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John Cook 🇦🇺🧑🏼‍🦽‍➡️🚲 @harryheadbanger.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A black-necked stork doing a size comparison with an egret in the first picture and a wader party in the second picture, it was quite windy at times, with strong gusts. It was an orange afternoon light. The Borrow pits, Townsville. #BirdOfTheDay #Waders

A black-necked stork on the left compared in size to an egret on the right, in afternoon light, they are standing in a body of blue green water.

Wader party, there were cormorants, darters, egrets, white Ibis and a grebe lurking about.
White birds on blue grey water in the foreground, dark birds on the grassy green bank in the background receding to reeds further back

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John Cook 🇦🇺🧑🏼‍🦽‍➡️🚲 @harryheadbanger.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A great bower bird getting stuck into a nice fresh mango, and enjoying it. Townsville, a few mango seasons ago. #BirdOfTheDay #Eating

A great bower bird, a piece of yellow mango in its black beak.
It has black eyes and light tan legs, a grey head and light tan grey body, the wings and tail is a banded pattern of light grey feathers with black bands.
The bird is standing and facing slightly to the right.
Foreground is an oval large green mango.
Green weeds and brown leaf litter on the ground.

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John Cook 🇦🇺🧑🏼‍🦽‍➡️🚲 @harryheadbanger.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Magpie goose that lives in the culvert in amongst the chaos of a major intersection at the corner of Anderson Gardens, Townsville. #Birds #BirdOfTheDay #RedHeads #WildOz

A medium to large bird in amongst water lilies, it has a grey beak and a red face, dark eyes, a black neck with a white body and wings, black end of wing and tail.
The bird is floating facing left.

The magpie goose was quite unconcerned by my presence.

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John Cook 🇦🇺🧑🏼‍🦽‍➡️🚲 @harryheadbanger.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

There were three red-backed fairy wrens, non breeding colours or female. Two were kind enough to stop briefly, sun and water confused my budget camera, but it is my first capture of them, great birds to watch flitting about. My first Wrensday. The borrow pits, Townsville #Wrensday #Birds #WildOz

A Y shaped brown branch with highlights of afternoon sunlight, blue grey water behind.
There is a small brown bird middle left and another upper right showing off its brown tail, they appear to be looking at each other.

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John Cook 🇦🇺🧑🏼‍🦽‍➡️🚲 @harryheadbanger.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

An elegant white-faced heron turns to look at me and the wind gusts turn it into a scruffy disillusioned looking creature The borrow pits, drying out. Townsville #Birds #BirdOfTheDay #Elegant #Scruffy

A white-faced heron looking into the wind to the right, standing on a small island with various grasses and sticks laying horizontally, it has an air brushed looking white face with a yellow eye and dark beak, a grey back,wings and tail with a lighter grey underside and yellow legs.

The white-faced Herron notices me and turns to look at me, the wind from the side makes it look quite untidy, scruffy, the only scruffy heron in the body of water

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John Cook 🇦🇺🧑🏼‍🦽‍➡️🚲 @harryheadbanger.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A Red-tailed black cockatoo, up the top of the neighbours palm, it was raining. You can hear a mob of these from a long way off. There were many more mixed into the foliage of the tree below the palm, with a few young ones. Townsville #Birds #BirdOfTheDay #Silhouette #WildOz

A large Red-tailed black cockatoo, seen in silhouette, the bird looked ruffled, it was raining, looking to the right at the top of a palm, grey sky behind.

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John Cook 🇦🇺🧑🏼‍🦽‍➡️🚲 @harryheadbanger.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I’m not going to try angry bird face, I have enough trouble picking human expressions. A White-Necked Heron And a Black-Necked Stork, ebony and ivory with a touch of Prince on the stork. The borrow pits Townsville #BirdOfTheDay #MyBestSide #WildOz

The white-necked Herron is facing left, in the afternoon sun, standing in water with a line of mud in the bottom of the picture.
It has a dark beak, eyes, wings and legs.
There is a reflection on the water, bird and blue sky.

