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Re: Away on a flying kangaroo and very fast stellar object.

Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2014 10:06 pm
by steamtrainfan
To translate the heading - We flew with Qantas Airways from Johannesburg to Sydney. We then had two hours to get through customs and security and catch a bus to the domestic terminal where we boarded Jet Star airlines to Sunshine Coast airport near Maroochydore which is about 100 km's north of Brisbane. We stayed with our son, daughter in law and granddaughter for the whole month. We did not travel far from Maroochydore - to Noosa in the north and Brisbane in the south.

This is going to be more of a photo album than a diary of where we went and what we did. We are also going to group the photos in categories instead of the photos of each day.

The first category which will have 75 photos so be prepared.

Birds of Australia. Suburban and wild.

I only have a small Australian bird book so if we can find the name of the bird we will mention if not we will mark it as "unidentified". Please correct us if we are wrong.

Silver Seagull.

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Grey Butcherbird.

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Azure Kingfisher.

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Unidentified.

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White-faced Heron.

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Pied Butcherbird.

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To be continued.

Re: Away on a flying kangaroo and very fast stellar object.

Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2014 10:21 pm
by Pumbaa
Amazing bird shots already, steamtrainfan ^Q^ ^Q^ ^Q^

Re: Away on a flying kangaroo and very fast stellar object.

Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2014 10:25 pm
by steamtrainfan
Unidentified.

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Unidentified.

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?????? Dove.

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Rainbow Lorikeet.

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????? Seagull - not a Silver Seagull as beak, feet and tips of wings different colour.

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Silver Seagull.

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??????? Commorant?

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To be continued.

Re: Away on a flying kangaroo and very fast stellar object.

Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2014 10:27 pm
by steamtrainfan
Pumbaa wrote:Amazing bird shots already, steamtrainfan ^Q^ ^Q^ ^Q^
Thanks very much Pumbaa. \O

Re: Away on a flying kangaroo and very fast stellar object.

Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2014 7:32 am
by nan
lot of birds O/\ ^Q^

Re: Away on a flying kangaroo and very fast stellar object.

Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2014 8:25 am
by steamtrainfan
House Sparrow.

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Martin or Swift.

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Crested Pigeon - note the lovely colours in the wings.

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Laughing Kookaburra - their call sounds very similar to hyenas laughing.

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One of the Honeyeater family?

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Masked Lapwing.........................

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......and its chick.

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To be continued.

Re: Away on a flying kangaroo and very fast stellar object.

Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2014 8:38 am
by steamtrainfan
Darters.

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Pelican taking off.

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Great Egret.

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Australian Pelican - Australias only Pelican.

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Not very good photos of this guy as he was high up and into the sun.

White-bellied Sea Eagle.

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To be continued.

Re: Away on a flying kangaroo and very fast stellar object.

Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2014 11:13 am
by harrys
Some beautiful bird photos STF ^Q^ ^Q^ :ty:

Re: Away on a flying kangaroo and very fast stellar object.

Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2014 11:50 am
by steamtrainfan
harrys wrote:Some beautiful bird photos STF ^Q^ ^Q^ :ty:
Thanks very much harrys.

Re: Away on a flying kangaroo and very fast stellar object.

Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2014 12:04 pm
by steamtrainfan
Silver Seagull grabbing a piece of bread whilst in flight.

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Australian White Ibis.

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Tawny Frogmouth. Unfortunately it was fast asleep.

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Crested Terns.

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Pacific Black Duck.

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Blue-faced Honeyeater and Magpie Lark.

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To be continued.