Watched this this afternoon. Green Tree Snake eats White Lipped Green Tree Frog.
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Watched this this afternoon. Green Tree Snake eats White Lipped Green Tree Frog.
http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forum...2019/12/92.jpg
Although the monsoon trough is yet to reach us we think the wet season has begun. Since 1st January we have had 428.9mm or rain (as of this morning 10/1/20), including one overnight dump of 146.5 mm on the 5th & 151.5mm on the 8th.
The ground is just starting to soften up & these weird rainforest fungi have started popping up everywhere.
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Marbled Frog in car headlights (+torch). It's defensive strategy was to 'freeze'. After taking the photo we picked it up to take it off the road & it remained rigid until released into the shadow of a bush.
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White Lipped Green Tree Frog calling - at the Portland Roads rubbish tip last night.
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This tiny thing came for a very quick visit, yesterday. I've had a go at identifying it but have had no success. Probably a very common bird or an immature one.
It has a grey back and a very short, dark tail, and stands 4-5cm tall. I would appreciate it if anyone could post its species name.
To me it looks like & reads like a fairy wren of some sort, maybe a young one. However fairy wrens have a fairly long tail, maybe young ones don't? It's body shape & stance look fairy wren'ish. Colours are hard to tell as it the pink/purple artifacts look like something that editing has thrown up?
That is what I thought too, but all the pics I have seen, show the young ones with a solid colour to their faces. I must add that it flew very fast and direct, not wobbly like a youngster.
This mornings 'captures'.
I think I have finally realised that photographing birds, for me is like hunting. Getting a good shot of a species for the first time involves many of the skills of hunting, but nothing dies.
Olive backed Sunbird
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Red Browed Finches.
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Truly beautiful natives very well captured Cuppa Mate!
Fair Dinkum hunters do honestly shed a tear for their humane kills, heart strings do need to be pulled for the greater good of such amazing pictures to please keep sharing good man!!
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Crikey! I thought you were in charge of monitoring that whole shit show old mate!!
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He was actually blocking the pathway in a very narrow alley to the carpark. As I waited for him to move, it seemed like an eternity as he tongue flicked the air and moved off into the garden. Just after the shot was taken the little Chinese chef came out for a handful of herbs and he almost had a crap on the spot as he didn't look down before reaching over the fence and his hand was headed straight for a snappy mouth. I laughed 'til it hurt, eventually he smiled and shuffled away, empty handed.Quote:
Originally Posted by MB
Looks to be a fair sized specimen. He wont hurt you though. Mind you I had been told that when frightened they'll climb the nearest tall thing, which could be you. We had heaps of the around up on the Dampier peninsula. None ever did that, but would sometimes stand up on their hind legs. We had names for many of them, & one even used to come into the kitchen to be fed now & then. Never felt threatened by them at all.
When I was here 12 yrs ago we had a couple of really large lizards at the mine site that hung around the admin and projects building. despite instructions not to feed them, people did, so when a person came withing say 10m of the lizard it would run straight at them and prop about a meter away - bloody frightening. Finally one went too far and clambered up a womans leg and tore her jeans leg and scratched her, so the enviro's captured them and relocated them to a fair distance away. At the Top camp they lived under the dongas and at 6pm would come out by the dozens looking for food as the crews arrived from the days work, wide range of colours also.Quote:
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I think my pic is of a Striated Thornbill, or a young Buff-rumped Thornbill.
That Sunbird pic is amazing. The northern Red Brows are more brightly coloured than their southern kin.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cuppa
Yesterday morning. Probably the most impressive bird I have ever seen.
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More info about this rare & unique bird here.
https://www.australiangeographic.com...palm-cockatoo/
Wow that is beautiful mate very lucky. .
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This ripper little bloke was found doing his very best to not become some avians entree tonight :-)
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https://youtu.be/fEeuNCHcWY0
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Kosciuszko ferals under relocation soon out of the National Park, quite protective was Black Beauty, I certainly wasn’t getting any closer for a selfie face ache :-)
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Came across the twin of that one in our vegie garden up here in FNQ just a few days ago. Had never seen anything like it. It is the 'Saunders Case Moth' aka 'Large Bagworm' Initially the caterpillar weaves a bag of silk around it & then adds whatever is around to form a protective case. They retreat into the case to protect themselves & can close the opening at will. It was obvious that they have really good eyesight.Quote:
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metura_elongatus
Blue Winged Kookaburra having a bad hair day!