A black-Necked stork, looking majestic and facing to the left.
It has a black bill, eyes and neck, visible bits of its body are white, the wings and tail are back and it has long orange legs.
The black feathers mainly the neck and head are reflecting back dark blue and green shining colours.
Standing in wind rippled water, the wind was quite variable quite strong at times greenish water, there is a slight reflection on the water and bits of weedy sticks sticking up.

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John Cook 🇦🇺🧑🏼‍🦽‍➡️🚲 @harryheadbanger.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

A Great bower bird. On the ground, within the dancing range of a bower, a juvenile male or a female, males have a pink patch on the back of a neck in breeding season, the mouth is open, probably yelling/calling, they yell at everything #Birds #BirdOfTheDay Alt #Grounded #WildOz

The bird Is standing and facing left with its dark bill open, the inside is yellow, the eye is black.
It has a brown body and head, grey legs and darker brown wing feathers with white tips, the tail is similar.
There is green foliage above and a ridged grey and black trunk to the left, the ground is brown and grey leaf litter.
The birds dance around the tree trunk, the male will hold an item in its mouth, red or green cherries here, the bower is where the mating happens.
Every bower I have seen opens north to south.

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John Cook 🇦🇺🧑🏼‍🦽‍➡️🚲 @harryheadbanger.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The Black-necked stork, it was a fair way off. The iridescent black head and neck feathers reflect back an iridescent blue, the legs are orange to red. Females have yellow irises It does a dance, wings spread to scare prey into the open. The borrow pits Townsville #Birds #BirdOfTheDay #BrightAccents

The Black-neck stork, when the sun reflects of the head and neck feathers it reflects an irradecent black, and blue, the legs are red and its wings black it has a long dagger like beak.
It’s a large bird fishing in a small lake.

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John Cook 🇦🇺🧑🏼‍🦽‍➡️🚲 @harryheadbanger.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

A bush stone-curlew with its eyes closed, it looks quite calm sitting up in a relaxed position, if they have eggs or young they usually flatten out. But not always. Townsville #BirdOfTheDay #BirdNaps

A bush stone-curlew in dappled light with its eyes closed, this is rare for me.
It's facing slightly to the right with a dianella plant in front, on brown and grey leaf litter, water visible in the top background.
A great patch from the top of its head to its tail, grey markings around its eyes and a black bill.
The vest is white with streaks of brown and the rest is patterns of grey and brown of various shades.

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John Cook 🇦🇺🧑🏼‍🦽‍➡️🚲 @harryheadbanger.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

A white faced heron, silhouetted by the sun in the background, the bird is wriggling its left foot in the mud to liberate prey, making ripples. Surrounded by light blue grey water. The borrow pits. Townsville #BirdOfTheDay #Contrast #WildOz

A white faced heron, agitating the mud with its left foot to scare out prey.
Facing left and standing, the white face can be seen, there is a reflection in the light grey blue water.
And a circle of ripples.

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John Cook 🇦🇺🧑🏼‍🦽‍➡️🚲 @harryheadbanger.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The Bush Stone-Curlew parent, if any of the micro sprinklers in the garden fails, they let me know, they do like playing in water as well as the worms that congregate around it in soft soil. Townsville. #Birds #BirdIfTheDay #Parenting

The bush stone-curlew with a chick, that is their sprinkler.
The adult is sitting facing the right, the chick is facing left looking at the sprinkler, leaf litter on the ground, matching their grey colouring, green foliage in the background.

A bush stone-curlew introducing chicks to the wet banana patch worm zone, shielding them closely as out in the open they are vulnerable.
Two chicks facing away in front of the adult in its shade, the adult is flat footed on the brown grass.

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John Cook 🇦🇺🧑🏼‍🦽‍➡️🚲 @harryheadbanger.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I do like this young kookaburra from last month, it was on the grass moving about then, sat and posed for me. Anderson Gardens Townsville #Birds #BirdOfTheDay #BestOfTheMonth

A young laughing kookaburra, looking right on a green branch, green and brown leaves and a grey tree trunk in the background, late afternoon light.

