What's the black one Andy?

And what's Garry the Goshawk munching on, Bin Chicken?

 

Always a bit nervous opening this thread.

Nice birds. Calming.

 

Drongo ( the bird is not you Jim )

https://www.facebook.com/ParksandWi...icrurus-bracteatus-prey-on-/1022097567850506/

Goshawk is having Torresian Pigeon Pie
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torresian_imperial_pigeon




I have watched the pigeons eat their body weight in palm fruit in a sitting...

 

Black one’s a spangled drongo.

A great name for a bird

 

Sorry @STANDY I rained on your parade

Beautiful shiny birds tho

 

No drama, get some great birds in the yard. Live across from a coastal reserve that’s a few hundred meters from beach so get coastal and bush species.

Did put a few bird boxes up.........



Doesn’t always mean you get a bird move in....

 

Please note the duck patiently for siting it’s turn.

 

Did you use a timer or remote shutter to capture this shot?

 

Did it squeal like Ned Beatty?

 

Or the duck could be really sore and can't move.

That IS one randy roo...

 

Hrmm, would could you make with the offspring from this congress of beasts?

Hop-chops?

 

Pork-pouch?

Ham-a-roo?

 

oldie but comments are fun

“Everybody gangsta until Aussies say "Look at the size of that thing!!"

“You know its bad when the Australian says something is big”

 

Very nice picture

 

Up my way it would be a crocodile eating a kangaroo, buffalo, Brahman or something....

Last guy I took fishing was a US Marine that had been on the jumping crocodile tour a few weeks earlier and after about a hour he was, “I expected to see a few but this is en ridiculous” and “ didn’t know places like this existed anymore, this is just about as wild as one gets”
Had to asked if anything went wrong did I just drop he’s bag back at the gate or fill out any forms for such a high ranking officer. Which made him chuckle on the way back but not so in the morning and a hour in..... He came out again so he must have been fine....didn’t bring as many beers the next time though....

 

Lucky it was only a little one

"I mean a five-metre croc can lift itself a good metre and a half, maybe two metres, out of the water and most boat gunnels are not as high as that," he said.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-04...ut-of-water-into-fishos-boat-kakadu/100105532

 

Even the field mice want to kill you:

From the Washington Post 4/30/2021

Australia’s ‘mice plague’ is horrific. Consider yourself warned.

Australia, right now, feels a little biblical. There was a terrible drought, then the worst bush fires ever recorded. A flood came next. Now it’s the turn of the mice.

The scale of the mouse plague is hard to comprehend. In the western districts of New South Wales (NSW), the country’s most populous state, millions of mice are now on the march. There are also serious infestations in southern Queensland, Victoria and South Australia.


On social media, farmers post videos showing the swarm in action, while farming organizations say the cost is already in the millions.

When presenting reports of the mouse plague on Sydney radio, I issue a warning about “material that may disturb some listeners.” The details are disgusting. Consider yourself warned.


Bradley Wilshire, a farmer near Dubbo, captured more than 500 in one night and then shared details of how to build the bucket trap in which he caught them.

According to the Country Women’s Association, farmers have been bitten in their beds, with some protecting themselves from incursions by placing each leg of their bed or child’s cot in a bucket of sand or water.

In three towns, the mice even managed to invade the local hospital, biting patients.

Then, a month ago, there was a second flood, which some thought might drown the mice in their burrows. The impact varied. In some places, the rain stabilized mouse numbers, but in other places the populations continued to boom. Worse, the flooding drove the mice indoors, with some eating through doors and the silicon around windows to gain entry.


The emotional impact has not been properly recorded, according to Steve Henry, a mouse expert who has been advising farmers.

“People have become exhausted,” he tells me. “There are mice in their linen press, in their pantry, running across their beds, eating their food. Every day, when they get up, there are mice. Every night, when they go to bed, there are mice.”