My, how time flies! I have just checked and
it has been a year since my last post. As I look back on the last 12 months I
see one of the reasons for a lack of posts is a lack of new birding locations,
just repeats of old favourites.
There have been some wonderful trips and
weekends but just none that inspired me to do a blog. So, I have decided this
is going to be a precis of the last twelve months to bridge from the last 2016
blog to what could be a very busy few months coming up with new places and new
birds. My next planned blog will be in mid November.
The images in this blog are chronological
and give a glimpse of my meanderings over the last year.
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| The iconic Christmas Island bird, the Golden Bosun. This is the endemic golden race, Phaethon lepturus fulvus, of the White-tailed tropicbird. |
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| This cafe is THE place to get breakfast after an early morning of birding, as long as one is not on a diet. The food is excellent and varies day to day. |
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| Christmas Island Gecko |
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| Waiting for swifts to arrive overhead at "swift alley", out by the new detention centre. |
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| Common Emerald Dove, Chalcophaps indica |
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| Male Frigatebird asleep on a hot day. If one has an inflatable pillow, why not use it? |
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| Not the best photo in the world but I love the quirky idea of smartening up a derelict forklift |
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| Oceania House or "The Big House", built by the Clunies-Ross family and now being used as a B&B. |
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| Diningroom in Oceania House. The current owners have filled the house with period furnishings. |
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| The Cocos Keeling Islands is not just birding, it is also world renown for diving, kite-surfing and here, Bone-fishing from a purpose-built boat. There was a luxury motor-yacht moored nearby. |
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| The ferry between Home Island and West Island |
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| The new ferry jetty on West Island |
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| My easiest "mega" pelagic seabird ever. A Barau's Petrel circling over the end of the Cocos airport runway |
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| Eurasian Hobby in Perth on my way home from Christmas Island |
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| Noisy Miner in central Vitoria |
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| Australian Hobby near Bendigo, Victoria. |
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| Rainbow Lorikeet |
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| Grey Petrel off Eaglehawk Neck, Tasmania |
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| Southern Royal Albatross off Eaglehawk Neck, Tasmania with a Shy Albatross in the background |
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| Three Minke Whales off Eaglehawk Neck, Tasmania |
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| Dolphin coming in fast from astern to catch a ride on the bow wave as we head back into port |
All images & text © Jenny Spry