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John Cook 🇦🇺🧑🏼‍🦽‍➡️🚲 @harryheadbanger.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

It’s always windy when I spot these spiders, an orb weaver, jewel or spiny backed? Sometimes called a Christmas spider. Anderson Park Townsville #Spiders #Arachnids #Australianspiders #Entemology #WildOz

A tiny spider, this is the back, or top like a crab shell, there are four horns, pointy bits, there is a dark stripe up the middle covering the inner two horns, the rest is white with orange patches, I think it’s pointing down and to the left.
The wing hasn’t done the web construction any favours.

The underside of the spider, light and darker brown coloured,
There are legs at the lower end of the spider, I’m not sure about any other anatomical bits.
Green out of focus background.

Looking at the spiders underside the outer edges of the web are still intact, it’s quite strong in the heavy wind.

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John Cook 🇦🇺🧑🏼‍🦽‍➡️🚲 @harryheadbanger.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

A male sahul sunbird, sitting on a wire on a back veranda. I love seeing these dancing around in the bushes and branches, someone heard one outside and said something needs oiling, it was its call. Townsville #Birds #BirdOfTheDay #Yellow

A male Sahul Sunbird from left and below, a small bird, facing to the right, it has an olive back, wings and tail. and grey legs, a pointy dark curved beak and a yellow body with a distinctive colourful blue patch on its neck and chest.

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John Cook 🇦🇺🧑🏼‍🦽‍➡️🚲 @harryheadbanger.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Royal spoonbills from some time ago, I was scrolling and liked it. In stereo, With Esther Williams, their choreographer masked lapwing in the middle. Townsville #Birds #WildOz

Two royal spoonbills sifting for food in unison, in a recently cleared wet gully, there is a masked lapwing in the middle bottom looking the camera, brown wings and cap, a yellow mask and a white body.
The spoonbills have black bills and legs with a white body, everything else is dirty grass and mud with a pool of water through the lower third of the frame.

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John Cook 🇦🇺🧑🏼‍🦽‍➡️🚲 @harryheadbanger.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Bush stone-curlews do weird stuff as they grow, I called this the teenage years, they have adult plumage mostly but lay around in awkward not camouflaged ways, ambulating normally otherwise fortunately it doest last long, adults look on with distain. It scared me initially Townsville #Birds #WildOz

Two young Bush Stone-curlews laying about like they have died, they haven’t, it’s an odd phase, not all seem to do it.
There is brown dappled mulch on the ground, a dianella Lilly to the left grass and foliage in the background.
The birds have variations of grey stripes and patterns with a cream underside.
Left is the juvenile birds belly facing the camera on its right side, on the right the bird is on its left side with its head on its sibling

A young Bush Stone-curlew on its left side with its tail facing the camera, an adult stands on the right with a look of distain, sort of their default setting, green patchy grass and foliage in the back ground

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John Cook 🇦🇺🧑🏼‍🦽‍➡️🚲 @harryheadbanger.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

A late afternoon scene at the creek, white Ibis are in the foreground and left , a Royal spoonbill in the centre and pacific black ducks to the right rear. There are variations of shade, reflection and light. Townsville. #Birds #BirdOfTheDay #ReflectionsAndShadows #wildOz

Ibis, foreground and to the centre left, a Royal spoonbill centre and pacific black ducks are right rear in a late afternoon scene, grassy banks and reeds in a small creek

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

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John Cook 🇦🇺🧑🏼‍🦽‍➡️🚲 @harryheadbanger.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

An Australian white ibis walking away and to the right, the background is drying grass and I thought an interesting shadow in front, late afternoon sun light. It took this with my phone a couple of days ago, as it appeared in front of me. Townsville #Birds #Simple #BirdOfTheDay

A white Ibis on dried out grass with the sun behind it casting a shadow in front of it.
Facing away and to the right, a medium sized white bird with fine black feathers on its rear above its tail, it has a black featherless head, neck and long curved downwards beak.
There are pink patches on the back of the neck and stringy white feathers on its chest.

