Holmes Jungle

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A quiet walk and as usual birds like to hang around places they can get a drink.
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Bar-breasted Honeyeater Ramsayornis fasciatus
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Sacred kingfisher Todirhampus sancta
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Crimson Finch Neochmia phaeton & friend
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Sunset Bath

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A long lens caught the action but still only my first encounter with the Chestnut Rail.
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Chestnut Rail Eulabeornis castaneoventris
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Strolling to a suitable pool, close to cover
for a quick retreat if necessary.
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Getting in after checking out a few morsels
around the driftwood.
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Get the feathers wet!
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Really Shake it!
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Getting to the hard-to-reach places!
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Letting everyone know you are feeling it!
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Dry off and run back to the Mangroves.
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A Full Day In The NT

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It is possible to cover many habitats in the NT in a single long day, but I usually wake up with at least a few sore muscles as a result. We walked the river floodplains, swamp and creek habitats and were rewarded with some coloursom inhabitants.
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Lotus Lilly Nelumbo nucifera
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Freshwater Mangrove Barringtonia acutangula
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Purple Swamphen Porphyrio porphyrio
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Comb-crested Jacana lrediparra gallinacea juv
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Red-headed Honeyeater Myzomela erythrocephala juv
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Blue Skimmer Orthetrum caledonicum
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Colourful Bluetail Ischnura pruinescens
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Black Butcherbird Cracticus quoyi
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Such a Poser
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Darter Anhinga melanogaster
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Fire And Water

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Separated by less than three kilometres, the open woodland and the mangrove habitats could not have been any more different for their usual inhabitants.
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Darter Anhinga melanogaster juv
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Striated Heron Ardeola stiatus race cinereus
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Northern Fantail Rhipidura rufiventris
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Whistling Kite Milvus sphenurus
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Destruction on a grand scale!
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Spelling both short and long term change for one of my favourite locals.
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Howard Springs Morning Walk

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A beautiful stroll early in the morning with shinning results.
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Shinning Flycatcher Myiagra alecto male
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Shinning Flycatcher Myiagra alecto female
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Rainbow Pitta Pitta iris
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A Walk On The Wild Side

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Walking in the bush is exciting and to find a variety of habitats without a lot of human intervention even more exciting. Monsoon vine forest edges with open woodlands; mangrove and salt marshes butting up against paperbark avenues mixed with pandanus groves provides a wealth of opportunities if you're in the right place at the right time.
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My first feral pig Sus scrofa sighting. I yelled and whistled when I was standing just near a climbable tree but they payed me the ultimate insult: they just ignored me.
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I saw a lot of Kingfishers and Kookaburra, but very shy. This kookaburra was along way away and seemed to be having a "very bad feather day"!
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Blue-winged Kookaburra Dacelo leachii
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Forest Kingfisher Todirhanphus macleayii
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Of course the water lilies were a spectacular participant in the morning sunlight.
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Water Lilly Nelumbo nucifera
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Water Lilly Nelumbo nucifera
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Green Skimmer Orthetrum serapia
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The flowers of the Cocky Apple Planchonia careya provide the attraction for the ants and the Mistletoe Bird Dicaeum hirundinaceum male juv eats the unidentified ants.
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Once again, its nice to see reptiles before the onset of toads.
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Burton's Legless Lizard Lialis burtonis
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The More I see the More Questions I have

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Sunrise On the Cox Peninsula
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Swamp-Tiger Danaus affinis
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Orange Tiger Danaus genutia
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Cycad Cycas armstingii
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Bar-breasted Honeyeater Ramsayornis fasciatus
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Spangled Drongo Dicrurus bracteatus Where is it's tail?
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Could this possibly be a Striated Pardalote's Pardalotus striatus nest?
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Night And Day

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A trip to the Cox Peninsula gave me a chance to see birds usually associated with night stalking, flowers that are only fresh and erect on the morning they emerge, dirt eating birds I mistook for Sulphur-crested Cockatoos, an easy to photograph reptile and another lucky shot of a classy bird in flight.
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Bush Thick-knee Burhinus grallarius
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Spotted Nightjar Eurostopodus argus
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Cocky Apple Planchonia careya with an unidentified Native Bee
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Little Corella Cacatua pastinator race gymnopis
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Northern Blue-tongued Skinks Tiliqua scincoides intermedia
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Broad-billed Flycatcher Myiagra ruficollis
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