@milliganreports.bsky.social What a heartbreaking and yet also heartwarming story. Beautifully written! Loved #Shellybanks ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Buller's Albatross in heavy seas off southeast Australia. #SuperSeabirdSunday #seabirds

Sooty Oystercatcher staying ahead of the incoming waves at Ulladulla. #shorebirds #birds #WildOz

Hooded Plover says N0! These little Australian #shorebirds are critically endangered here in NSW with only 60-70 left. (Fortunately, they are doing better in Vic, Tas, SA and WA.) #birds #WildOz

Kookaburra sitting in an old gum tree (as prescribed) at Booderee Botanic Gardens. #birds #WildOz

Sooty Oystercatcher at Ulladulla. #shorebirds #birds #WildOz

Red-capped Plover at Ulladulla. #shorebirds #birds #WildOz

New Holland Honeyeater at Ulladulla with a Pacific Ocean background. #birds #WildOz

Diamond Firetail at Rocky Hall. (Apologies for the steep angle. By the time I'd got flat on the ground for a much better photo, this bird had flown :) #birds #WildOz

From the archives: three Cormorant species together (Little Pied, Pied, Great) at Haycock Point in southeast Australia. #SuperSeabirdSunday #seabirds

Welcome Swallow. #birds #WildOz

Little Wattlebird taking off from a casuarina in my backyard. #backyardbirds #birds #WildOz

Fairy Prion in southeast Australian waters. #SuperSeabirdSunday #seabirds #WildOz

Golden Bosun at Christmas Island (Indian Ocean). This golden form of White-tailed Tropicbird is a Christmas Island special. #SuperSeabirdSunday #seabirds #WildOz

White-headed Pigeon posing for a portrait on my back deck in Merimbula this evening. A handsome pigeon from the wetter forests of eastern Australia. Fortunately, I have a well forested gully over my back fence, so these birds are regular visitors. #backyardbirds #birds #WildOz

Crimson Rosella moulting into its adult plumage feeding in a grevillea in my backyard. #backyardbirds #birds #WildOz

Rainbow Lorikeets preening each other after some rain. #backyardbirds #birds #WildOz

Grey Goshawk in my Merimbula backyard! #birds #WildOz #backyardbirds

Black-browed Albatrosses. #SuperSeabirdSunday #seabirds

Tawny Frogmouth at Tantawangalo. #birds #WildOz

Tawny Frogmouths at Tantawangalo. #birds #WildOz

Square-tailed Kite (minus a few feathers :) over my Merimbula backyard this afternoon. #backyardbirds #birds #WildOz bsky.app/profile/leo-...

What bird is that disappearing over the treetops? #birds #WildOz

Budgerigar in southwest Queensland four years ago. Love these beautiful little parrots! 😍

Roo with a view! Eastern Grey Kangaroo on Nelson Beach in Mimosa Rocks National Park with rough seas as a backdrop. #WildOz

Little Tern at Nelson Lagoon in Mimosa Rocks National Park. #seabirds #birds #WildOz

Little Tern chick at Nelson Lagoon in Mimosa Rocks National Park this morning. This youngster should be fully fledged in the next day or two. #SuperSeabirdSunday #seabirds #WildOz

Little Tern preening at Nelson Lagoon in Mimosa Rocks National Park this morning. New location for a colony. This season: 100+ Little Terns, 49 nests and a good hatching and survival rate. Currently 12+ fledglings with more expected over the next two weeks. #SuperSeabirdSunday #seabirds #WildOz

Newly fledged Little Tern in Mimosa Rocks National Park this morning. #SuperSeabirdSunday #seabirds #WildOz

White-headed Pigeon on my back deck in Merimbula this evening. #backyardbirds #birds #WildOz

Almost forgot about #SuperSeabirdSunday but here’s an old favourite. Newly fledged Little Tern at Mogareeka in southeast Australia.

We all get lucky sometimes! Wordle 1,659 2/6 🟨🟨🟨🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Satin Bowerbird on my back deck in Merimbula (a few years ago :). #backyardbirds #birds #WildOz

While we nervously await the inevitable arrival of H5N1 here in Australia, @steelyseabirder.bsky.social offers a glimmer of hope from the Isle of May.

Pacific Gull taking off at Merimbula Beach. #SuperSeabirdSunday

Golden-headed Cisticola at Panboola this morning. #birds #WildOz

Fairy Tern with a courtship gift in southeast Australia. #SuperSeabirdSunday #seabirds #WildOz

Common Noddy at Christmas Island in 2023. #SuperSeabirdSunday #seabirds

White Tern preening at Lord Howe Island last year. #SuperSeabirdSunday #seabirds #WildOz

Aurora australis in Merimbula tonight (iPhone from my bedroom window :)

Red-footed Booby carrying nesting material at Christmas Island. #SuperSeabirdSunday #seabirds #WildOz

Gonna need a new starter word. 😊 Wordle 1,603 1/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Striated Thornbill at the Australian National Botanic Gardens (from the archives) #birds #WildOz

Golden Bosuns at Christmas Island (Indian Ocean). This golden form of White-tailed Tropicbird is a Christmas Island special. #SuperSeabirdSunday #seabirds #WildOz

Yellow-rumped Thornbill at Panboola. #birds #WildOz

Red-capped Plover at Mogareeka this morning. #shorebirds #birds #WildOz

White Terns in front of an incoming storm at Lord Howe Island last year. #SuperSeabirdSunday #seabirds #birds #WildOz

Hooded Plover foraging on Haycock Beach (from the archives). These beautiful little #shorebirds are critically endangered here in NSW and we do all we can to help them survive. #birds #WildOz

@emmaswiftsings.bsky.social Pre-ordered CD of Resurrection Game arrived today in my little corner of Australia. Big thanks to Ruth for sending it! Straight to the top of the playlist for tonight! 😊

Beach Stone-curlew in Beowa National Park this morning. A decade ago, this would have been a rare sighting here in southeast Australia but we see them every year now. #shorebirds #birds #WildOz