Jerrabombera Wetlands, Canberra.

LIke the Botanic Gardens, the wetlands are different each visit. Water levels vary as of course do the seasons. It is a fairly large wetland, formed around the creeks running beside the Molonglo River into Lake Burley Griffin. There are 7 or 8 constructed hides, and several paths. The main through-path needs you to be concentrating more on the whizzing bikes than possible bird sightings.

Nankeen Night Heron

Sacred Kingfisher

Weebill

Red Wattlebird (juv)

White-browed Scrubwren

Yellow Thornbill

Superb Fairy Wren (breeding m)

Spotted Dove

Silvereye

Red-browed Finch

Red-browed Finch

Purple Swamp-hen

Pink-eared Duck (f and m)

Red-rumped parrots

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Australian reed warbler

Juvenile white=browed scrubwren

Australasian Coot

Willy wagtail and Sacred Kingfisher

Red-rumped Parrot

Australasian Darter

White-browed scrubwren

Australasian Shoveler

Australasian Grebe

White faced Heron

Royal Spoonbill

Australian Pelican

Australian Pelican

Australian Pelican

Australian shoveler

Australian reed warbler

Australian reed warbler

Baillin’s Crake

Australian Pelican and Royal Spoonbill

Superb Fairy Wren (fem)

BIRDS OF THE ILLAWARRA COAST

On a photography tour with Andrew Wood from Illawarra Birding Tours I managed to get the following bird photos:

New Holland Honeyeater

Superb Fairy Wren fem

Whiskered Bulbul

Whiskered Bulbul

Golden Whistler

Brown Cuckoo Dove

Lewin’s Honeyeater

Grey Shrike Thrush

Yellow Robin

Yellow Robin

Caspian Tern

Red Stints and black swans

Red Plover

Great Egret

Chestnut Teal male and fem

Australasian Grebe

Little Black Cormorant

Great Cormorant

Tree Creeper

BIRDS ON NORFOLK ISLAND

Norfolk Island is over 800km from any other land.

1. Masked booby — Masked Boobies

2. Sooty tern — Sooty Tern

4. Crimson rosella (introduced pest) — Crimson Rosella (an introduced pest)

3. Sacred kingfisher (endemic) — Sacred Kingfisher

5. Ghost shearwater waiting for dusk — Ghost Shearwater form a raft whilst waiting for dusk so the sharks think they are one big animal.

9.Kestrel — Nankeen Kestrel (female)

24. Black winged petrel — Black Winged Petrel

6. White faced heron — White faced Heron

7. Purple swamphen — Purple Swamphen

23. Sooty tern — Sooty Tern

12. Tropicbird — Tropic Bird

10. Masked booby — Masked Booby

15. White necked petrel — White-necked Petrel

22.Baby tropic bird — Tropic Bird (baby)

8. Kestrel — Kestrel

19. Grey fantail (endemic) — Grey Fantail

14. Song thrush — Song Thrush

18. Welcome swallow — Welcome Swallow

Structures Tasmania

Derby International Cricket Stadium

William Smith O’Brien cottage, Maria Island

Part of the amazing story of the young irelanders

Woolmers 6 our cottage — Woolmers’ Cottage

Launceston P A Fisher Tailoring then boot factory 37 Frederick St — P A Fisher, Launceston, employer of some important people in the 1930s

Inside the marvel of MONA

William Smith O’Brien Cottage, Port Arthur

Bellerive Oval

Cascade Brewery

The Pump House Hotel, Lake St Clair, Derwent Bridge

Custom House with a famous employee of 1950

John Terry’s millstones brought out in the very early 19th C. New Norfolk

Eddystone Point, NE

1830 accommodation, near Oatlands

Cape Portland, most North Eastern point of Tasmania

Cascade Brewery

Stamp, Beaconsfield

Recently discovered washroom floor, Port Arthur

Norfolk Bay, Saltwater River, Port Arthur

Zeehan

Rokeby

Transport Tasmania

Derby – mountain biking capital of Australia

Campbell Town “red” bridge – 1838 – oldest brick arch bridge in Australia

Original 1897 Bridge over King River, Strahan-Zeehan rail line.

YOu mean 10? Newly sealed Trowutta road – Try hitting 100 here!

Arthur River, Tas west coast

Original 1897 steam engine on Strahan railway – also built from a flatpak without instructions by people who had never seen a rail engine before

ocean beach, Strahan

Melalueca, part of the south west track

Fatman Barge, Corinna, West coast

Gordon River cruiser, Strahan

Rock Fall protection, Strahan Railway

Strahan Railway along King River

Strahan Railway

Water – nearly as challenging as flying birds

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I have decided I am a duck

I have come to the following realisation that I am a duck.

What do you call a cat that swallows a duck? A duck-filled-fatty-pus