Thread: Teakdoor Twitchers Society

Not a great shot in silhouette but I finally got a kosher pucker magpie on my balcony today.

He watched me feeding the butcher birds and looked interested but played it coy in the end.

Originally Posted by reddog

watch him divebomb high school kids and Lycra clad window lickers(cyclists)

Had to dismount on my ride...

To take a photo of the first magpie that has ever swooped me!

He got me both ways up and down the hill!

The jacaranda tree burst into bucolic bloom this week

Attracting a forest gymnast this arvo in the form of a blue-faced honey-eater who was hanging upside down to reach the nectar

Meanwhile Senorita was busy building a rapport with the butcher birds

A Great Cormorant (aka a Black Shag...!) by the lake on my bike ride today

^Errata and Uvavu, that is actually a Little Black Cormorant (aka a Little Black Shag!)

The regular cormorants don't have the emerald feathers on their backs


The Jacaranda blossom continues to attract the birds...

This time a pair of Rainbow Lorikeets

Showing off their green dinner jackets

And they're off

These pink breasted cockatoos from this arvo's ride are Galah's

They have a more melodious song than their more famous screeching white cousins

Great thread, Looper. It is crazy that the Magpies eat out of your hand.
Beautiful birds on this thread.
^Cool pic with the Kangaroos in the background.

^Thank you MM.

Feel free to bang up your birdies from north o' the 49th


The Australian Bin Chicken seen here today in its natural habitat perched atop an Australian bin

(AKA White Ibis - Threskiornis molucca)

A Pandemonium of Pelicans this arvo on the cycle path to the beach

Looks like an Igret. Quite common this time of year, often in pairs in the small field across from our house.

Case closed. Cheers.

Yes, it's an Egret. There are different kinds if Egret (four that I know of in Thailand - Little Egret, Intermediate Egret , Great Egret and Cattle Egret). Dirk's Egret is an Intermediate Egret. The one in PAG's photo is a Great Egret.

A pair of Australian King Parrots rocked up in the rain today.

This is the female with mostly dark green plumage and an orange chest

The male looks like Johnny Rotten with his spiky hair in the wet!

I was trying to tempt this bird with a new snack of hotdog on Sat'day arvo as sausages are more high effort as they need cooked.

Chilean Spanish tutor had relented to a 3rd date in 5 months and even agreed to come to the forest this time. Things are progressing with a slow and delicate rythm. So I got my new Willyesque Zambezian BBQ fired up. It was smoking like a chimney, but with wheels on this one it is easier to trundle it away till it settles down.

The hot dog nutritional conversion seems to have worked and the butcher birds are biting - maybe they would like some mustard.

The forest filled with strange and spooky noises as the full moon did rise upon a swaying tide of windswept eucalypts...

The Zambezi Prison Issue BBQ even settled down into a rhythm after a bit.

Demonic red-eyed black swan in attendance at the lake today

An avian auspice of fair fortune for a picnic with an Amazonian half Swiss half Maori lady bedecked in Kiwi cowrie shells

She agreed to a post-picnic tour of the forest where I had to sing for my supper

And fair fortune did prevail with the waning gibbous moon rising upon a lust-blown balcony

A Rabble of Rainbow Lorikeets spotted today while out on my rounds

Plumage looks beautiful from a distance but they have got quite angry little faces when you get close up

Lorikeets are comical little birds, but as they live on a diet of soft fruit and nectar they're also champion shit sprayers. Kinda like geese: in one minute and out the next.

^I might try and attract them to my menagerie with fruit leftovers since the mango tree is starting to pop


I have never seen Ibises roosting before. Only ever seen them on bins. Huge nest.

A whole extended community roosting in this tree.

This is a rare sight. An Eastern Koel. A type of cuckoo. You normally only hear them with their loud Kooo-ooo as they normally roost up high.

I did my partial portion trick again and it worked. The butcher birds came back for a second sitting after the Dogging Diva of Harare rocked up this arvo.

So she was able to get up close and feathery with them.

She brought a bountiful hamper of dips, chips and King Island cheeses with her so I chipped in the olives and hummus

Two new guests

A bit blurry, but this is a kingfisher sat contemplating life from the branch of one of our small trees next to the khlong behind us.

The small field opposite our house has become a small market garden over the last few years, so the earth is regularly turned over and tilled, making ideal source of grubs and insects for a family of Hoopoe who are resident most of the year. Don't often get a chance to photograph them however a young one was quite close this morning. Unfortunately, couldn't capture a shot with its spectacular crest deployed. Where I formerly lived in south eastern Spain, we would see them quite regularly as well.

I think this was a juvenile Bluefaced Honeyeater hanging on under my Agapanthus

He was quite big but the juveniles don't have the blue patches of bare skin developed on their face

Or possibly some kind of Friarbird

More egrets (I think). This flock was flying southwest early in in the morning, maybe to find some good ride paddies to spend the day at.

A rare red-headed vulture (Sarcogyps calvus) in Huay Kha Khaeng wildlife sanctuary in Uthai Thani has laid its first egg, marking a significant step in ongoing efforts to breed and reintroduce this critically endangered species to Thailand.
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