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John Cook 🇦🇺🧑🏼‍🦽‍➡️🚲 @harryheadbanger.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

An eastern great egret, slowly walking in a gully that has water and grass, occasionally tidal, a great food source. Townsville #Birds #BirdOfTheDay #Herons&Egrets #WildOz

An Eastern Great Egret facing to the left with dark lower legs obscured by grass and water.
It is white with a yellow bill and yellow eyes.
Its neck is very long with a kink halfway up.
The foreground is green grass, the background brown clay with areas of brownish grass.

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John Cook 🇦🇺🧑🏼‍🦽‍➡️🚲 @harryheadbanger.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

A juvenile black faced cuckoo shrike in the afternoon sun, their flight is interesting, undulating, a couple of flaps then wings in and coast and repeat, neither a true cuckoo or shrike. Townsville #Birds #BirdOfTheDay #50ShadesOfGrey #WildOz

A black faced Cuckoo shrike, looking to the left on the outer branch of a Tabebuia, fairly common introduced street trees in Townsville
It has pale grey upper parts, white underparts, and a small dark mask, the adult birds have extensive black face and throat.

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John Cook 🇦🇺🧑🏼‍🦽‍➡️🚲 @harryheadbanger.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

A lovely green tree frog, my mother’s totem. On a hand rail for the stairs, under the back light, a great feeding spot. Townsville #amphibian #Frogs

A green tree frog who hung out under the light for the back steps, it was always very .
calm and peaceful.
It’s on green wooden handrail, looking at and facing the camera, light green skin on the back and face, white underneath, dark eyes.
I will be back where this one lives later in the year.

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america.is.not.free @antifapatriot.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

older cartoon, sadly still relevant today 😒 #krasnov

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John Cook 🇦🇺🧑🏼‍🦽‍➡️🚲 @harryheadbanger.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I do have a LBB picture, sitting on the branch of a Melicope elleryana, (my favourite tree)it is a brown honey eater. Townsville. #Birds #BirdOfTheDay #LittleBrownBird

A small brown bird sitting on a branch, facing to the right, it has a slightly yellow brown head with a dark eye and delicate downward facing beak with a yellow stripe behind its bill , its body is creamy brown with a darker brown back and wings, there is a dark yellowish brown feathers on the wings and tiny grey legs.
The background is out of focus foliage.

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John Cook 🇦🇺🧑🏼‍🦽‍➡️🚲 @harryheadbanger.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

This magpie goose was busy bottom up feeding when I arrived yesterday, as soon as it came up it looked directly at me, I had not disturbed any other creatures arriving, I can only walk very slowly so surprise? Anderson Gardens, Townsville #Busted #Birds #BirdIfTheDay

The magpie goose Center of screen had been feeding bottom up, so it’s not fully up to floating position, its body Is facing left but is looking directly at the camera, there is another behind facing the right, it has a red beak mask?
Blackhead and neck, white body with black and white wings.
The greenish water has many Lilly pads and there is a grassy bank at the rear with a concrete wall below.

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John Cook 🇦🇺🧑🏼‍🦽‍➡️🚲 @harryheadbanger.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Two Bush-stone curlews surrounded by small banana plants, a moist spot full of worms and insects, the picture was taken through the kitchen louvers where I used to watch them a lot, and they watched me. They have great legs. #Birds #BirdoftheDay #LongLegs #WildOz

Two bush stone -curlews, in front one facing the right, behind is one facing away at a banana trunk, dry brown grass with a few green weeds, shade patches from the small banana leaves.
The birds has a big yellow eye and black beak, a grey stripe from the top of the head and down between the wings, a white stripe above the eye and brownish grey below, a white neck and body with darker flecks of feathers, wings are shades of grey with black stripes.

Long tan legs.

