Using salvaged materials and plenty of ingenuity, a young couple in Jugiong, NSW, has reinvented an old shearer's quarters, now known as 'The Quarters'.
Having a stretch
It might be a long time before I ever get another opportunity like this! These birds are tough to photograph! We found a pair at Green Cay Wetlands, Florida. Enjoy!....
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Great Bittern
It never was my fortune to have a good opportunity of observing all the habits of this very remarkable bird, which, in many respects, differs from most other Herons. It is a winter resident in the...
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Little Bittern Ixobrychus Minutus
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This young sun bittern thought he was being challenged by another bird in the Blackburn Pavilion, London Zoo
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Eurasian Bittern (Great Bittern)
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Stocky, brown heron found in extensive reedbeds; typically very secretive. Seen mainly as single birds in flight, especially early and late in the day. Stealthy and easily overlooked; cryptic plumage blends well with reeds. Note tawny-brown face and neck, blackish cap, streaked upperparts. Bizarre
The Eurasian Bittern is unmistakable – if you can catch a glimpse of it, for it is excellently adapted to life in reedbeds. Its plumage is yellow-brown and golden-brown with black markings and dark vertical stripes on the upperparts. This makes it look “reedy”, and despite its height, it is well camouflaged in the reedbeds. Its movements are very cautious and hardly betray it even when it stands on the edge of a reedbed. When alarmed, it adopts a frozen camouflage position with neck and bill stretched upward to the sky. Merely in spring, the male attracts attention in the breeding areas with its loud, deep and coarse territorial call.
This little guy is around three weeks old and stands about three inches tall. They are TINY. They are the smallest of all herons in the Americas. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Least_Bittern This is the first time I saw him grasp the vertical bulrush like the adults do, up till now he had only walked on horizontal reeds. As with all my flickr images, the full size original (not the flickr original) looks much better than the flickr pics. View On Black
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Black-backed Bittern (Ixobrychus dubius)
