Bird of the Week Challenge: 7th October - Feeding

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Holly
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Bird of the Week Challenge: 7th October - Feeding

Hi all

Apologies for the delay in this week's challenge! Lets get it up and running. Straight forward one this week - lets see birds who are hungry! Share your feeding pics. 

 

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Reflex
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Windshear will know where this was taken.

Samford Valley Qld.

Devster
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This Blue-Faced Honeyeater still has the evidence on his face of what he's been eating.

pacman
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Weebill with ant

Peter

Reflex
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A Scarlet Honeyeater deciding whether or not I'm starting to get too close or to continue feeding on the Callistemon.

Samford Valley Qld.

Araminta
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Immature Silver Gull eating some left over fish.

M-L

pacman
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Pacific Gull with fish meal

Peter

MrBean
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White Fronted Chat with Dragonflies (three of them).

Reflex
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MrBean wrote:

White Fronted Chat with Dragonflies (three of them).

 I still don't understand how birds collect multiple live insects in their beak?

Samford Valley Qld.

Reflex
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Breakfast is an important meal..

Samford Valley Qld.

youcantryreachingme
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Reflex wrote:

Breakfast is an important meal..

That silvereye is banded on both legs. Wonder who's studying them? If you could find out, there might be enough info in the pic - left leg in particular - to ID the individual bird.

youcantryreachingme
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Nankeen kestrel

Reflex
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Eye contact is so important...

Samford Valley Qld.

youcantryreachingme
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Powerful owl

Reflex
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I would prefer a bacon sandwich but a plastic red-bellied black snake keeps the tourists happy! 

It was so realistic at the time I was all over this like a rash!

Samford Valley Qld.

Devster
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Brown Quail feeding on grass seed

pacman
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Cape Petrel about to feed on the burley

Peter

Reflex
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Little Wattlebird enjoying a good feed.

Samford Valley Qld.

Devster
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Female Fig Bird eating fruit off a Palm Tree

pacman
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Bar-tailed Godwit with a morsel in its beak

Peter

Reflex
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A Pied Currawong enjoying some apple.

Samford Valley Qld.

pacman
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Varied Lorikeet feeding

Peter

Reflex
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Noisy Friarbird or sometimes called Leatherhead.

Samford Valley Qld.

Ross42
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Pelicans fighting over a Flathead carcase

rawshorty
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Yellow-plumed Honeyeater eating some nectar.

Shorty......Canon gear

Canberra

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Annie W
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After watching this little family for a while recently, I came to the conclusion that it was just as much about flight school as feeding - each parent would feed first one baby then the other, yet it appeared almost just as much food remained in the parents beak after.  They'd then fly a short distance making both little ones zip from tree to tree to catch them, and the remaining food.  

 

West Coast Tasmania

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">http://s1289.photobucket.com/user/kerrystevens2014/media/Pelicans/burrum...

Saw this pelican at Burrum Heads , a fisherman had finished fishing for the day and gave the Pelican his bait fish, was great watching it scoop up the fish

kerry

Reflex
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A Lewin's Honeyeater.

Samford Valley Qld.

rawshorty
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A Wedgie dining on some Skippy.

Shorty......Canon gear

Canberra

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james113
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A Black-shouldered Kite swallowing a mouse whole!

annas
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An Eastern Osprey making a meal of a flathead (he forgot the chips!)

Annie W
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A fledgling Fantail Cuckoo being fed by host parent, a Tasmanian Thornbill.  Which brings me to the question.... as it's usually the smaller Cuckoos (Shining & Horsfield's Bronze-Cuckoos for Tassie) that parasitise the smaller birds nests (ie Superb Fairy-wrens, Thornbills), how did a big Fantail Cuckoo get an egg inside a tiny Thornbill dome nest??  With a very good aim might be one answer cheeky.

West Coast Tasmania

Reflex
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A nice crunchy beetle for Sunday morning breakfast.

Samford Valley Qld.

Annie W
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From cruncy bug to juicy grub, this female Superb Fairy-wren made sure her meal was tenderised well before enjoying a chow down.

West Coast Tasmania

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