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Half of @herestheveg - this account for book talk, bird photos and miscellany. Selling bird calendars to raise money for charity
Melbourne, Victoria
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Alright gang, it's calendar time again! They're $30, with all proceeds raising money for BirdLife and the Indigenous Literacy Foundation - you'd be mad not to!
Over 6 years we've raised $72k so far and collected so many amazing pet photos.
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There are 3.5 *million* comments on this blatant piece of boomer bait (including my dad, proudly posting a dozen examples)
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Have never had such a good view of a lyrebird display before! The little jump dance!!! I'm dead
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Got a few good moon/bat shots off the balcony tonight 🦇🌕🦇
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CONFIRMED THE BABY TAWNY IN THE PARK TODAY!
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All 3 falcons have successfully fledged! What a joy they've been this year - not a great time to be a CBD pigeon now.
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Has your child joined a secret Australian birding site?
BRB - Beautiful Rainbow Bee-eater
LOL - Lots of Lorikeets
WTF - Wow! Tawny Frogmouth!
OMG - One More Grebe
BTW - Behold! a Tiny Weebill
AFAIK - Ah Fuck, Another Irritating Koel
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I think I'm going to be posting a *lot* of baby tawnies everyone - feel free to mute me.
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Some cheery colour on this grey day - like a scoop of ice cream with wings.
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A little selection of fairy-wrens that aren't superb: splendid, red-backed, variegated and blue-backed.
#wildoz
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It's been such a delight to spend a couple of Friday mornings up close with a flock of gang gangs out at Banyule. They're incredible and slightly ridiculous birds.
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St Kilda bird drama, with a warning about a magpie nest *strongly* corrected by a local nerd (ty
@hayley_sass
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Easily the best photo of a pink-eared duck's pink ears I've ever managed. (I would still call them zebra ducks if I was in charge)
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It's a bad photo, but the first time I've seen a fairy-wren courting with a tiny flower. He was v proud of himself.
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Got up early and saw the most beautiful fox I've ever seen. It's sad that they're roaming Royal Park, but my god they're stunning creatures.
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Hard to think of a better way to start the day.
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Sick of work? Turn something you love into work so you can be sick of that too!
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Some ludicrously good news from me: I've just won an ARC Future Fellowship, and will get to keep doing interesting work on youth drinking for a few more years yet!
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Are there better birds than yellow-tailed black cockatoos? Maybe, but not many.
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Pop your sound on and enjoy this burbly pal
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Tripped over like an absolute clown trying to get a look, hard not to feel judged
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This person is complaining about an apartment block being built next door to the house they own in Brunswick
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Also spotted: this impossibly well posed scene of a satin bowerbird and its bower.
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Spotted this adorable ringtail possum family on the walk home from the tram last night.
#WildOz
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Incredibly, the five tawny frogmouth nests I checked this morning all made it through last night's mad winds unscathed. I was especially worried for this little champ in Princes Park
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Very successful morning, lyrebirds calling *everywhere* around Sherbrooke, including this impressive displaying male
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I honestly don't know how I'd have coped with 2020 without birding. The seasons are still unfurling in Royal Park, the same as every year - cuckoos & kingfishers arriving, fairy-wrens on display, robins moving on. It's kind of reassuring when time has otherwise lost all meaning.
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This is possibly the best bird photo I've ever taken??? Eastern spinebill juvenile, covered in pollen.
#wildoz
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Took ~800 photos in Princes Park today!! I'm obsessed.
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I know everyone's voting for ibis or powerful owls, but I want to make a short case for the spotted pardalote, possibly the cutest Australian bird. They're 8cm long, dig out burrows to nest in and have a beautiful, recognisable call. And they're gorgeous! Vote 1 pardalote!
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This might be the best photo I've taken this lockdown
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In case you missed it over the weekend: the first egg has arrived!
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Today's random bird: crimson chat! Watching dozens of these feed at a little dam in the mallee is one of my favourite birding memories
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First big guided birding day was just sublime - easily over 100 species seen including some birds I've wanted to see for decades - lilac breasted rollers are just iconic pastel treats. Long thread to follow once I've got time to sort my pics out
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Lockdown day 2 - superb fairy-wren thread today.
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Saw the most endangered bird in Australia this morning - there are less than 50 wild orange-bellied parrots left and their fate looks pretty grim. Amazing to see one, but heartbreaking as well.
#wildoz
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Pretty happy with this portrait of our 2021 bird of the year - from Royal Park
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Cindy (
@herestheveg
) has spent the last 9 months cross-stitching this pattern on her jacket and it's the best thing ever.
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There has never been a better cat and there never will be, I will miss him forever
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My phone is full of pictures of ruffs I downloaded to prove to someone that it's reasonable to visit Finland just to see them.
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Grey butcherbird, spotted pardalote and mistletoebird from my lockdown wander in Royal Park this morning
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Critically endangered swift parrots migrate back and forth to Tassie each year. There's one hanging out in Royal Park right now.
