Awesome , cool pics. Jojo might want to ease up on the Coopers though.

I had a diary as a kid, but man how much better are modern day phone photo libraries for jogging the memory. Love going through old stuff just searching different times. Come to think of it, it’s a shame that diary ever went in the bin. It would be a laugh to have a read of it now

What a beauty keegs, Classic

Some great shots there shoredump

Bit more on Molly, watch the video and put a smile on your dial

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9976405/Adorable-story-rescue-…

Dogs are the best people

Speaking of maggies and good photos...

Magpie swooping a cyclist, caught by rear-facing helmet camera:

Such a fantastic photo. I know how to use imgbb for photo's but don't know how to post link for video. I love magpie's, they are so frigin cool

Cool maggie pic Stu. Just for clarification though, it was from a motor biker, not cyclist

https://australian.museum/learn/species-identification/ask-an-expert/wh…

I've been away for two months and Mr Einstein (one very smart magpie) has not visited the house during that time according to the misses. Yesterday I pull into the driveway and within 2 minutes I shit you not, he's out on the back railing calling me

https://ibb.co/m4SPMHQ

Wife doesn't put food out?

(Great photo BTW)

He recons she's a witch haha, I didn't say that

How do I post a video, he's even more amazing with all his mimicking

Cool pic seaslug, as are all the others above.

In Imgbb after you upload look for the 'Embed Codes' box, choose 'HTML full-linked' and hover to the right of the link where a 'copy' button appears. Hit copy and paste here.

seaslug wrote:

How do I post a video, he's even more amazing with all his mimicking

I think you might have to upload it to youtube first, then it's just a matter of copying the embed code.

Awesome seaslug! Obviously sharkeyes don't work on Maggies

Cheers Westofthelake, here he is inspecting and giving approval of the DS, lovely colours was his statement. The other is his young protégé

Ok, I'll see what I can do with youtube, thanks.

Here we go

Ha ha...you chuck some coffee beans in the bird seed?

Beautiful.

In one fell swoop that just made me really homesick.

Vetafarm Insecta Pro and top shelf mince does the job

Haha sounds like an old school dial up modem!

Isn’t nature and that Maggie amazing, that was beautiful seaslug, thanks for posting.

28's, kookaburra, mopoke, barking dog, wolf whistles, something in english and other birds I'm still trying to determine

He also learnt the whistle that I call him with and now he whistles me with it when he arrives.

"They say a dog is a man's best friend, but how many canines do you know that consider a magpie their mate?"

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-09-10/meet-unlikely-friends-peggy-the-…

Its fantastic hey, I posted it earlier in the week on this thread, here is a bit more on more on Molly, watch the video and put a smile on your dial

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9976405/Adorable-story-rescue-s...

Classic seaslug. The magpie doing the dog bark is farking hilarious, sounds like a little Chihuahua!

seaslug wrote:

28's, kookaburra, mopoke, barking dog, wolf whistles, something in english and other birds I'm still trying to determine

Yep. The boobook is pretty damn good too.

Yeah that's pretty cool seaslug.
I'm also blessed to have created a bit of a bird sanctuary at my humble abode . They get a small amount of food most arvos and for that I'm rewarded with basically having wild pets. Many of them can be hand fed and love a pat or a scratch.
Such unique characters amongst them , as Mr Einstein is testament to.

I built a birdfeeder a few years ago and while it attracts mostly sparrows, it's kinda nice to hear them get excited when I walk out the front door with the dog. In summer they kind of drop off to a few because there's plenty of tucker around but in winter it's packed. I really miss the variety of birdlife that you find anywhere back home in Oz.

Same I think Blowin, boobook and mopoke

Thanks for all the nice comments guys, I told Mr Einstein and he's strutting around with a puffed up chest hehe

Has anybody got any idea what this bad boy is? I saw it this morning cruising and it was really cool. The appendage is actually the rear and as it walks it kinda waves it up and down. It's about 5cm long and the diameter of your pinky finger.

I downloaded the iNaturalist app. and not quite sure to use it, but it says It's a type of Hawkmoth but would only show me pics of the moth, not the caterpillar.

Anyway, can anybody expand on that? It's quite a beautiful little creature imo.

Looks like this guy!

Yep, that's him.

down a dirt track, along a beach and around and over the headland .....

Nice just found it ;)

Always worth the extra effort eh, even just for some peace and quiet along with a bit of an adventure.

That's for sure Craig, on an otherwise flat day it was lots of fun

Had a special audience with this gorgeous King Parrot this evening..

Beautiful.

My second favourite Aussie bird after the Regent Bowerbird.

Craig ... Great pictures thank you!

Superb fairy wrens in Jan Juc carpark this morning made my day.

great pics Craig

That 1st pic is red hot Craig, awesome.

I do like a KP, they are always good value. Great shots Craig.

We have a growing flock of these little feckers in our hood. A couple of escapees from someones avairay have turned into a dozen or so. Asian ringnecks, in all sorts of colour schemes from traditional green to white This yellow one nests in a hollow in a powerpole just down from ours.

Blackers where abouts are you in general terms? Interesting that the Ringnecks have actually established a bit of a colony in Oz, as there’s plenty of competition with other hollow nesters. In Europe there are lots of them getting around these days and they dislodge the local birds from their hollows.