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Cat Davidson

@wanderingwildcat.bsky.social
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Ecology and Bird guide, living on lunawanna-alonnah / Bruny island with the cheeky wee Pardalotes and Pademelons.

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Cat Davidson @wanderingwildcat.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
My talk on Eggs at the University of the 3rd Age (U3A) today had some fabulous audience questions that led to an enjoyable evening researching further and dancing on the edges of what science currently understands. Q: What does it feel like to lay an egg? #Birds #Eggs #BirdGuide #BirdLecture
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Cat Davidson @wanderingwildcat.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
A pleasure to attend a WELA Leadership Intensive with an incredible group of inspiring women working in environmental fields all over Tasmania. Fresh mindsets around what leadership can be and how I can show up with renewed strength, kindness and effectiveness for the environment and community.
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Cat Davidson @wanderingwildcat.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
At the Bruny Island Bird Festival I lectured on 'The beauty and wonder of eggs'. I had such a ball deepening my own knowledge to present such a fascinating topic. #birds #eggs #brunyisland #birdfestival
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Cat Davidson @wanderingwildcat.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
An incredible weekend of sunshine and bird nerdery at The Bruny Island Bird Festival. I tumbled from running bird tours, to giving lectures, hosting events and running stalls. A fabulous, exhausting time. #birds #brunyisland #birdfestival
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Cat Davidson @wanderingwildcat.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Some days the weather is perfect .... you find just the right bridge, at just the right time .... and Platypus magic happens. #TourGuide #Tasmania #Platypus #NotABird
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Cat Davidson @wanderingwildcat.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
We found this adorable family of Tawny Frogmouths high above us on a branch. The parents continued to snooze and act like perfect mottled tree trunks, while the fluffy chicks boggled at us with their big yellow eyes. #Birds #BirdGuide #TawnyFrogmouth
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Cat Davidson @wanderingwildcat.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Tiny, ginger fluffball with a red-bald cap - the ever adorable Eurasian Coot chick!! #Bird #BirdGuide #EurasianCoot
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Cat Davidson @wanderingwildcat.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
In the South-West of West Australia there are some tough to find local birds known as 'The Big Three' - tricky due to their cryptic colours and skulking nature. This was a fabulous view we had of the Western Bristlebird, sound on for its very lovely sweet song #Birds #BirdGuide #WesternBristlebird
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Cat Davidson @wanderingwildcat.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
A stunning Australian Hobby ripping up its lunch while perched over a creekline in the Northern Territory. The Hobby is in the Falcon family and hunts diurnally and crepuscularly on mainly birds, bats and insects. Sound on for a bit of drama. #Birds #BirdGuide #EcologyGuide #Hobby
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Cat Davidson @wanderingwildcat.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
This teeny tiny Little Kingfisher (Ceyx pusillus) measures a minute 12cm high and just over 10g We spotted one on South Alligator River and would have danced a jig of joy, would it not have upset the boat and tipped us in with the Salt Water Crocodiles.. #LittleKingfisher #BirdGuide #Birds
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Cat Davidson @wanderingwildcat.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Well this very nice thing just happened where I won Australian Tour Guide of The Year, I am chuffed to bits. Who knows where this may lead, but I am excited to find out 😀 #BirdGuide #EcologyGuide #TourGuideOfTheYear
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Cat Davidson @wanderingwildcat.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Glorious Spinifex Pigeons engaging in a courtship ritual involving a "kiss" where the male presents his open beak for the female to insert hers. Watch to see the male regurgitating into the female's beak, a pair bonding behavior used later for feeding young. #BirdGuide #Birds
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Cat Davidson @wanderingwildcat.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
The impressive, & slightly aggressive pre-mating dance of the Western Bowerbird beside his incredible bower packed with special white and green treasures - she seemed pretty impressed with his rizz. Do admire his pink erectile-crest blossom of neck feathers! #BirdGuide #WesternBowerbird
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Cat Davidson @wanderingwildcat.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Bronzewings are beautiful Australian Pigeons with a rainbow shimmering within their wings. They fill the spring and summer soundscape with their lovely relentless ooom ooom ooom ooom ........ #Birds #CommonBronzewing #Tasmania #BirdGuide
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Cat Davidson @wanderingwildcat.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Tickled pink to win the 'Tasmanian Tour Guide of the Year' Award. Thrilled that guests seem to like my science sass. I took some chilly photos in the glowing blue bridge lights in Launceston to celebrate. #Tasmania #EcologyGuide #BirdGuide
Smiley me on a blue bridge with my award
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Cat Davidson @wanderingwildcat.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
The sweetest wee Velvet-furred Rat native to Australia, living its best life in a Baurera bush. #Tasmania #EcologyGuide
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Cat Davidson @wanderingwildcat.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
The male Scarlet Robin brings a glorious splash of red as he arrives with a flutter and a merry trill to see if we have disturbed any tasty insects. #birds #birdguide #Tasmania #Petroica
The male Scarlet Robin brings a glorious splash of red as he arrives with a flutter and a merry trill to see if we have disturbed any tasty insects.
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Cat Davidson @wanderingwildcat.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
In the winter months I always miss the presence of these fluffballs - A Black Swan cygnet in southern Tasmania. #Birds #BlackSwan #Tasmania #BirdGuide
A Black Swan cygnet in southern Tasmania.
