A few photos taken here and there just because I had the camera with me during the rest of October ...
This laughing kookaburra had a piece of grass hanging from the beak after digging around in the red dirt in our yard. I think the beak looks even more powerful when it is pointing toward the camera in the second photo. Always looks good in the frangipani - even when foliage and flower free.
This pair of superb fairy wrens were spotted in the brush behind Shelly Beach in Ballina. The male was keeping lookout as the female flew back and forth dropping decorations and necessities in their nest which was just to her lower right in a clump of thick long grass.
This next sequence shows a lone silver gull drinking from a draining water source dribbling its way across the sand to the ocean. The third photo in the sequence was taken a while later and offers a wider view of the water course between pandanus palm branches and shows a pair of silver gulls, with one drinking.
The ubiquitous Australian white ibis living up to one of its nicknames - bin chicken - as it snaps up a leftover chip from the grass near a picnic table.
This pair of rainbow lorikeets are showing off their colourful iridescent palettes as they gorge on a fallen avocado in our driveway - one always making lots of noise while the other eats to ensure intruders do not encroach!
Next I include a "study" of a pied oystercatcher. The first three photos show one of a roaming pair scouting the rocks looking for a juicy morsel. Each one offers a striking view of the red (at times I could easily write orange!) beak and eyes and the paler pink legs.
The next four photo sequence shows the morsel has been found, the oyster shell being opened (for those of us who have ever done that, just ponder the ingenuity and specialisation of this bird to be able to do it with their beak 😉), the feast that is the oyster being devoured and finally the contented stance of a full belly for the time being. First time I have actually witnessed one open an oyster shell.
For a change I was able to sight and get a good photo of a little pied cormorant on the surface between dives while it was fishing. Looking very much more sleek than perched in a tree or on a rock sun-drying.
And finally, a superb fairy wren on a roadside barbed wire fence. Really makes the fence look special.
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