if Trump really thinks he’ll be back by then—which has been widely reported to be the case—then why is he fixin’ to go on tour with Pile O’Bile-y?

Newsweek collected several alarmed responses from QAnon cultists posting on Telegram about this vexing bait-and-switch.

A sampling:

"OK I GUESS MY QUESTION IS TRUMP COMING BACK? WHY WOULD HE BE DOING A TOUR THRU THE END OF THE YEAR WITH O'REILLY. HMMMMMMMMM SOMETHING DOESN'T FEEL RIGHT?” —Telegram user Peace Lilly

"So nothing will happen until December?" —Tina N.

"Man I sure hope we don't have to wait that long before you're back in office." —Jack Miller

"So basically the August thing is a bunch of bull because a reinstated President doesn't go on tour.” —Angela Baldwin

Oh, Angela Baldwin, you are sharp. I imagine that’s exactly how Archimedes felt just before shouting “Eureka!”

Of course, many QAnoners and other Trumpy dead-enders are hanging their hopes on either Pillow Man Mike Lindell’s barmy assurances or the Arizona fraudit, which they believe will touch off a domino effect wherein one blue state after another falls back into Donald Trump’s column. Because there’s zero chance that the most vulgar, deceitful man on the planet—a man who never polled over 50% approval at any time during his presidency—could have possibly lost a national election.

Of course, some QAnoners appeared to be hedging their bets: "It's only a few dates close together...it could be done if it works out like it should...could cancel....but yup..kinda a gut punch statement," one wrote. "But we are in an information war, so who the hell knows."

Who the hell knows? Not you, that’s for sure. But most of us do, oddly enough—because we’re not getting our information from rando kookaburras on Telegram.

And, yes, it’s possible that Trump will cancel his serial sexual harasser tour with O’Reilly, but not because he’ll be president. It’ll be because his muscles have taken on the texture of Gerber’s mashed pears and he can’t get through the auditorium doors without a crowbar and a can of Crisco.

Or maybe—just maybe—he’ll be defending himself in court. A man can dream, right?

It made comedian Sarah Silverman say “THIS IS FUCKING BRILLIANT” and prompted author Stephen King to shout “Pulitzer Prize!!!” (on Twitter, that is). What is it? The viral letter that launched four hilarious Trump-trolling books. Get them all, including the finale, Goodbye, Asshat: 101 Farewell Letters to Donald Trump, at this link. Just $12.96 for the pack of 4!

https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2021/6/20/2036182/-Trump-s-tour-with-Bill-O-Reilly-conflicts-with-August-reinstatement-theory-driving-QAnons-bonkers

[timjeffsart]

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[malleedesign]

New Post has been published on http://malleedesign.com.au/photo-competition-entries-and-winner/

Photo Competition Entries and Winner!

Our photo competition is finished and we’ve been absolutely blown away by all our entries. The submissions represent so many different birds and locations across Australia that we couldn’t resist putting them all in one blog post with the winner! Thank you to everyone who sent photos in to us – they have been the source of much excitement and wonder over the last month and for those who have jumped on the bird photography bandwagon Birdlife has their Australian Photography Competition opening on the 28th May, which is another great opportunity to share beautiful photos of your birds.

The winning shot *drumroll* is of this captivating honeyeater in flight by Robyn Bowman. It’s a Brown Honeyeater taking off from her dish near Gympie, Queensland, with tiny droplets of water exploding around it. The sparkling lights in the garden background and wingbeat of the free flying bird really make this photo something special. We have come back to gaze at it again and again and want to say a big thank you and congratulations Robyn! The Brown Honeyeater is sometimes considered a plain and uninteresting bird, but its quiet, courageous nature shines through here.

We had plenty of other striking and stunning submissions, which are presented below. The first are John Harris’s shots of a White-Headed Pigeon and Striped Marsh Frog using his birdbath in Woombye, QLD. The white of the pigeon stands out like a beacon in front of the lush forest background while the Marsh frog blends almost perfectly with the copper of the dish as it perches on a piece of broken ceramic. Both are great quality images, and it was fantastic to see the range of wildlife coming to visit his dish.

