Vixens 366 for 2020

[Roy1961]

posting beautiful pics as always vixen.

 

[Vixen]

272/366.... looks like its going to be a bumper spring. Flowers are out in abundance. Deep red hippeastrums



273/366... Royal Spoonbill



274/366... Brown Thornbill



275/366... Eastern Yellow Robin. Saw the whole family. They have 2 youngsters they are feeding



276/366.... Galah



277/366...... brown Thornbill



278/366.... Regent Bowerbird. Young male in immature plumage. When they are mature they are black and vivid yellow

 

[Vixen]

279/366.... more Hippeastrum flowers. Flowering so so well this year



280/366..... Red Browed Firetail Finch



281/366..... Lewins Honeyeater



282/366...... Brown Thornbill, 7g of cuteness



283/366..... Grey Shrike Thrush



284/366....... not sure what this flower is



285/366.... Wonga Pigeon

 

[Vixen]

286/366.....Brown Honeyeater



287/366.... Green Tree Snake



288/366..... Regent Bowerbird




289/366.... Brown Thornbill



290/366.....White Browed Scrubwren




291/366....Silvereye



292/366.....Superb Fairy Wren

 

[Vixen]

293/366... Grey Shrike Thush




294/366.... Red Browed Finch having a shower



295/366.....Passionfruit flower




296/366.... Brown Honeyeater



297/366..... young Brown Thornbills. I can't get enough of these little ones. Totally cute and so entertaining



298/366... Wood Ducks... mum up front, dad bringing up the rear and their brood of 5 ducklings (one is hiding. Can you see it?)



299/366.... White Cheeked Honeyeater. This one has been eluding me for weeks. he's often about but not often in clear view like this

 

[Vixen]

300/366.... just some tiny fungi growing on dead wood



301/366..... Scarlet Honeyeater




302/366.....White Cheeked Honeyeater




303/366.....young Brown Thornbill... so cute




304/366.....Willy Wagtail feeding a dragonfly to its baby




305/366.....Brown Honeyeater in Kangaoo Paw flowers



306/366.... Silvereye



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[Roy1961]

293/366... Grey Shrike Thush




294/366.... Red Browed Finch having a shower



295/366.....Passionfruit flower




296/366.... Brown Honeyeater



297/366..... young Brown Thornbills. I can't get enough of these little ones. Totally cute and so entertaining



298/366... Wood Ducks... mum up front, dad bringing up the rear and their brood of 5 ducklings (one is hiding. Can you see it?)

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299/366.... White Cheeked Honeyeater. This one has been eluding me for weeks. he's often about but not often in clear view like this

NO....... help lol

 

[Vixen]

NO....... help lol

Haha...behind the lead duck. Can just see his bill poking out at bottom of her neck

 

[Vixen]

307/366... White Cheeked Honeyeater. After a timid initial arrival I see him, and his family, most days now. This is one of the youngsters



308/366..... Silvereye. Only 1. Must be a loner




309/366....Brown Thornbills having a little chat about who gets to go in first




310/366....Brown Honeyeater doing a bit of tidying up




311/366.... Yellow Tailed Black Cockatoo. Had 6 of them in my banksia bush. Very cheeky. Keeping an eye on me and apparently while I was watching the ones in the bush, one came and sat on the birdbath out in the open and had a long drink....and I missed it completely



312/366..... Brown Thornbills



313/366.... and I *think* this is also a Brown Thornbill that has some weird colouring. Somewhat leucistic maybe. It's a very odd colour

 

[Vixen]

314/366.....Eastern Yellow Robin



315/366....Brown Thornbills




316/366....Peaches on my tree. I won't get any. The birds will eat them all before they are properly ripe




317/366.....preening Silvereye




318/366....White Cheeked Honeyeaters




319/366... Eastern Osprey




320/366.....Pied Butcherbird

 

[Vixen]

321/366.... Brown Thornbills



322/366.... Silvereye



323/366....clover




324/366.....female Superb Fairywren




325/366....Brown Thornbill

 

[Vixen]

326/366..... White Browed Scrubwren



327/366.... Brown Thornbill fluffball

 

[Vixen]

328/366.... male Variegated Fairy Wren



329/366.....Brown Thornbill




330/366... fallen frangipani flowers



331/366......White Browed Scrubwren. He's lost his tail again




332/366....Red Browed Finch




333/366.....Eastern Yellow Robin




334/366.....Lewins Honeyeaters

 

[Vixen]

335/366... White Browed Scrubwren



336/366..... Large Billed Scrubwren




337/366...... Brown Honeyeater standoff. Wish I could get faster shutter speeds but late in the day is when the best action is happening




338/366... White Browed Scrubwren again




339/366.... White Cheeked Honeyeaters




340/366..... Rainbow Bee Eater




341/366... female Red Backed Fairy Wren

 

[Vixen]

342/366.... Eastern Yellow Robins



343/366.... Eastern Whipbird. In 10yrs have only managed to get 3 photos of these birds. They are the masters of elusiveness




344/366..... Brown Thornbill




345/366.... Silvereye




346/366... little spider




347/366.... wet flowers



348/366... grasshopper

 

[Vixen]

349/366.... Frangipanis... they are flowering VERY well this year and smell so beautiful. The raindrops...... We just had flooding. 4 days of heavy rain which saw almost 1m of rain (abt 40 inches) just upstream of us, coupled with high tides, so a few days of the river coming up at high tide each time and cut roads. Now its just hot and humid.



350/366..... Scarlet Honeyeater (juvenile male I think)




351/366....a grasshopper




352/366.... more wet frangipani flower. Dashing out between rain periods



353/366..... resident goanna (Lace Monitor). He's about 4 1/2 - 5ft long. Quite a big one.




354/366..... The ever faithful Brown Thornbills




355/366.... Blue Faced Honeyeater

 

[Vixen]

356/366... Brown Thornbill



357/366... Spangled Drongo family



358/366...Noisy Friarbird




359/366.....Yellow Tailed Black Cockatoo




360/366.... Lewins Honeyeater




361/366...a fly




362/366..... Brown Honeyeater

 

[Vixen]

363/366... Spectacled Monarch



364/366.... tiny little flowers. Not sure what they are



365/366... a wasp



366/366... immature Pied Butcherbird waiting for mum to bring a feed.

 

[Vixen]

And that's it.... the end of 2020.... the start of another year that could be just as bad as the last but will hopefully be better.

 

[Roy1961]

well done vixen, you posted nothing but beautiful images.