Our great southern migration

Although snow was seen in parts of Australia this December, the Potato Point area was warm and not unusually white. So you get white birds in honor of the season. The bird above is the white browed babbler, not to be confused with the white-browed scrub wren below!  The scrub wrens seem to be scowling most times. They definitely have a scolding approach to life.  The white throated tree creepers became easier to photograph after Scott explained their habit is to move up one trunk and then fly to the base of the next tree and repeat the process: I followed something else into the scrub and found this juvenile white-winged chough (above). As adults, these birds look like chunky crows. Not adorable as youngsters, either.  In earlier posts you got to see the white-cheeked honey eaters so can refer back to N is for New Holland if you want a more complete representation.  On a larger scale, the white-bellied sea eagles (Dad's sea gulls according to the kids) are common at ...

  This guy was sitting across the river, waiting to be noticed. We were carefully watching the river for platypus (none seen) and then looked up to see him preening. Flame robin!  This small one is a scarlet honeyeater - they don't sit still very long and develop the red heads over time (like goldfinches turning more golden) Another small one with red parts - red-browed firetail finch. They are even smaller and are typically on the ground. One of the first small birds I chased down with the camera. This pic is one of Scott's.  Scott saw a firetail finch without a red brow as we were investigating a park in Victoria, Aus. However, I missed the shot and we didn't find it again. And this guy has a red butt - red-rumped parrot. We saw this particular parrot at Aunt Berenice's farm but found more on travels through Victoria We are currently in Goolwa, South Australia. To get to this state, we passed from New South Wales and through Victoria. We stopped at two cities along th...