Next are Adele Noble’s female Fairy Wrens, Weebill and a Yellow-faced Honeyeater that love her ground-level dish. The Wrens in the first image seem to be enjoying a group splash, and we often see Fairy Wren females visiting birdbaths together (while the males seem to travel alone and can be very tricky to capture!). It’s nice to see natives growing in her garden, which will encourage more native birds into the area too. The Correa behind the dish is good shelter for the small birds to hide in and there’s a lovely thick carpet of Myoporum establishing to the left hand side.

Brad Decent sent us a photo and video (below) of a what looks like a Swamp Wallaby using a dish on his rural property, something we’ve suspected but never seen happen in a dish before! It’s a stunner, the Wallaby looking up between sips to scan the landscape. We love to see other animals using the birdbaths and camera traps are great for capturing otherwise unseen use waterbowls.

Another photo of a Wallaby came to use from Jo-Anne Pittman in Adelaide Hills, its expression gentle and mesmerising. She also captured a confident Currawong and some Adelaide Rosellas splashing about in her dish that backs onto some beautiful bushland. The Adelaide Rosella are a race of Crimson Rosella, which has several colour variants across its range so it was exciting to see these ones that we’ve never encountered before.

Birdbaths on balconies are often underrated so we were delighted to receive these images from Erica Nathan in Hobart. Her large birdbath, surrounded by pot plants looks lovely in the afternoon light and those Sulphur-crested Cockatoos are not afraid to land on it! Doesn’t the one in flight look like batman?!

Sulphur-crested Cockies are suburban kings that occur in all Australia’s major cities, Kathy Lack on the Gold Coast, QLD, also got some lovely photos of them. She captured some Magpies too (seen below) and has a gorgeous rust-red tree stump that she’s mounted her birdbath on.

From Lesley and Paul Herbet in the lower Blue Mountains we recieved this photo of their Gerygones who visit them often. They hop to and from the Westringia behind the dish in between baths and drinks. It’s another smart placement of a birdbath near the shrubbery of the garden so that birds can flit in between them.

One of the photos we really love is this closeup of a Magpie Lark preening, sent in by Maree Davison in Lake Macquarie. You can even see the fluffy white down it’s pulling out from under the wing as it cleans its feathers after a bath. In her second photo the characteristically inquisitive eye of a Magpie stares up towards the camera (they can recognise different human faces), and in the final shot two wattlebirds perch on the edge of her dish surrounded by natives, the fluffy one (on the left) certainly looks like its been for a swim!

This Magpie-lark in Mark Forth’s photograph is having a paddle. Our dishes are designed so that birds can walk into them from the edge of the dish, which is exactly what his Magpie-Lark is doing.

Hiding behind the spiky leaves of a Xanthorrhoea is a Kookaburra in Michelle McAuslan’s Bondi garden. We love how the dish emerges out of the bracken ferns planted underneath and see that she also gets Magpies and Currawongs visiting as seen in the photos below.

Although not a Mallee Dish, Louise Tucker sent us this photograph of one of our favourite local birds – a Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo. Yellow-tails feed on and are often seen in Banksia trees such as the one behind Lousie’s dish, so it’s not surprising he/she turned up at her birdbath. Small flocks of Yellow-tails often move between flowering trees throughout the day and have beaks that can break into the hard Banksia cones.

Sue Kelly in Federal, NSW, photographed a vibrant party of Rainbow Lorikeets having fun in her copper dish. Up close the little red eyes on these birds almost make them look evil! But they seem to be having a very good time bathing a splashing around. Her final photo is one of a Crested Pigeon taking a deep drink from the water and we love that you can lots of detail of the feathers in her pictures.

And that’s it folks! We hope that you’ll keep sending us photos of what’s visiting your dishes and for those who don’t yet have a Mallee birdbath we’re planning to run another photo competition based on native gardens in the next few months where you’ll have an opportunity to win a dish.

We’ll keep you posted,

The Mallee team 🙂

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favourite colours: I'm more of a shades person but love blue, yellow, pink

favourite animals: Horses, wombats, kookaburras, bees, whales, buffalos,,,, basically just any animal really. Animals make shit worth it. 🥰

favourite fictional character: Shit. Ah. Sam from the Lord of the Rings or Granny Weatherwax from Discworld?

coffee, tea or hot chocolate: Don't really go in for coffee unless it's like ice coffee and then barely that, same with tea, mostly just have green tea, so maybe hot chocolate? Although I hardly have that either... Hmmmm... 😂

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