After the ball emerges new life

whipbirds –stand still when they are close and you will see them

 

 

never never enough banksia passion food

Banksia bud light

Lots of these banksia flowers used so much by the eastern spinebills.

Watching a grey butcherbird hunting, catching a lizard, hanging prey in forked branch.

Family of young golden whistlers.

Two grey goshawks gliding over, around and around FOM.

At least four nesting sites for collared sparrowhawks located in FOM.

Regular black-faced cuckoo-shrikes around on dead trees and in the bush calling, hunting.

Autumn sunlight

natural bonsai on rockface ledge

 

common sight in FOM but special in this light

 

That same tree – today with silvereyes, spinebills, new holland, yellow-faced honeyeaters

Same tree --update

Eastern Spinebill tree edge clearing Pidding Rd end FOM - still Spinebills but now Yellow-faced Honeyeaters (unusual in FOM) and BulBuls and Brown Thornbills and still this small tree gives its blossoms!!!

The world's longest non-stop flight: Sydney's Migratory Shorebirds - Events Calendar - The Big Diary - ABC Online

The world's longest non-stop flight: Sydney's Migratory Shorebirds - Events Calendar - The Big Diary - ABC Online

Monday 4 April 2011 early morn walk in FOM—Powerful Owl

Powerful Owl about 3 mtrs away – we spent some time eyeing each other off.

Lots of eastern spinebills in blossoms Pidding Rd end of FOM together with a lot of New Holland Honeyeaters.  This tree has been a mecca over the last week.  Rainbow Lorikeets there also this morning. By about 8.30am they are gone.

Spinebills also love these banksias – lots coming into flower now.

Notes from March 2011

Last week of March lots of Eastern Spinebill Honeyeaters racing around as they do, in eucalyptus blossoms this time, together with Silver-eyes and some Brown Thornbills with large number of Red-browed firetails nearby in the open area Pidding Rd end of FOM. Of course, the eastern Spinebills loving the banksia flowers on the low shrubs in the bush as usual.

Pair of rainbow lorikeets seem to be nesting on edge of clearing Pittwater Rd end.

Flock of pardalottes Sugarloaf point.

Plus all the usuals – Grey Butcherbird,grey fantail, Collared Sparrowhawk, the odd New Holland, Treecreepers, east Yellow Robin, Welcome Swallows, White-face Herns, White-browed Scrubwrens, feeding groups, and so on----