Litchfield/Florence Falls/Tjaetaba Falls

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Birds seem to be getting ready for starting new families, Fern-leaved Grevillea continue to feed the multitudes, Swamp Bloodwoods provide a stunning red to the canvas and reptiles manage on top of the falls where cane-toads have yet to conquer.
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Shining Flycatcher Myiagra alecto male
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Merten’s Water Monitor Varanus mertensi
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Pygmy Percher Nannodiplx rubra
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Jacksonian dilatata
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Swamp Bloodwood Eucalyptus ptychocarpa
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Common Crow Euploea core
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Walking In my Own Footsteps

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I walked on the Adelaide River Flood Plains early in the morning on consecutive days. One morning was still with dew until mid morning, the next was windy, cold and dry. On the morning that a mist hung over the flood plains I saw many insects and many spider webs. On the next morning which was dry I saw few insects and no spider webs even though I walked in my own footsteps.
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Orange Tiger Danaus genutia
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Forestwatcher Huonia melvillensis
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Tent-Web Spider of an unidentified Cyrtophora spider
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On Foot At The Adelaide River

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Planned an early morning stroll using Google Earth near a spot I once got a permit to cut down some bamboo adjacent to the Adelaide River. After walking four hours, basically alone, and wandering along a game track with an occasional feral pig bog, I returned to my vehicle. About 100 meters away I heard an interesting din and to my relief I found some friends. As per usual its better to not try and think like a bird just hit the trail and use your ears as a map.
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Broad-billed Flycatcher Myiagra ruficollis
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Chestnut Breasted Mannikin Lonchura castaneothorax
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Little Grassbird Megalurus gramineus
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Mangrove Golden Whistler Pachycephala melanura
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Arafura Fantail Rhipidura dryas
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Wetlands NT Style

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A walk near the “Window To The Wetlands” has its rewards besides just keeping fit. I never quite made it to the “Window” but seem to have quite a view from where I am standing.
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Palemouth Brachydiplax denticauda female
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Comb-crested Jacana Irediparra gallinacean
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Lemon bellied Flycatcher Microeca flavigaster
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Goannas Aranus gouldii
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Mangrove Robin Eopsaltria pulverulenta
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Pied Heron Ardea picata
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Restless Flycatcher Myiagra inquieta Pair at nest
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Arafura Fantail Rhipidura dryas
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Varied Triller Lalage leucomela female
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Willie Wagtail Rhipidura leucophrys
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Umbrawarra George-Winged Fauna

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Blue Argos Junonia orithya
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Banded Honeyeater Certhiinyx pectoralis
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Little Woodswallow Artemus minor
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Mistletoebird Dicaeum hirundinaceum male
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White-gaped HoneyEater Lichenostomus unicolour
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Rufous Whistler Pachycephala rufiventris female
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Rufous Whistler Pachycephala rufiventris male
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The Wrong Side Of A ButcherBird

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The Grey Butcherbird Cracticus torquatus race argenteus from the side view, like in the Field Guide To Australian Birds (Simpson & Day) is not an exciting bird to look at.
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Perhaps a view from the back is the best angle to view this highly symmetrical and intricately coloured bird. For one, I was very impressed with this young bird’s character and certainly his exquisite silver backside.
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Umbrawarra Gorge

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When I walk into a new place I sometimes feel
as though a lot of “Me” disappears for awhile.

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Umbrawarra Gorge Cliffs
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The Fern-leaved Grevillea was feeding everyone.
Grevillea pteridifolia
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The Kapok Bush was near its end as the huge numbers of Red-winged Parrots saw that it was spread as far as the eye could see.
Cochlospermum fraseri
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The ever present supply of running water supported the Bladderwort.
Utricularia fulva
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The fruit of the Owenia vernicosa was ripening.
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The beauty of the Osbeckia Australiana was fading yet it had found a foothold in the cliff seep that made its way to the still flowing pools.
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Three Days Of The Shining Flycatcher

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I first saw a glimpse of this bird under a mangrove tree. I returned the next day only to get a look at it sitting on a branch in pure sunshine but by the time I raised my camera and focus all I saw was a bouncing branch. I also noticed it seemed to earn a living moving through the mangrove understorey as the tide went out. So day three arrived and I went to a couple of places I thought it might be revisiting and there it was. I then managed to work ahead and pick what I thought would be a sunlit break in the mangrove thicket and was even more surprised when it bounded into the sunlight and waited long enough for me to catch these two photos.
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Female Shining Flycatcher Myiagra alecto
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While I was waiting for the tide to turn I caught a glimpse of several
Pop-eye mullet Squalomugil nasutus. What a bow wave!
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Mighty But Small

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Walking around the bush I often see small birds as a quick, darting, silhouetted flash.
However, since I have started taking a few snaps the word must have gotten around because mighty but small birds have started landing closer than I ever imagined wild birds would do. It's as if they want to get their picture taken.
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Yellow White-eye Zosterops lutea
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Red-backed Fairy Wren Maurus melanocephalus
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Red-headed Honeyeater Myzomela erythrocephala
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Grey Whistler Pachycephala simplex
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Buffalo Creek Day Walk

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Red-headed Honeyeater Myzomela erythrocephala
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Lemon-bellied Flycatcher Microeca flavigaster
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Red-browed Pardalote Pardaloyus rubricatus
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Plants-Cox Peninsula Day Walk

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Grevillia helosperma
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Cycas armstrongii
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