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Gordon Haywood 🇦🇺 @gordonhaywood.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Splendid Fairy Wren hopped right up to me without a care

Gordon Haywood 🇦🇺 @gordonhaywood.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Not been on here for a while now. ME/CFS has struck me down, pretty much house-bound These two have been keeping me company. ❤️ #dogs #pets

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Gordon Haywood 🇦🇺 @gordonhaywood.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Another shot of a Rainbow Bee-eater, on the hunt for a bee. Attack mode engaged! #ausbirds #birds #birdphotography

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Gordon Haywood 🇦🇺 @gordonhaywood.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Another shot of a Rainbow Bee-eater, on the hunt for a bee. Attack mode engaged! #ausbirds #birds #birdphotography

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Gordon Haywood 🇦🇺 @gordonhaywood.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Australian Ring-necked Parrot, this sub-species colloquially named the "28" by french explorers. #ausbirds #birds #birdphotography

The Australian Ringneck is a large parrot, differing in size and plumage in different regions. All are mostly green, with an obvious yellow band on the hind-neck. The Twenty Eight Parrot, subspecies semitorquatus, has a red frontal band and is all green underneath.

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Gordon Haywood 🇦🇺 @gordonhaywood.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Australian Ring-necked Parrot, this sub-species colloquially named the "28" by french explorers. #ausbirds #birds #birdphotography

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Gordon Haywood 🇦🇺 @gordonhaywood.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

What you lookin at!!?? A wide eyed juvenile Tawny Frogmouth. #ausbirds #birds #birdphotography

Tawny Frogmouths are between 34cm (females) and 53cm (males) long and can weigh up to 680g.

Their feathers are soft, like those of owls, allowing for stealthy, silent flight. They have stocky heads with big yellow eyes. Stiff bristles surround their beak and these ‘whiskers’ may help detect the movement of flying insects, and/or protect their faces from the bites or stings of distressed prey (this is not known for certain).
Their beaks are large and wide, hence the name frogmouth.
In this image a juvenile frogmouth is perched on a horizontal branch looking to its left with its right eye wide open to reveal a bright yellow outer ring with a dark iris.

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Gordon Haywood 🇦🇺 @gordonhaywood.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

What you lookin at!!?? A wide eyed juvenile Tawny Frogmouth. #ausbirds #birds #birdphotography

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Gordon Haywood 🇦🇺 @gordonhaywood.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

It's World Red-eared Firetail Finch Day!! Not really celebrated outside Sth West Western Australia but non-the-less here's an image to mark the day. #ausbirds #birds #birdphotography

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Gordon Haywood 🇦🇺 @gordonhaywood.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Found this on another place. I have family in BC. Some folk may find this useful... 🤷‍♂️ #canada #buycanada

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Gordon Haywood 🇦🇺 @gordonhaywood.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

This is the only photo I have of a Wedged Tailed Eagle. It is by far my favourite bird but I refuse to photograph it in captivity, rather I wait for the day when I can photograph one in its natural environment. #birds #ausbirds #birdphotography

The Wedge-tailed Eagle has long wings (wingspan 2.3 m), a characteristic long, wedge-shaped tail, and legs that are feathered all the way to the base of the toes. The bill is pale pink to cream, the eye brown to dark brown, and the feet off-white.
In the photo the Wedge Tailed Eagle is flying to the right

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Theo Moudakis @theomoudakis.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Please enjoy my cartoon for Thursday's Toronto Star

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Gordon Haywood 🇦🇺 @gordonhaywood.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Morning #Bluesky Much cooler here in Perth today, this Little Egret successfully finding breakfast in the shallows. #egret #birds #ausbirds #birdphotography

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Gordon Haywood 🇦🇺 @gordonhaywood.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Morning #Bluesky Much cooler here in Perth today, this Little Egret successfully finding breakfast in the shallows. #egret #birds #ausbirds #birdphotography

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Gordon Haywood 🇦🇺 @gordonhaywood.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Grey Fantail giving me a stare. #ausbirds #birds #birdphotography

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Gordon Haywood 🇦🇺 @gordonhaywood.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Shining Bronze Cuckoo close up. #ausbirds #birds #birdphotography

The shining bronze cuckoo is 13–18 cm (5.1–7.1 in) in overall length, has a wingspan of 25–32 cm (9.8–12.6 in) and weighs around 25 g (0.88 oz). It has metallic golden or coppery green upperparts and white cheeks and underparts barred with dark green. The bill is black and the feet are black with yellow undersides.
In this image the shining bronze cuckoo is perched on a low lying branch pointing away from the camera, the bird is standing facing to the right with its head turned to the left so the left eye is visible.