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John Cook 🇦🇺🧑🏼‍🦽‍➡️🚲 @harryheadbanger.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

A Brown Honey eater on a Grevillea dryandri (Dryandri) Outside Kokoda pool Townsville #Birds #BirdOfTheDay #RedOrDead #WildOz

A Brown Honeyeater sitting on a Grevillea dryandri (Dryandri) just near the entrance to the pool near Anderson Gardens, a bit of blur on the light grey head and nape, black eye and beak with a cream body, the wings are brown with yellow highlights.
Long green to red grevillea flowers on stalks around the bird will grevillea leaves below, there is a light yellow block wall behind.
Townsville

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John Cook 🇦🇺🧑🏼‍🦽‍➡️🚲 @harryheadbanger.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

The magpie visits daily, it might be looking to the sky, it likes leaping off the fly screen on the toilet window, and hunting insects around the clothesline but keeps an eye out for competition. Its nemesis is a white Ibis. Townsville #Birds #BirdOfTheDay #OverTheRainbow

An adult magpie facing to the right and looking up, it has a white beak with a black tip, red eyes and a black body with a white nape white and black wings and grey legs.
Standing on a concrete and paver path, a white pole to the right with green garlic chives and basil behind it.
Green grass in the background and a concrete wall.

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John Cook 🇦🇺🧑🏼‍🦽‍➡️🚲 @harryheadbanger.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

The second of August (2/8) Chosen for the 2,800+ Romani women and children murdered in one night at Auschwitz. To honor and remember all Roma and Sinti who perished at the hands of the Nazis. Samudaripen

Part of a Roma flag to the left, green lower, blue too with a red wagon wheel 16 spokes, a candle to the right and a dark background with light speckes

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John Cook 🇦🇺🧑🏼‍🦽‍➡️🚲 @harryheadbanger.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

A couple of Cattle egrets in the gully, in breeding plumage, the rain was heavy. One of my through the louvre captures. And quite a long shot. #Birds #BirdOfTheDay #EgretsAndHerons #WildOz

Two cattle Egrets facing to the left, only one head visible, the head and neck have a light brown colour with a darker stripe on the top of the head with lighter stripes beside it, the chest had darker stripes, the beak is a similar colour and the rest of the bird is white.
They are standing in green grass and water, in heavy rain.

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John Cook 🇦🇺🧑🏼‍🦽‍➡️🚲 @harryheadbanger.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

The blue faced honey eaters followed me around the yard, often just watching and making a call that sounded like “why” Wild birds, with plenty of native plants to keep them happy. This picture sums up their nature, cheeky and inquisitive. #Birds #Birdoftheday #YourChoice #Photography #wildOz

An inquisitive blue faced honey eater on a grey metal fence pole, there is a wooden pole behind it to the left of centre, a dianella lily to the lower right and an Pararistolochia praevenosa vine also on the right, the background is green with a bit of white at the top right from a mail box.
The bird is looking down and to the left, white eye surrounded by a large light blue patch, the cap is black with a grey chest and white body and neck.
The wings and tail are olive green.

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John Cook 🇦🇺🧑🏼‍🦽‍➡️🚲 @harryheadbanger.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Two pacific black ducks in the gully standing in water surrounded by reeds. Townsville #Birds #BirdOfTheDay #EmeraldBackdrop #WildOz #Ducks

Two pacific black ducks, standing in water, not quite floating, looking to the centre, green reedy grass in the foreground and background

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John Cook 🇦🇺🧑🏼‍🦽‍➡️🚲 @harryheadbanger.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Last week in Anderson Gardens, I am obliged to photograph every Bush Stone-curlew I see. These two were cautiously following others into a shrubbery. Anderson Gardens, Townsville. #Birds #BirdOfTheDay #Grey #WildOz #Townsville

Two bush stone-Curlews in the morning light, carefully making their way to catch up with the rest of the family.
One bird in the middle one on the left, both looking to the right, they have yellow eyes and a black beaks with a stripe running back from its beak and eye to their grey back, the face and neck are white, the body is speckled cream with grey brown patches, the wings are darker with a lighter bar.
It has light grey legs.
Tree and leaf litter in the foreground with a tree trunk on the left with the second bird emerging from behind it.
There is green grass behind with two tree trunks and shadows on the grass.p

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John Cook 🇦🇺🧑🏼‍🦽‍➡️🚲 @harryheadbanger.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Anderson Park, always something to look at, the Kapok tree, Bombax ceiba is in full bloom now, absolutely full of birds, you can hear the tree before you see it sometimes, just over the roadway in front of the conservatory. Native to Australia and Asia. Townsville. #blooms #WildOz #Townsville

A kapok flower, these are quite big and feel leathery, the red really pops with the yellow interior.

