For sure, this January was the month of the Rose-crowned Fruit-doves, a pair at least has been seen and heard regularly, feeding on the fruits available on the White Fig and Limeberry.
Limeberry above and White Fig below, the Rose-crowned Fruit-dove's food supply.
Royal Spoonbills
White-browed Scrubwren
Striated Pardalote
Pied Currawong with young.
The young Australian Wood Duck is now totally independent, no parents were around.
Noisy Friarbirds, adult above and a young one just out of the nest below.
Feeding time for the newly fledged Loughing Kookaburra.
Sacred Kingfishers were very busy this month, raising the new generations.
Bar-shouldered Dove
Crested Pigeons
Little-black Cormorant
Torresian Crow
Australian Magpie
Noisy Miner family with food.
A young Spangled Drongo (below) requesting food.
A young Torresian Crow found itself under the nest of the Drongos who were not happy about it and tried to chase it away bomb-diving constantly, although they never really touched the crow.
...and the chicks are fledging.
Variegated Fairywren
Eastern Whipbird
Olive-backed Orioles, adult above and juvenile below.
Immature Black-faced Monarch, first post-breeding bird visiting, starting the autumn migration/movements.
Pale-headed Rosella
Pale-vented Buch-hens
Dusky Moorhen
Australasian Figbird
Pheasant Coucal
Eeltail Catfish
Lydia Lichen Moth
Graphic Flutterer
Blue Skimmer
Heliotrope Moth
Green-face Gum Hopper
Meadow Argus
Blue Garden Flatworm
White Passionflower
Mud Plantain
Blackwood
Grey Myrtle
January was surely the month of moulting feathers, from the summer solstice on December 21, days are becoming shorter, the breeding season is drawing to an end and this is the right time for many species to renew their feathers. Often, measuring the feathers is very useful for a correct identification.
Below: feathers of Tawny Frogmouths
Below: feathers of Kookaburras
Below: Oriental Cuckoo
Below: Noisy Miner
Below: Pied Butcherbird
Below: Noisy Miner
Below: Torresian Crow
Below: Crested Pigeon
Below: Blue-faced Honeyeater
Below: Olive-backed Oriole
Below: Pied Currawong
Below: Australasian Figbird
Below: Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike