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Cat Davidson @wanderingwildcat.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
I'm doing a talk on the nightlife of Bruny Island, do come along if you happen to be nearby. An engaging presentation that will unveil the fascinating lives of the island’s nocturnal residents. 10th May - 6pm Adventure Bay Hall, South Bruny $10 per person www.eventbrite.com.au/e/after-dark...
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Cat Davidson @wanderingwildcat.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
A critically endangered Swift Parrot chick sheltering in the pouring rain under the luminous orange flowers of a Eucalyptus ficifolia. #birdguide #birds #Tasmania
A critically endangered Swift Parrot chick sheltering in the pouring rain under the luminous orange flowers of a Eucalyptus ficifolia
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Cat Davidson @wanderingwildcat.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
The cheerful and charming Beautiful Firetail with its rocket red bum and tiny cartoon robber facemask. Tasmania's only native finch, I beam with joy each time I discover one. #birds #birdguide #Tasmania
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Cat Davidson @wanderingwildcat.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
A perfectly pinstriped Striated Fieldwren singing its heart out on top of a sun-drenched Richea pandanifolia in Cradle Mountain National Park. #birds #birdguide #ecologyguide #tasmania
A perfectly pinstriped Striated Fieldwren singing its heart out on top of a sun-drenched Richea pandanifolia in Cradle Mountain National Park.
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Cat Davidson @wanderingwildcat.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Camouflaged, beautiful, fierce - a fabulous Brown Falcon in the central highlands of Tasmania. #birds #birdguide #Tasmania
Camouflaged, beautiful, fierce - a fabulous Brown Falcon in the central highlands of Tasmania.
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Cat Davidson @wanderingwildcat.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
A beautiful male Pink Robin, a pop of powder-puff pink in amongst the shady temperate rainforest on Bruny Island. #birds #birdguide #tasmania #brunyisland
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Cat Davidson @wanderingwildcat.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
A flock of Hoary-headed Grebes passing by in the beautiful liminal light just before sunset on Bruny Island Tasmania. #BirdGuide #birds #Tasmania #BrunyIsland
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Cat Davidson @wanderingwildcat.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
A beautiful mother and joey Tasmanian (Red-bellied) Pademelon in the dappled shade of the Eucalyptus trees on Maria Island. At this time of year, most joeys are fully weaned, but still spending time feeding near their mums. #ecologyguide #tasmania #macropods
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Cat Davidson @wanderingwildcat.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
A recent tough, yet fascinating view of the final minutes for a White-lipped Snake as it was killed and eaten by a Kookaburra. #birdguide #birds #tasmania
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Cat Davidson @wanderingwildcat.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
A tiny endemic Tasmanian Thornbill with its wee white underpants, copper highlights and faint chest striations bopping about in a Richea scoparia in the alpine lake in Tasmania. #birds #birdguide #tasmania
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Cat Davidson @wanderingwildcat.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
An elegant Great Egret and a poised Great Cormorant sharing the same sculptural dead tree at a Hobart lagoon. #birdguide #birds #tasmania
A Great Egret with its wings extended out and a Great Cormorant with a curious expression, sharing the same sculptural dead tree.
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Cat Davidson @wanderingwildcat.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
A beautiful healthy Tiger Snake glistening in the sunshine at Cradle Mountain. #birdguide #ecologyguide #tigersnake #tasmania
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Cat Davidson @wanderingwildcat.bsky.social · 03/03/2024
The irresistible charms of the Superb Fairy-wren. #Birds #BirdGuide #Tasmania
Superb Fairy-wren
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Cat Davidson @wanderingwildcat.bsky.social · 29/02/2024
The magnificently intimidating and intelligent stare of a Black Currawong, one of Tasmania's wonderful endemic birds. #Birds #BirdGuide #Tasmania
Black Currawong
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Cat Davidson @wanderingwildcat.bsky.social · 26/02/2024
Allow the sweetness of a Bennett's Wallaby joey to work its calming magic on you. Just look at that wee fluffy tummy. #NatureGuide #Wallaby #Tasmania
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Cat Davidson @wanderingwildcat.bsky.social · 25/02/2024
This stunning Tasmanian Wedge-tailed Eagle spent the morning perched 20m from our home, watching us go about our work. I couldn't have be more thrilled to be spied upon. 🤩 #Birds #BirdGuide #Tasmania #Eagle
Tasmanian Wedge-tailed Eagle
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Cat Davidson @wanderingwildcat.bsky.social · 24/02/2024
A gorgeous Southern Brown Bandicoot lurking under a Casuarina Tree and glowing in the sun. #NatureGuide #Tasmania #Bandicoot
Southern Brown Bandicoot
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Cat Davidson @wanderingwildcat.bsky.social · 23/02/2024
Beautiful Blue-winged Parrots chilling on a fence line on Bruny Island after feasting on seeds. #Birds #BirdGuide #Tasmania
Blue-winged Parrots
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Cat Davidson @wanderingwildcat.bsky.social · 22/02/2024
Currently guiding a fantastic bird tour of Tasmania with some lovely highlights like this beautiful wee Australian Spotted Crake. #Bird #Birdguide #Tasmania
Australian Spotted Crake
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