A Wedged-tail Eagle (Aquila Audax) feeds on road kill in outback South Australia. Road kill has become the primary food source for these magnificent birds with an adult wing span exceeding 2.5 meters.
Australia has many bird species. I live 8km from the CBD in Melbourne a city of 4M + people. Despite my large library of bird photos from all over the country I decided to create a gallery of photos taken inside a 60km radius from my house. Much of this area is urbanized. Despite the urban environment wild birds live beside humans. Fortunately a 60km radius encompass some productive areas including the Western Treatment Plant (WPT) South West of Melbourne. WPT is a Ramsar recognised wetland, and its completely human made, it was once the sewerage treatment for Melbourne but has since been superseded. My house backs onto Darebin Creek as it flows through the inner suburbs, allowing observation of its bird population. Surprising what can turn up in suburban yards and parks too.
King Parrot (male) Darebin Creek. Photographed from our balcony.
King Parrot (juvenile) Darebin Creek. Photographed from a window.
Black-shouldered Kite. WPT
Satin Bowerbird (Male) suburban back yard.
Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo. Yarra river Melb.
Tawny Frogmouth and chick. Merri Creek Melbourne.
Yellow-rumped Thornbill. Craigieburn Grasslands
Pied Currawong. Darebin Creek. Photographed from our balcony.
Azure Kingfisher. Yarra River Alphington
Suburb Fairy Wren. WPT
Gallah. Darebin Creek, urban Melbourne
Grey Fantail. Graigieburn Grasslands. Melbourne
Laughing Kookaburra. Darebin Creek Melbourne.
Mistletoe Bird. Darebin Creek Melbourne
Olive-backed Oriel. Darebin Creek Melbourne
White-faced Heron. WPT
Magpie-lark and nestlings. Darebin Creek Melbourne.
White-fronted Chat. WPT
Rainbow Lorikeet. Suburban yard.
Rainbow Lorikeet. Darebin Creek Melbourne
Musk Lorikeet. Feeding on street side Eucalyptus trees in flower.
White-necked Stilts WPT Vic
Cape Barren Goose. Serendip Nature Park
Spotted Pardalote. You Yangs. Normally high in trees and hard to photograph.
White-winged Chough (juv) Yarra River at Pound Bend.
New holland Honeyeater Craigieburn Grass lands
Red-browed Finch. Graigieburn Grasslands
Welcome Swallow WPT
Red-rumped Parrot (AM) Yarra River
Long-billed Corella Yarra River
Gang Gang Cockatoo AF Yarra River
Eastern Rosella Aspendale park
Buff-Banded Rail WPT. Enjoying a bath in the sea.
Brown Falcon WPT
Australian Wood Duck. Darebin Lake
Grey Currawong Darebin Creek.
Golden Whistler Darebin Creek
Shining Bronze Cuckoo Serendip
Red Wattlebird Yarra River
Pipit. Graigieburn Grasslands
Pied Oyster catcher. WPT
Brolga WPT
Chestnut Teals WPT (female and male)
Silvereye. Yarra River
Striated Thornbill_Yarra River at Pound Bend
Wedge Tailed Eagle pursued by little Raven. Graigieburn Grasslands
Sacred Kingfisher. Yarra River
Little Black Cormorant WPT
The following photos are about birds but also the landscape they live in.
Corio Bay at WPT
A lone Raptor surveys the land beneath. Mt. Korong Vic
Teals and reads WPT
Part of the colony of Gannets at Portland Vic.
Ducks at WPT
Ducks at Tuckerbill wetlands NSW
Turns over Corio Bay near WPT
Starlings use social distancing.