A vey vocal Friar bird up in the branches of the Kapok tree surrounded by flowers.

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John Cook 🇦🇺🧑🏼‍🦽‍➡️🚲 @harryheadbanger.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

The bush stone-curlew family, three sitting, it was a nice spot, the nest was very close to there, and they left me enough room to get to the clothes line that time. Townsville #BirdOfTheDay #SittingDownOnTheJob #Townsville #WildOz

A family of four Bush stone-Curlews, two juveniles, and one adult on the right sitting.
The adult on the left its on its hypotarsus, heel.
Green grass and shade

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John Cook 🇦🇺🧑🏼‍🦽‍➡️🚲 @harryheadbanger.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Sunrise on the pond, Juvenile Pacific black ducks in a lotus pond, Anderson Gardens, Townsville. #Birds #Townsville #WildOz

Four juvenile pacific black ducks in a lotus pond in the early morning, three facing left, the duck in the background facing forward, surrounded by Lilly pads and old flower stalks.
They have a distinctive black cap, black eye stripe and light coloured face and neck, the beak is blue grey.

Two pacific black ducks facing each other on a pond in the morning light, Lilly pads and old lotus stalks.

A pacific black duck facing to the right in morning light, an old lotus stem and flower stalk in the foreground in focus, surrounded by Lilly pads, one showing its orange underside.

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John Cook 🇦🇺🧑🏼‍🦽‍➡️🚲 @harryheadbanger.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Anderson gardens, yesterday, There were multiple Tent-web spider webs, one communal one was 5 meters long, 3 meters wide and two metres high. And there were many offspring. They are Impressive creatures, Townsville #Townsville #spiders #wildOz #Arachnids

A Tent-web spider sitting below its egg sac facing down and slightly to the right, four legs pointing forward and four legs at the rear, the legs are black with a couple of white bands, the rear legs are also banded but the first segment of the rear leg is orange, it has a black back with even white patches.
The egg sac is a mouldy green colour and the web is a disordered looking thick mat of strands and debris, there is a green leaf in the background.

Another Tent-web spider below and in front of the mouldy green egg sack, pointing down seen through the mat of webbing, the same black abdomen with white spots and banded legs.

A mass of new Tent-web spiders, grey looking with banded legs and two light longitudinal stripes and a dark head, part of a large cluster below the adult spider.

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John Cook 🇦🇺🧑🏼‍🦽‍➡️🚲 @harryheadbanger.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

A Royal Spoonbill, in the gully after the backhoe has visited to reduce debris, this is a semi tidal part of a flood mitigation channel, so it is full of all sorts of great foods for spoonbills. Townsville #BirdIfTheDay #SwingersAndWingers I have gone for the Alt #RSVP #WildOz #Birds

A Royal Spoonbill standing in muddy water facing left looking down at the water and mud to prepare for the next series of sweeps of the mud for food.
It has a long neck, a large black beak that is straight, there are spoon shaped ends to the bill not evident in this picture.
The legs are black, the rest of the bird is white.
The foreground is marshy grass, muddy water under the bird and the background is a muddy bank with marshy grass mixed in.

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John Cook 🇦🇺🧑🏼‍🦽‍➡️🚲 @harryheadbanger.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

There were two birds in the setting sun this afternoon that I really liked, great light. A great bower bird that wanted to know what the magpies had, and the juvenile magpie on the clothes line keeping an eye on the bower bird. Both ignored the Ibis Townsville. #Birds #Photography #WildOz

A juvenile Australian Magpie. Facing to the right towards the setting sun, and the bower bird, it is standing at the top of a grey metal clothes line.
Background is a mango tree.
The bird has dark eyes, a grey blue beak with a dark tip, the top half of the head is black, lower down the feathers are a charcoal like colour with light colored edges to the feathers.
The nape is white, black wings with a white bar, the tail is dark and the rump white.

