Sorry forgot to mention location. Lorne VIC, we came down from the north, turned left at the intersection & at the public beach front park. We had a bit of a chat with the council workers cleaning the area a bit later, it is a relentless task for them. We had picked up a bit of rubbish earlier around where we parked. The same issue everywhere!
-- Edited by Whenarewethere on Monday 4th of February 2019 06:07:00 PM
the rocket said
09:26 PM Feb 4, 2019
Whenarewethere wrote:
Feel free, here are a few screenshots from the movie full size. Last picture is the lead singer walking off saying his last 2 notes.
Thankyou. Beautiful photos
Rob Driver said
04:38 AM Feb 5, 2019
Hi the rocket,
They are truly beautiful birds.
Maybe the one in the door way of your caravan is checking the motif on the mat.? :)
the rocket said
07:19 AM Feb 5, 2019
bentaxlebabe wrote:
Hi the rocket, They are truly beautiful birds. Maybe the one in the door way of your caravan is checking the motif on the mat.? :)
Hi bentaxelebabe, never saw that. Possibly.
Warren-Pat_01 said
12:12 PM Feb 8, 2019
One of Australia's most liked/despised birds. Treat them right with the odd snack (no sugar) & they won't buzz you or that's what I have found. Perhaps being nearly 2m tall, I might appear as a small tree!
You people know there are two species - the white-backed (seen in Victoria, southern parts of SA) & the black-backed, see in the rest of the country.
Their song is only surpassed by their cousin - the Butcherbird (grey & pied are the more common, the black one is seen around some beach areas in Nth Qld). The description of the way they got their name is a bit gruesome - "it impales its prey (small vertebrates, large insects) on a thorn or wedges it into a crack or a forked twig in order to tear it or, sometimes, to store it".
Mind you the Magpie is no gentler & also attacks smaller birds, their nests.
Craig1 said
10:09 PM Feb 8, 2019
I had one walk across the road last week when high 30 degrees,maybe 40 to have a shower. I was watering my letter box plant from 5 metres away( I know lazy me). She/he had a damn fine time wallowing in the water.
maggie dropped in to say hello. Bought the misses n kids too.
These 6 magpies did a 10 second song busking for a bit of food with the one in the foreground leading the choir who ended with 2 final notes!
That is an amazing shot. Could i copy it please? And where was it taken.
Feel free, here are a few screenshots from the movie full size. Last picture is the lead singer walking off saying his last 2 notes.
Sorry forgot to mention location. Lorne VIC, we came down from the north, turned left at the intersection & at the public beach front park. We had a bit of a chat with the council workers cleaning the area a bit later, it is a relentless task for them. We had picked up a bit of rubbish earlier around where we parked. The same issue everywhere!
-- Edited by Whenarewethere on Monday 4th of February 2019 06:07:00 PM
Thankyou. Beautiful photos
They are truly beautiful birds.
Maybe the one in the door way of your caravan is checking the motif on the mat.? :)
Hi bentaxelebabe, never saw that. Possibly.
You people know there are two species - the white-backed (seen in Victoria, southern parts of SA) & the black-backed, see in the rest of the country.
Their song is only surpassed by their cousin - the Butcherbird (grey & pied are the more common, the black one is seen around some beach areas in Nth Qld). The description of the way they got their name is a bit gruesome - "it impales its prey (small vertebrates, large insects) on a thorn or wedges it into a crack or a forked twig in order to tear it or, sometimes, to store it".
Mind you the Magpie is no gentler & also attacks smaller birds, their nests.