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Yes, all leptoptilos (sp?) are nonobligate carrion feeders, so they're a bit bald on the top, as you can see.

They are also ugly to the max.

Great shots & subject matter Garry! I don't remember seeing pics of birds fighting before. For the last pic I mentally put words for the birds thoughts, but they can't be repeated on this site

Great Bird Pictures..........

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I dont' normally do it, especially to other peoples photos,
But patty was right, those just require captions


....And next time I'll finish this post before going and changing someones ava on WMP to something more appropriate for them !

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Fantastic photos everyone!

hey babel, my brother had the same thing happen at his house.

it was a blue kingfisher that thwacked into the window and two Australian miner(sp?) birds were chasing it. I have a feeling they were after its feathers.

The poor little thing was out cold and the first 2 mms of its beak was bent. It eventually woke up when we tried giving ti water. It flew down into the pergola and hung out there for an hour before flying away.

can i post some pics?

I dont know about the OP or everyone else but I would love to see more pics.

I like birds.

Anybody who has pics of birds can post here
Great pics and those captions cracked me up

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here's one from this weekend...

Very colourfull beak.

it leads me to belive that its primary prey is fruit loops.

Thats an awsome picture

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another one... (i have plenty more too)

Awsome pic again...more please

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Denver , Great shots , Give us more!!!!!!!

Heres a couple more from this side of the world .
A Rainbow Lorikeet.

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The Hurley burley of feeding time at our place .

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I wish we had birds like that here!
I did however see a hawk in my garden but he flew away as soon as he saw me so i couldn't get any pics.

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"I wish we had birds like that here!"

No you don't!
Lorikeets arent that bad, but cockatoos at 4.30 in the am, they always make me think of a hundred hungry baby raptors, and once the cockatoos are up everyone is...

Here's some from the weekend. The place we stayed for JB's wedding had a webcam on the birdfeeders .




And one that's a little rarer, sorry for the poor shot but as I tried to get closer he flew off to investigate another part of the forest.

Very nice..keep them coming!

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*understands what Babel is saying*

I get just a small taste of the cacophony every morning when my green cheek conure, Harvey, wakes up. And cockatoos are considerably louder than he is. I do sleep in the same room where Harvey's cage is, I wouldn't dream of doing the same with a cockatoo! The kookaburras we have at the zoo aren't exactly quiet either. Yeah, parrots and such are cool animals, and nice to look at, but if I'm going to have 10 of something in my back yard in the morning, I'd rather have goldfinches than rosellas.

I would like to know what kinds of places members have gone to get these photos, especially Rob and Denver!

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A few more pictures.
I took these pics at an Bird park!

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I sold this one today

You sell pics?..thats cool.
Your pics are so good that it can be sold anytime

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awsome pics everyone!!! thank you for makeing this thread rob!!

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Few from yellowstone.

This one had made a nest in a tree that died as a result of the ground temp rising as a new hot spring formed. The whole area was desolate looking (and smelly) except for this bright little spot of blue.


Later on some birders pointed this little guy out.

A Mountain Bluebird and a Cassin's finch, nice...

I might be able to post some photos of the finches and tits I feed tomorrow or something... My computer is broken so I can't do much in the way of uploading/editing photos right now. My main crew consists of American Goldfinches, Lesser Goldfinches, Pine Siskins, House Finches, Purple Finches, Oak Titmice, and Chestnut-Backed Chickadees.

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Here are some photos I took in the morning... The quality is not very good due to all the fires we've been having; the air is a cloudy gray and the sunlight has a gross orange tinge to it.

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More from today...

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Here's one of the members of a crow family I feed. I think this is one of the juveniles (judging by the light-colored corners of the mouth).

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That's not a bird! *points*!


Who are the young juvies?

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The otter scared away all the birds we were feeding in the pond, but then it climbed out and rolled around in the dirt and tried to look innocent, so I took some photos of it.

The chicks are my cousin's; there are three Gold-Laced Wyandottes and three Silver-Laced Wyandottes. She's had them for about a week now, but they are already pretty much tamed (they are pets, not for food).

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A Rainbow Bee-Eater I saw while out walking around the suburbs this morning:

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You get pretty birds around your place like that GT?
And it sat still while you got a photo, excellent.

Thanks Bren

This bee-eater was the only 'co-operative' one of 5 or 6 pairs that I saw this morning. I also saw lots of lorikeets and a couple of kingfishers while out and about, but unfortunately couldn't get any nice pics of them either.

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These few did stay still for me.
Wagtail chicks


figeater bird


young galah

Here are some pics i took some time ago!
Some from the park and some from the cottage.
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More from the park.
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And some birds from our cottage up in the mountain.
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4.This fella came inside our cotage,i did however get it out after some time.

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Hahaha, owls always look hilarious when they get their photo taken. I've bought books on birds before just for the photos in the owl section.

EDIT: Also, those are excellent photos of the swallows. What species are they? I've tried to take pictures of the Violet-Green Swallows that nest around my house, but I have failed miserably thus far.

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