Nankeen Night-Heron showed up on our dam last week, which was very nice of since I got to record it in my #AussieBirdCount surveys. Doesn’t like having its photo taken, but I finally got it! #ausbirds

My children have set up a box from which to spy on the brown cuckoo-doves. The cuckoo-doves are suspicious of the giggling box but not enough to pass up the offer of seeds.

Succeeded at my Snipe hunt today ✅ #ausbirds

Some releases are exciting and beautiful celebrations of freedom, as the animal flies/hops/runs away from us. Echidna releases are…. not like that. Safe travels little one! #wildliferehab #auswildlife

Female Scarlet Myzomela - they look so delicate. #ausbirds

This week we’ve been monitoring regent parrot breeding- look at this little cutie 😭🩵😇

A great day of birding for #OctoberBigDay - we finished with 86 species, 3 lifers for me, and a sunburn because I forgot to pack sunscreen. #ausbirds #ebird

Ah yes, the elegant Great Egret. So graceful. #ausbirds

Scruffy little Eastern Yellow Robin fledgling ❤️ #ausbirds

Found this cutie while gardening yesterday. A Three-toed Skink! 🦎#auswildlife #backyardwildlife

Black-necked Stork showed up at the local wetlands. Legs for daysssss #ausbirds

Hooray for migratory shorebird season starting 👏👏👏 #ausbirds

Did our spring Waterbug survey today. Please enjoy this video of the gills on this mayfly larva.

Gotcha! The Emu-wren decided to play nice today and let me take a picture. There were a pair actually, it was a great day for birding. #ausbirds #wildoz

We've lived on this property for 13 years and I've been trying to catch a quoll on my trail cams basically since we moved in. Never seen one. But today one turned up and tried to break into the (fortunately secure) aviary. This is the most exciting thing ever. #wildoz #ausmammals

It started pouring with rain on our walk yesterday. Anyway fun fact turns out pelicans drink rainwater by just sitting there with their bills open. They even moved to align themselves with the direction the rain was coming in. So that's cool. #ausbirds #wildoz #pelican

A Wedge-tailed Eagle showed up at the wetlands yesterday. The resident pair of Black-shouldered Kites were very unhappy about it. #ausbirds #wildoz

It’s amazing well these little guys camouflage in the grass. (Red-rumped Parrot) #ausbirds #wildoz

The way rails flick their tails while foraging is the cutest. (Buff-banded Rail) #ausbirds #wildoz

This shade of blue. 👌 Male Variegated Fairywren. #ausbirds #wildoz

Babe I got you a Rose (Robin). #ausbirds

My seven year old described Royal Spoonbills as having a mullet and now I can't unsee it. #ausbirds #wildoz

Female King Parrot, blending in. #ausbirds

Found a seal at the beach while birding. Never seen one here before so that was cool. #auswildlife

Look at this little cutie moulting into his Fancy Plumage in the most adorable way possible by starting with his cheeks. #ausbirds #fairywren #wildoz

Went looking for the emu-wren again. No luck there but I got a nice picture of a Yellow-faced Honeyeater. #ausbirds

This isn't a good photo but I'm ridiculously excited to have seen my first Southern Emu-wren today. #ausbirds #wildoz

Prettiest baby #ausbirds

There are loads of Black-faced Cuckoo-shrikes at my local wetlands lately. #ausbirds

Okay back to little brown birds. This one is very little and very brown. (Brown Thornbill). #ausbirds #wildoz

Might be winter but it was sunny enough today for this beautiful Red-Bellied Black Snake to emerge. 🐍 #auswildlife #wildoz #herps

Today I was having a cup of tea with my Nan when a Noisy Pitta hopped across her garden, which may well be the luckiest thing that will ever happen to me as a birder because they're normally very elusive and have to be searched for in rainforests and such. #ausbirds #wildoz #birding

Another day, another little brown bird. This one is a Brown Honeyeater. #ausbirds #wildoz

My little brown bird for today is a Large-billed Scrubwren. #ausbirds #wildoz

I'm really into little brown birds right now. Tawny Grassbird. #ausbirds #wildoz

I'd probably yell too if I had to do the splits like that. (Golden-headed Cisticola) #ausbirds #wildoz

At the kid’s soccer game this morning and kept getting distracted by a pair of Ospreys building a nest on top of the lights. #ausbirds #wildoz

I love pardalotes so much. #ausbirds #wildoz

We released a female Gang-Gang this week, she’d been hit by a car and spent a few weeks in care recovering. The very next day a flock of 9 showed up on our lane. I’d like to think it was her flock. This gorgeous boy sat and watched me curiously. #wildliferehab #ausbirds #wildoz

Glanced out my bedroom window while getting dressed and look what I spotted. Naturally they took off by the time I fetched my actual camera. #ausbirds #wildoz

Nature is so fucking weird. #entomology 🐛 #wildoz

My mother, who is learning pottery, made me a Brush-Turkey butter dish. It is wonderful and will hopefully keep the ants out. #ausbirds #pottery

This picture is not doing the vibrant yellow of this Yellow-tufted Honeyeater justice. Anyway that’s a lifer for me. 😊 #ausbirds #wildoz

The Leadbeater’s possum has just been detected in Kosciusko National Park. This extraordinary discovery is the first live record of this Critically Endangered species outside of Victoria. See what the experts have to say about the discovery: biodiversitycouncil....

I could see pardalotes every day of my life and I’d still be delighted every time. #ausbirds #wildoz

Always tempted to pet the furry creatures I find in the forest. #fungi

Happy to see at least one of the local wombats survived the flooding and is back home. #wildoz #ausmammals

We’re now on day 6 of being trapped in our street by flood waters and today, finally, there is a blue sky. The birds are enjoying the new lake, but hopefully it will start to drain away soon.

We saw four (4!) different raptor species on our wetlands wander today but this young Sea-Eagle was the highlight. It was a good day for birds. #ausbirds #WildOz

My kids: “Mum, Mum, quick! There’s an eagle on the driveway!” The eagle: