When I pulled up at the public toilets at Capertee this week I was surprised to find this lovely new mural. It turns out to be an education piece on the critically endangered Regent Honeyeater. The Capertee Valley is one of their key breeding areas. Inside the toilets there was information on the conservation program and speakers tweeting their bird call (and the sound of running water too which I guess didn't matter since we were already in the toilet).
I have not spotted one of these beautiful birds but I do see many different birds in my garden. My most exciting observation of recent times was a flock of double-barred finches.
From your blog posts I know many of you observe birds. What has been your most exciting sighting recently?
What a lovely mural! We have heaps of birds here. The storm bird always amuses me. Nanna Chel
ReplyDeleteI had to look up what a storm bird was. It turns out to be a Koel which many people complain about being too noisy. We don't hear them that often.
DeleteThat’s an impressive mural! Thank you for visiting my blog, very much enjoying yours :)
ReplyDeleteIt is a very neat and tidy mural, not all murals are as approachable.
DeleteI was travelling that way before Christmas and stopped there. The workers were just installing the mural. Love to have a bit of bird song even in the most unexpected places.
ReplyDeleteSo that is when the mural went up. We don't call in there very often. The last time we were there the toilets were making squeaking noises (not birdsong) and I wondered what on earth it was about.
DeleteI love photographing birds and have put many photos on instagram. When I lived in the Blue Mountains I had many native birds visit my garden. However, now that I live in Penrith I do not see those beautiful birds as often. My most recent interesting sighting was a Great Egret at Nurragingy Reserve.
ReplyDeleteOh yes I know you love photographing birds and remember your Great Egret photo. There is certainly a big difference between the number of bird sightings in the mountains vs Penrith. Every garden is different, I am surprised that our home in Kandos (which is very close to bushland) has such a different range of birds to those at our bush block in Clandulla which is only 7 kms away.
DeleteNo stunning sightings recently. Always hear birds calling in the undergrowth but to actually sight them seems impossible.
ReplyDeleteLast week a particularly lovely toilet block was found with an equally beautiful mural and free library attached.
I have been hoping for years to identify birds by their calls. I am only successful with the larger birds. The little ones that go tweet-tweet in the undergrowth still stump me.
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