This is a quick post to show a few pictures of birds seen at
different times during a holiday to Australia. They don’t really fit into a
post by themselves, but give a flavour of some of the birds that you might
encounter anywhere in and around Brisbane.
Rainbow Lorikeet
Roma Street Parklands, Google Earth ref; 27°27'51.52"S
153° 1'13.17"E, held plenty of common
birds, but since most of my time here was spent howling at the sky after
dropping my camera down the concrete steps, I did not do justice to its
potential.
Blue-faced Honeyeater
Anyone who has visited Redgannet before will probably know
that my gear is constantly being dropped and broken. On this occasion, the
shutter button was damaged and refused to take a picture.
Straw-necked Ibis
It was still possible
to use the camera with the remote shutter release, but that was a bit
cumbersome without the tripod.
Pied Butcherbird
New Farm is a city park on a bend
of the Brisbane River (Google Earth ref; 27°28'6.33"S
153°3'2.86"E) downstream from the city. It has wide
lawns and shady trees for the children’s playground. Noisy miners sunned
themselves and even my ornithophobic family found them comically watchable.
Noisy Miner
My favourite of the urban parks is
the City Botanic Garden at Google Earth ref; 27°28'34.75"S
153° 1'48.69"E. It is very easily accessible from the
downtown business and shopping areas and produced my only Sacred Kingfisher of
the holiday.
Crested Pigeon
See the other Brisbane posts below or at these links;
Visit the dedicated Australia page for more from the Lucky Country.
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