@ParrotOfTheDay
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Another contender for my best photo of all time?? Spotted pardalote (female).
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My library book came with this beautiful note inside. Can't wait to read it.
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There's a whole family of collared sparrowhawks in Royal Park at the moment - lovely to see!
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A reminder that in 2013 before I really got into taking bird pics, I saw this great blue turaco in Uganda. Possibly the most ridiculous bird I've ever seen.
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Ending the year with big professional news - I'm leaving the research group I've worked with since 2006(!) to take up an Assoc Professor role at a new institution.
I'm a mix of excited and completely, utterly freaking out. Should be fun!
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It's really sunk in since March last year that having a well paid job where you tippy-tappy on a keyboard all day and can work flexibly is a ridiculous privilege
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Very cute spotted pardalote times in the park this morning.
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Will I ever get tired of these birds? It seems unlikely.
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Literally just killing time between Wordles at this point
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Just a reminder that you can put the 367 Collins St falcons on in the background and birdwatch through your entire work day.
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The gang gangs are going hog wild for hawthorn berries out at Banyule.
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Today's random bird: spotted pardalote of course. Males have the white head spots and females yellow
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Silvereye, too fixated on feasting to worry about the camera 2m away.
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Lockdown bird
#82
and instant pick-me-up - yellow-tailed black cockatoo (a big flock in the zoo this arvo)
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Not quite as dramatic as the dancing video, but this one had more mimicry in it - we're really so lucky to have these incredible critters so close to Melbourne
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This was an overwhelming experience - a wedge-tailed eagle nestling basically at eye level (I am zoomed in a long way, the chick was not disturbed)
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Daily bird tweet! 🦅
Today - Yellow-tailed black cockatoo
Key facts: Often seen flying in noisy flocks, making the loveliest sound of the Australian bush 🦅 One early name: funereal cockatoo 🦅 Incredibly destructive feeders, destroying trees get get at grubs or seeds 🦅
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Daily bird tweet! 🦅
Today - Red-rumped parrot
Key facts: Commonly known as 'grass parrots' because of their habit of feeding on grass seeds. 🦅 Well adapted to urban life - have become common in metro Melbourne in the past 30 years 🦅 Just super goddamn cute 🦅
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Here you are Australia, your bird of the year: territorial, aggressive, and not smart enough to recognise its own reflection.
Me, never realising that all my problems are self-inflicted.
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OH MY GOD!!!!!!
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Goth cockatoo drinking from someone's grave.
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!!!! Just watched half a dozen swift parrots drinking about 5m away. My heart is full!!
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What if lockdown ending in Melbourne doesn't solve all my problems and make me happy all the time?? What then??
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Folks, I've done the maths: 450 calendars accounted for, raising $7727 after all my printing/postal costs. I'm going to round it up to $8k, so tomorrow I'll donate $4k each to
@BirdlifeOz
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@IndigenousLF
tomorrow.
Thanks for playing along everyone, this is so much fun.
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I take back what I said about this website being good
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A cockatoo at dawn, sometimes the early starts are worth it.
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Daily bird tweet! 🦅
Today - red-capped robin
Key facts: the smallest of the Australian red robins, and usually found in more arid habitat than the others 🦅 strongly territorial in the breeding season 🦅 In Melbourne, found in Woodlands Park, with 5 other robin species 🦅
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Some birders like rare birds, some like gulls spinning around
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One of the Royal Park tawny frogmouth chicks was awake when I wandered past this morning. Just ridiculous.
#wildoz
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Cute spotted pardalote hanging out at eye level in the park today (sound on to hear the call)
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Daily bird tweet! 🦅
Today - gang gang cockatoo
Key facts: another bird named based on an Indigenous language (due to the tragedy of colonisation it's no longer clear which particular one) 🦅 Have become obsessed with introduced Hawthorn berries 🦅Call like a creaky door 🦅
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Some highlights from Plenty Gorge yesterday. It's a pretty great park, and worth exploring.
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It's weird - lockdown is generally v easy for me. I can still work, I live with my best pal(s), my hobbies are good distractions etc etc.
But still: this is fucked, I'm exhausted.
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Daily bird tweet! 🦅
Today - tawny frogmouth.
Key facts: Pretends to be a tree branch🦅Hunts with insects, spiders, lizards etc 🦅 Babies look like muppets 🦅Not an owl.
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Some lovely friends, these two absolute icons, a sunny walk by the yarra and home by 10:30am? Hard to beat.
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The chick itself! All going well, this little thing will be a flying death machine in a matter of months.
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We found this champion on the roadside, stopped to make sure he got clear of any traffic and were rewarded with some spectacular koala acrobatics
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This calendar project has grown from:
120 calendars raising $2k in 2019
550 calendars raising $10k in 2020
700 calendars raising $20k in 2021
I think 700 is probably as many as I can do, but I'm pretty stoked to have raised $32k in total. Now to take some photos for next year!
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