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PiPs BiFs
Pied Imperial-PigeonCape York, Queensland, AustraliaOctober 2012A couple of BiFs of PiPs at Cape York. It seemed wherever we were at Cape York, every few minutes we'd have a sprinkling of these passing...
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Feral Pigs
Feral PigsCape York, Queensland, AustraliaOctober 2012Feral pigs are a real problem in Australia. Here is a family at a water hole at Cape York.Add caption
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Rainbow Bee-eater
Rainbow Bee-eaterCape York, Queensland, AustraliaOctober 2012A couple of BiFs of a Rainbow Bee-eater.Add caption
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Radjah Shelduck and Friends
Radjah Shelduck, Little Black Cormorant, Little Pied Cormorant, Nankeen Night-HeronCape York, Queensland, AustraliaOctober 2012This is one of my first photographs on my Cape York tour of 2012. I've...
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Crested Tern
Crested TernCape York, Queensland, AustraliaOctober 2012Here's some BiFs of a Crested Tern at Cape York. I'd like to be surrounded by that scenery today!
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Sakura Along the Shinano River 2016
SakuraShinano River, Niigata, JapanSony RX100iiiApril 2016Here are some pics from along the Shinano River in Niigata City taken the last couple of weeks. I have been in gear-head mode. Most of these...
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Blue-and-white Weekend
Blue-and-white FlycatcherJunsai-ike, Niigata, JapanApril 24, 2016Here are some birds from Junsai-ike this weekend. I went there few a few hours both Saturday and Sunday. Pretty nice.Red-flanked...
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Search for the Blue Blue-and-white Flycatcher
Cyanoptila cyanomelana cyanomelanaJunsai-ike, Niigata, JapanApril 23, 2016I went to Junsai-ike today looking for this bird and I failed so here are left-over pics from last week.I received an...
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Wedgetail
Wedge-tailed EagleLockyer Valley, Queensland, AustraliaDecember 28, 2015Here are some wedgetail pics from the Lockyer Valley at the end of last year. I often seem to get good wedgtail encounters when...
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A walk around Fukushimagata
FukushimagataNiigata, JapanMay 15, 2016 It was early summer out there today. I went for bit of a walk around Fukushimagata. Didn't really find anything new. The bird of the day was "Grey Heron". They...
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A rose by the name of "Bara"
"Bara"-Japanese for "Rose"Echigo Hillside Park, Nagaoka, Niigata, JapanMay 29, 2016No, it's not Australian English. "Bara" is the Japanese word for "rose".We went to the Nagaoka Rose Show today. It was...
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Swifts and Terns
White-winged TernSakata, Niigata, JapanJune 4, 2016Had a scarce bird outing on Saturday and Sunday and found some scarce birds to match. I think these were White-winged Terns. At first I thought they...
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Goshawks 2016
Northern GoshawksNiigata, JapanJune 19, 2016Mr Honma and I went for a quick look at the goshawk nest this morning. I have been impatiently wanting to check it out but we have been waiting for the...
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Industrial Kestrels 2016
Eurasian Kestrelyoung birdShinano River, Niigata City, JapanMay 2016 I was fortunate to find that the kestrel family again raised 3 young. It seemed to me they had left the nest early....late May....
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Last Saturday morning, I discovered that two new peregrines had left the nest at the Prefectural Office. It started raining, however, and I haven't been able to follow up my discovery with photos or...
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Shadow of the Wagtail
White WagtailNiigata, JapanJuly 18, 2016Been quite recently. Very warm and humid. I haven't been in the mood to go out much. Steamy is a good way to describe it. This White Wagtail I met this afternoon...
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Little Baby Birdy
White WagtailNiigata City, JapanJuly, 2016Went out for a walk with my old D300 the day after my last post and found this baby Wagtail. I also used the old Nikkor 80-400 VR. The lens was released in...
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On the Road
"Maisy"Black-striped WallabyIn the care of Judith and Brendon GrayJarowair, Queensland, AustraliaCheck their blogs Beyond Our Patch and Jarowair Our PatchAugust 10, 2016This spectacular little joey is...
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Cranky Devils
I've never been to Tasmania, but was told years ago by a friend that if I went there I'd never come back.The above video was filmed at Lone Pine Sanctuary, Brisbane, Australia on August 9, 2016. (The...
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Gulls of August
Black-tailed GullShinano River, Niigata City, Niigata, JapanAugust 2016We seem to get different waves of gulls at different times of the year in Niigata. April is a good time for Black-headed Gulls but...
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