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Scarlet Honeyeater captured a couple of mornings ago when we were out camping in the bush & doing a bit of 4wd'ing in the mountains around Irvinebank, Qld
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Wild bee's nest (abandoned) hanging from the end of the branches of a gum tree.
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Never knew Little Kanga’s & Lazy Kooka’s could be bestest mates :-)
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Underworld Vicious Killers :-)
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Cheeky Redheads :-)
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Went for a look see and was rewarded with seeing a cow and calf only a couple of hundred metres off the coast. Sorry about the quality of the pic.
Went looking for whales but came across this little bloke in front of the only gannet colony on the mainland.
No whales today, but this guy was so agile for his size.
Looks like an awesome new Aussie-Made APPY is on the way folks:
https://algorithm.data61.csiro.au/th...n=Critterpedia
Just signed ourselves up for ‘Early Access’ once it is finally released from the Brisbane based developers Murray & Nic.
https://critterpedia.com/
Could save a life out there off-road one day [emoji106][emoji106]
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Dinner on ice
Have successfully bastardised a lot of great threads here tonight, my apologies :-(
Honest question though, why can’t us Australian’s have a pet Monkey Mate, would they go feral eventually like Cats if left unattended?
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Already plenty of feral ones around, but won't make good pets. Can be seen unmasked, breaking curfews, protesting, baiting cops, chemists and Bunnings workers.Quote:
Originally Posted by MB
Best kept locked up where they belong.
Yeah, they are a new 'religion', many with 'born again' zeal with all sorts of wacky conspiracy theory ideas mish mashed together. We live in an age where anti science & anti expertise is common, and where knowledge, facts & common sense are replaced with magical thinking which allows these people to believe that believing something makes it a fact. They are dangerous, a serious menace to our communities, but are validated by the rise in their online numbers who spur each other on. Quite alarming how many seemingly 'sensible' people believe the virus is fake & much more besides. Thankfully the vast majority of folk recognise them for what they are, but it doesn't stop them being a danger to us all. They are the gullible, sucked in by all the Q-anon nonsense, believing they are the real informed (woke) & trying to convince everyone else that it is the majority who are the gullible! It won't surprise me if we have some here who may choose to attack me for saying so. In the event that that occurs I wont respond, & they'll be talking to themselves.Quote:
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I do agree, but could we not go down the political discussion route, please.
No Politics implied nor intended. It's a serious community safety issue.Quote:
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However I do agree that even mentioning it runs a risk of divisive debate should there be any 'believers' among us, which is why I made it clear I would not be party to ongoing debate.
I do not believe the risk of 'division' should get in the way of mentioning the risk. If we had roving bands of identifiable machine gun toting killers going around killing & maiming I expect we'd all speak out & say it was not on. Saying nothing lends validity. Discussion gives it breath. It's a difficult line to walk. I say that naming the risk (as I have done) is appropriate. But no more - at least not here.
This from the USA says all that is needed
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Back on track. We saw a pod of humpbacks swim past, over a 800m-1km out. The Sigma lens performed superbly in the late afternoon light.
Nice muddy! How often do you go down for a whale squiz? Top pics mate.Quote:
Originally Posted by mudnut
That is probably the tenth time we have gone looking for them this year. We happened upon this pod as soon as we got there. It is luck of the draw. A couple of weeks ago, after ages sitting there, I got cold and went home. The next day, I was talking to a guy who set up in the spot I vacated. He told me that within fifteen minutes of me leaving, he had taken magnificent pics of an orca, just fifty metres offshore.
A surfer was telling me about a pod of Orcas near Princetown that we missed by about the same time. That would have been amazing to see, definitely the luck of the draw. He’d been surfing for well over 20 years and they were the first he’d seen.Quote:
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