Imagine standing high up on a mountain’s edge surrounded by giant old Bunya Pine trees. The wind gently bending the grass at your feet as you stare out into unending distant dream. No voices or traffic sounds, no vibrating phones. From far away you see something large and black cutting through the vast blue without… Continue reading
“Maisy” Black-striped Wallaby In the care of Judith and Brendon Gray Jarowair, Queensland, Australia Check their blogs Beyond Our Patch and Jarowair Our Patch August 10, 2016 This spectacular little joey is a Black-striped Wallaby. Sadly, her mum was killed on the road, but she was rescued from her pouch and handed into care. If you ever… Continue reading
Wedge-tailed Eagle Lockyer Valley, Queensland, Australia December 28, 2015 Here are some wedgetail pics from the Lockyer Valley at the end of last year. I often seem to get good wedgtail encounters when birding with Rod Hobson. The photos were with my D800 and are only lightly cropped then massively reduced for web. I like… Continue reading
Wedge-tailed Eagle and Australian Magpie I think near Goombungee, Queensland, Australia August 31, 2014 Well, dare I say; today is my 50th, so to celebrate here is one of my most favouritest subjects. These pics were taken on a drive with Rod Hobson back on August 31. They were taken at 7am and my iso… Continue reading
Wedge-tailed Eagle Preston Peak Wines, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia January 8, 2014 We enjoyed coffee and cake at Preston Peak Wines on the last day of my last visit to Australia and this was the flight show just outside the window of the cafe. Sad to hear the cafe is now closed. It was a nice… Continue reading
Gabrielle Wedge-tailed Eagle Healesville Sanctuary, Victoria, Australia 1992 April, 29 2014 Russell wrote: This Wedge-tailed Eagle was the star of the “flight show” at Healesville Sanctuary, in Victoria in 1992. I believe her name was Gabrielle. I recall she was just a couple of years old in this photo. She was found as a chick… Continue reading
View from Mount Mowbullan Bunya Mountains National Park, Queensland, Australia April 2, 2013 I remember getting out of the car and running around here when I was a kid…. (On a cold, windy August afternoon) I seem to visit the same spot every couple of years or so. Maybe this time, it was four years… Continue reading
A big, black ball plunges from the sun. Wedge-tailed Eagle in a stoop. (Middle Ridge, Toowoomba, August, 2011) I was trying to concentrate on photographing an Eastern Spinebill in a friend’s front yard in Middle Ridge, Toowoomba when I was rudely distracted by the serious panic calls of Galahs, Australian Magpies and Crows. Birds were flying… Continue reading
A retired Wedge-tailed Eagle’s nest. If only nests kept paper records. I wonder how many eaglets had become eagles in the nest pictured above? Can’t believe it’s already more than two weeks ago that Kay and Kevin took me to meet Lloyd and Lynne north of Toowoomba. Many thanks also to Lloyd and Lynne for… Continue reading
(Above and below) Superb Blue Wren (male) at USQ Gatton Campus on Monday. Unfortunatley photographed into the sun. (Below) Striped Honeyeater at Apex Lake, Gatton also on Monday. (Above) Male Variegated Wren. Tiddelac, Upper Lockyer Valley. (Sunday afternoon) (Above and below) Wedge-tailed Eagle, Tiddelac, (Sunday afternoon) Common Brushtail Possum (Tiddelac, Sunday night) Continue reading
Russell Jenkins Stoop Files 