AUSTRALIA ~ The Antipodes

AUSTRALIA ~ The Antipodes
I love a sunburnt country / A land of sweeping plains / Of ragged mountain ranges / Of droughts and flooding rains / I love her far horizons / I love her jewel-sea / Her beauty and her terror / The wide brown land for me / ~ Dorothea Mackellar (1885-1968)

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Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Baby Butcher Bird


Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ A baby butcher bird sleeping on my verandah railing in the Dromana Hills, Mornington Peninsula
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World Bird Wednesday #8
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Tiny wee muppet
Beautiful but loud warbling
Character on wings
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Pics by Gemma Wiseman ~ Waking up!
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World Bird Wednesday is hosted by Springman

14 comments:

Martha Z said...

A big bill on a little bird. You do have a lot of birds unknown in the US.

holdingmoments said...

What a beauty.
Like Martha says, such a big bill.

Johnny Nutcase said...

aw! what a cutie :) Looks like he let you get some nice shots!

mick said...

Great photos - it looks like a very young bird.

theconstantwalker said...

Interesting name of this little beauty. Just googled this relative of the Magpie. Similar behaviour as some of our Shrikes. I won't add more. lol

Unknown said...

Grand photos!! We have a butcher bird also called a Northern Shrike. Boom & Gary of The Vermilon River, Canada.

Springman said...

Your Butcher Bird is quite a character and you have taken the definative pictures. Fantasticly detailed capture!

Sallie (FullTime-Life) said...

Great bird! I am posting to World Bird for the first time this week. Most of my bird pix don't turn out well enough (another of my many goals to get better at!)

joco said...

Asleep, with feathers fluttering in the breeze. Good picture, Gemma. Not so sure I like the bird all that much. I understand you are well away from the floods. What a disaster for the country.

Sondra said...

WOW such a wonderful bird small with that mighty beak---taking a power nap!!

A Wild Thing said...

Seeing sweet lil' critters like this just makes me want to grab my paint brush and start an image in softness.

I can so identify with the flooding, it's so tragic anywhere in the world...my heart goes out to your fellow Aussies Gemma!!!

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Empty Nester said...

You take such amazing photos! I almost reached up to touch my computer screen!

Anonymous said...

oh, so cute! so precious!

paz

Larry said...

Excellent shots of the Butcher Bird Gemma. I love the first shot of the little guy sleeping.

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