Such a pretty little bird! I took these photos and video in March this year. I was sooo excited when I got some reasonable images, this dainty little bird has been taunting me for years. The scenario goes something like [...]
Earlier this month (after weeks of rain), my first born alerted me to a cluster of eerie, glow-in-the-dark mushrooms that popped up on a log next to our pergola. They are a bioluminescent fungus, possibly Mycena chlorophos because of [...]
I had an little bit of excitement at the cottages today. I was cleaning at the Pioneer cottage and my daughter told me there was a Victoria's Riflebird displaying above the cottage. Of course it was finished by the time [...]
...honeyeaters that is! In January this year, when the Euodia trees were flowering, a couple of honeyeaters came in that I haven't seen at Crater Lakes before. The white-cheeked honeyeater was bossy, singing loundly and chasing the other honeyeaters away. [...]
Earlier this year, when the Euodia Trees were bursting with blooms, a small group of Scarlet Honeyeaters were regular visitors. I see them occasionally through the year on the bottlebrushes and grevillias, but in January and February they are easy to photograph [...]
I was excited a couple of weeks ago to get some video of a Wompoo Fruit-Dove calling. They are usually very shy, and will fly away if they see you looking at them. So after I set the camera [...]
At the Pioneer cottage today, 3 juvenile Riflebirds flew in and proceeded to try to outdo each other's dancing skills. A little way in the forest, on a horizontal log they bopped along wings outstretched, it was hilarious! I rushed out, barefoot, [...]
A few guest have told me about a Spotted Catbird who is nesting near one of the cottages. She has built her nest amongst a tangle of "Wait-a-While" vines. The Wait-a While (Lawyer Cane) has a stem covered with large [...]
A pair of Topknot Pigeons blundered onto the palm tree outside my office yesterday afternoon. They flapped about, at times hanging awkwardly upside down, and managed to frighten away a pair of Wompoo Pigeons that had just arrived just before [...]
I always have an ear out for new birds sounds in the forest. A few days ago I heard strange chattering and squawking coming from the tree near the driveway, so I made my way up there. Derp! It was a tooth-billed [...]