A great Bower bird sitting on the edge of a white pot, facing side on towards the right, it has a tan coloured body, dark eyes and a darker slightly curved bill, the wings a barred darker brown and cream as is the tail.
An out of focus basil plant in the foreground, a Dianella , flax Lilly to the right and a concrete block wall in the background

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John Cook 🇦🇺🧑🏼‍🦽‍➡️🚲 @harryheadbanger.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

This afternoon was productive, the birds came to me while I was resting and recovering, they were all just near my door where I was sitting. A White Ibis. #BirdOfTheDay Alt #ButtShott Townsville.

An Australian white Ibis walking away and looking to the right, it has dark eyes, a featherless black head with grey pink markings on the back of its head and a long downward curving beak, the body is white, the primary feathers have black tips covering the rump.
The bird also has light straw like feathers pointing down from its lower neck.
Green patchy grass and a concrete block wall behind

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John Cook 🇦🇺🧑🏼‍🦽‍➡️🚲 @harryheadbanger.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I was out having a forced break this afternoon, the setting sun was very nice, I was meditating with the magpies and bower birds. Only one was calling and begging for food. #BirdofTheDay #OpenBeaks #WildOz Townsville.

A young magpie asking for food and being ignored by the adult bird.
Both looking to the right, the adult bird is in great condition, the black tipped blue grey beak, grey legs, black body and wings with white wing bars and a bright white nape.
The adolescent on the left has a dark grey chest, grey beak And legs.

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John Cook 🇦🇺🧑🏼‍🦽‍➡️🚲 @harryheadbanger.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

A Bush Stone-Curlew saying go away, you are too close to the eggs or chicks, if you remain it will advance continuing its hissing guttural sound, lower its head, and if you linger or come closer it may jump and hit you with its wings. #BirdOfTheDay #WildMotion #Birds #WildOz

A bush sone-curlew wth its wings stretched out to the sides, this is a warning to back off, accompanied with a growling hissing noise.
The bird is standing erect on long thin grey legs looking at the camera.
The wings are pale grey with a band of darker grey, then white trimmed with black.
The chest and lower neck is cream coloured with brown streaks.
The neck is light grey, the face is white with yellow eyes and a grey cap.
Brown small sticks on the ground, from a mango tree above, a grey fence in the background.

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John Cook 🇦🇺🧑🏼‍🦽‍➡️🚲 @harryheadbanger.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Plumed whistling ducks hiding under the mango tree, this is where they come if a predator is about, they congregate in fairly large groups normally. If you are not sure of where the wetland is you can hear them to guide you. Townsville #Birds #Quackers #BirdOfTheDay #WildOz #Photography #Townsville

Plumed whistling ducks one facing right, two facing left, their neck and body is tan with tan eyes and delicate duck bills.
The wings are much darker larger with cream coloured feathers laid over the top.
The foreground is dry mango leaves, the background is green, a paw paw plant and out of focus green grass behind that.
There is a buttress of a mango tree mid left

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John Cook 🇦🇺🧑🏼‍🦽‍➡️🚲 @harryheadbanger.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

The peaceful dove (Geopelia placida) They normally feed on the ground, this one was sitting, perhaps there was a predator close, the smallest of the pigeons in Australia, lovely sounds and constantly mating. Townsville. #SmallBirdSaturday #Townsville #Photography #WildOz

A small dove, sitting in leaf litter facing to the right, it has a grey head a light blue eye ring and nasal cere, black eyes and a neck and chest of light grey and dark striped.
The wings are brown with dark feather tips and it has a thin tail, displayed like a fan when attempting to mate along with a brrrr brrr sound.

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John Cook 🇦🇺🧑🏼‍🦽‍➡️🚲 @harryheadbanger.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

The lotus patch in a local pond, a meditation area, and full of wildlife and a ficus religiosa, Bohdi tree at my back. Anderson gardens Townsville. #FlowersOfBluesky #Garden #Photography #Townsville

One red lotus flower in the Center seed heads left and right surrounded by large green leaves in morning light.

The afternoon sun shows a mature lotus flower, it looks pink with a yellow conical seed head emerging with yellow staimens at it base.
Large green leaves and tan stems in the background.

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