Very kind of the Queens Wharf Hotel to provide this little perch for welcome swallows.

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The surf might have been really rough but a bird's gotta eat. This black shag didn't seem to be at all bothered by it, and I saw it swallow at least one catch while I was there.

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Please excuse photographs from the back of a bus, but this is what the north-west corner of Lambton Road and Bridges Road, New Lambton NSW is like in Autumn: parrots. Lots of parrots.

There's a bunch of Afrocarpus trees there, and sulfur-crested cockatoos love munching on their cones. They also like ripping up the grass to get to the tasty bits below.

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Walking back from Bibina to a bus stop, we came across this lovely bunch of birds around a storm water channel. Right next to the very busy Hillsborough Road.

"Birds of a feather", etc.

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Lunch on the way home from Toowoomba at a lovely café at Highfields yesterday. Some of the locals were clearing up :)

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From Thursday's walk to get groceries: a swamp hen posing on an old railway track.

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Five Islands Bridge bird report for yesterday:

Northwards, from the bus:

• swans swimming in the bay on the lake
• 2 pelicans loafing on lampposts
• 1 pelican standing on a lamppost

Southwards, walking:

• 1 pelican standing on a lamppost, scratching
• 1 pelican loafing on a lamppost
• 1 white-bellied sea eagle circling

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