Saturday 30 January 2021

January 2021

 

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