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Gordon Haywood 🇦🇺 @gordonhaywood.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Ringneck Parrot "28" Western Australian sub species. Noongar: Darlmoorluk

Ringneck parrots are easily recognised by the bright green feathers on the body, black head and bright yellow band of feathers on the back of the neck. They also have blue cheeks and some have yellow on their lower belly. They are up to 38cm long and can often be heard chattering high up in the trees.
In this image the "28" is perched on a branch, the bird is looking to the left, the background is out of focus.

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Gordon Haywood 🇦🇺 @gordonhaywood.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Ringneck Parrot "28" Western Australian sub species. Noongar: Darlmoorluk

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Gordon Haywood 🇦🇺 @gordonhaywood.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

The Galah. A small cockatoo. Noongar Names: Djakal ngakal Full of character and fun. Posing in the soft light of a winter's day. #ausbirds #birds #birdphotography #galah

The galah is about 35 cm (14 in) in length, and weighs 270–350 g (10–12 oz). It has a pale silver to grey back, a pale grey rump, a pink face and breast, and a light pink mobile crest. It has a bone-coloured beak, and the bare skin of the eye ring is carunculated (a small, fleshy excrescence that is a normal part of an animal's anatomy'). It has grey legs.
In the image the galah is perched on a branch diaginal to the camera, it is looking to its left so the right side of its face is visible.

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Gordon Haywood 🇦🇺 @gordonhaywood.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

The Galah. A small cockatoo. Noongar Names: Djakal ngakal Full of character and fun. Posing in the soft light of a winter's day. #ausbirds #birds #birdphotography #galah

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Gordon Haywood 🇦🇺 @gordonhaywood.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Male Spotted Pardalote. Love these little birds. Spend their time in the tree tops, only see them in spring when its breeding season. #birds #ausbirds #pardalote #birdphotography

The Spotted Pardalote is a small bird that is most often high in a eucalypt canopy, so it is more often detected by its characteristic call. The wings, tail and head of the male are black and covered with small, distinct white spots. Males have a pale eyebrow, a yellow throat and a red rump.
In the image a male spotted pardalote is standing on a thin branch looking to the right.

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Gordon Haywood 🇦🇺 @gordonhaywood.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Male Spotted Pardalote. Love these little birds. Spend their time in the tree tops, only see them in spring when its breeding season. #birds #ausbirds #pardalote #birdphotography

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Gordon Haywood 🇦🇺 @gordonhaywood.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Red-eared Firetail. A finch found only in the South West of Western Australia. #ausbirds #birds #birdphotography

The Red-eared Firetail.
The head and neck are brown with fine black barring. There is a small black mask between the base of the bill and the eye (contrasting with a white eye ring), and a bright red ear spot. They have brown upper parts with fine, dark barring, and a bright-red rump and upper tail. The chin, throat and upper breast are slightly paler brown than the upper parts, and also have fine barring, but the rest of the underbody is black with bold white spots.
In this image the Red-eared Firetail is standing on the edge of a stone with its wings upright, and is looking to the right.

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Gordon Haywood 🇦🇺 @gordonhaywood.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Red-eared Firetail. A finch found only in the South West of Western Australia. #ausbirds #birds #birdphotography

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Gordon Haywood 🇦🇺 @gordonhaywood.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

From our trip to NZ in December 24. Northern Royal Albatross. #nzbirds #birds #birdphotography

NORTHERN ROYAL ALBATROSS / TOROA
(Diomedea sanfordi)
Albatross are the world’s largest seabirds. They usually breed on remote offshore islands and spend at least 85% of their lives at sea, well away from land and humans. Dunedin’s Taiaroa Head is the only mainland Royal Albatross breeding colony in the world.

Renowned ocean wanderers, they travel vast distances from their breeding grounds to feed. The Northern Royal Albatross, with its massive three metre wingspan, flies an estimated 190,000 kilometres a year.

These birds are also a taonga species to Māori, highlighting cultural significance and importance.

The breeding birds arrive at Taiaroa Head on Otago Peninsula in September. They nest during early November and within the following three weeks an egg is laid – they are slow breeding birds and lay only one egg per pair every two years.

The parents share incubation duty as it lasts a period of 80 days! The chicks hatch from late January to early February, and both parents take turns at guarding the chick for the first 35 days to protect it from predators. After that the chick is by itself, with parents only returning with food every few days. It takes eight months for the little balls of fluff to become not so little juveniles, and they will finally take their first ever flight in September! 12 months after their arrival at Taiaroa Head, the chicks’ parents finally leave the colony to spend a year at sea before returning to breed again.

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Gordon Haywood 🇦🇺 @gordonhaywood.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Thanks to everyone who took the time to choose and to make comment on the two images. The one on the right is a professional edit, the one on the left is mine (before I received the pro edit). The pro also sent a 35 minute video of the edit process which is a great learning tool. #ausbirds

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Gordon Haywood 🇦🇺 @gordonhaywood.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Opinions please if I may 🙏 Two edits of the same image. Which one do you prefer? Left or Right? Many thanks for your thoughts, the are appreciated. #birds #ausbirds

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Gordon Haywood 🇦🇺 @gordonhaywood.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Opinions please if I may 🙏 Two edits of the same image. Which one do you prefer? Left or Right? Many thanks for your thoughts, the are appreciated. #birds #ausbirds

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Gordon Haywood 🇦🇺 @gordonhaywood.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Joined #Bluesky on 15 Nov 2024 with no real following on X or other Socials. Today I exceeded 1k followers 😀 🙏 This was the first image I posted back in November (re-edited). Baudin's Black Cockatoo #ausbirds #birds #birdphotography

Baudin’s Black-Cockatoo

The body feathers are brownish-black, with narrow off-white tips, making the feathers look scalloped when viewed at close range. They have white patches on their cheeks and white panels on the tail that are particularly visible during flight. The males of the species are distinguished by rings of pink skin around the eye and black bills, while females have grey-black eye rings and bone coloured bills.

Baudin’s bills are long and narrow, with an upper mandible that extends well below the lower. The average size is 55cm.

In this image the Female Baudin's Black Cockatoo is perched on a short thin vertical branch, with its claws wrapped around the branch. It is looking to the right.

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Gordon Haywood 🇦🇺 @gordonhaywood.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Oi! Stop that camera stuff! Australasian Darter giving me the stare. #ausbirds #birds #birdphotography

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Gordon Haywood 🇦🇺 @gordonhaywood.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Another shot of the Tawny Frogmouth, this time with its eye slightly open.... "I can see you" #ausbirds #birds #birdphotography

Tawny frogmouths are stocky and compact with rounded wings and short legs. They have wide, heavy, olive-grey to blackish bills that are hooked at the tip and topped with distinctive tufts of bristles. Their eyes are large and yellow, a trait shared by owls. However, they are not forward facing like an owl's.
In this image the Tawny Frogmouth is perched in a tree, with its eye slighly open, facing left.

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Gordon Haywood 🇦🇺 @gordonhaywood.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Was able to get close to this Nankeen Night Heron and get a good shot of the feather spike (nuptial plumes). #ausbirds #birds #birdphotography

The Nankeen Night Heron is a stocky heron with rich cinnamon upperparts, white-buff underparts, a black crown, and yellow legs and feet. The head is large, the neck short (giving a stooped appearance), and the legs relatively short. During breeding the back of the head bears three white nuptial plumes. The bill is dark olive green, and the eyes are yellow.
In this image the Nankeen Night Herin is standing on a dead branch above a small lake, looking to the right.

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Gordon Haywood 🇦🇺 @gordonhaywood.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Australasian Darter preening at a lake in Perth. Really happy with this image, the colours in the wings arent usually quite as obvious. #darter #ausbirds #birds

The Australasian Darter.
The Darter is a large, slim water bird with a long snake-like neck, sharply pointed bill, and long, rounded tail. Male birds are dark brownish black with glossy black upperwings, streaked and spotted white, silver-grey and brown. The strongly kinked neck has a white or pale brown stripe from the bill to where the neck kinks and the breast is chestnut brown.
In this image the Australasian Darter is standing on a dear branch facing away from the camera, with its head turn over its back, wings are spread.

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Gordon Haywood 🇦🇺 @gordonhaywood.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Went out this morning hoping to see a family of Tawny Frogmouths. Unfortunately could only locate one, this one, which was sound asleep in a eucalypt. #ausbirds #birds #birdphotography

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Gordon Haywood 🇦🇺 @gordonhaywood.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Been quiet on here. Was accredited for World Rugby Sevens here in Perth so spent the day there yesterday, and today working through the photos. In other news Daughter and Son in Law announced impending birth of child No. 2 So congratulations all round. Had a wee dram to celebrate. #hsbcsvns

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