Will the Empty Lake Dumbleyung in Western Australia Fill Up This Week? Big Flooding Rains Coming!
Dumbleyung Lake – Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumbleyung_Lake
256 km Perth (Serpentine) Radar Loop
http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDR702.loop.shtml#skip
Dumbleyung and Lake Dumbleyung is situated 250km South East of Perth and approx 39km’s East of Wagin
512 km composite Perth (Serpentine) Radar Loop
http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDR701.loop.shtml
Rainfall: Forecast Rainfall / western australia / great southern / wagin (My hometown Dumbleyung is 40km’s East of Wagin)
http://www.bom.gov.au/jsp/watl/rainfall/pme.jsp
Western Australia Warnings Summary
http://www.bom.gov.au/wa/warnings/
Great Southern District Forecast (katanning) (Dumbleyung is 54km’s North of Katanning)
http://www.bom.gov.au/wa/forecasts/great-southern.shtml
Documentaries on Donald Campbell MBE, His Bluebird Boat K7 on Lake Dumbleyung and Other Lakes etc
Lake Dumbleyung – The Great Southern – Western Australia
Dumbleyung Lake
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumbleyung_Lake
The Majestic Wedge Tail Eagle – Dumbleyung – The Great Southern – Western Australia
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3DR Drone – Beautiful Lakes of Dumbleyung – Western Australia – Summer Lighting Thunderstorm
I have some really beautiful drone footage of Lake Dumbleyung in Western Australia coming soon..stay tuned! See Just the drone footage, plus extra drone footage of beautiful ancient ice age era lakes here and also Lake Dumbleyung preview here
Bird Watching Roadtrip Ends in Stunning Thunderstorm Chase – Drone Footage – Beautiful Pink Lake
Documentaries on Donald Campbell MBE, His Bluebird Boat K7 on Lake Dumbleyung and Other Lakes etc
Lake Dumbleyung – The Great Southern – Western Australia
Dumbleyung Lake
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Bronze Wing Pigeon Protecting Its Nest from Marauding Pied Butcher Birds
Common Bronzewing
Phaps chalcoptera
Columbidae
The Common Bronzewing is most often seen while it is feeding as it walks along bush tracks or quiet country roads, pecking at fallen seeds on the ground. Although seeds from wattle trees are its favoured fare, bronzewings will also eat the seeds of many other trees and shrubs. When they are flushed from the ground, their wings make a loud clattering or clapping sound as they take off, and their flight is strong, swift and direct, before they land in a tree nearby.
Identification
Description
Common Bronzewings are medium-sized, heavily built pigeons. The male has a yellow-white forehead and pink breast. Both sexes have a clear white line below and around the eye and patches of green, blue and red in the wing, characteristic of all bronzewings. The Common Bronzewing is a cautious pigeon, and rarely allows close approach. If startled, it flies away with a clatter, keeping low to the ground while moving in a steady, direct manner. Young Common Bronzewings are duller and browner than the adults. The metallic wing patch is absent or not easily seen.
Similar Species
Common Bronzewings can be distinguished from the similar Brush Bronzewing, P. elegans, by their pinkish-grey breast, light brown nape and back, and pale throat (rather than grey breast and chestnut nape, back and throat).
Location
Distribution
Common Bronzewings are one of the most plentiful and commonly seen pigeons in Australia.
Habitat
Common Bronzewings are found in almost every habitat type, with the exception of the most barren areas and densest rainforests. Common Bronzewings are normally seen alone, in pairs or in small flocks, and are rarely found far from water.
Behaviour
Feeding
The Common Bronzewing feeds on seeds and other vegetable matter. The birds feed on the ground and in small parties. These small groups need to drink frequently, and visit waterholes during either the day or night.
Breeding
Common Bronzewings build an untidy nest of sticks and twigs. It is normally placed low down in a tree or bush, but may be up to 20 m above the ground. The creamy-white eggs are incubated by both parents. Both adults also share the care of the young birds, which are born naked and helpless and are completely dependent on their parents. Bronzewings, like other pigeons, secrete a special milk-like substance from their crop, which is fed to the young chicks.
Bird Watching Roadtrip Ends in Stunning Thunderstorm Chase – Lake Dumbleyung – Beautiful Pink Lake
I have some really beautiful drone footage of Lake Dumbleyung in Western Australia coming soon..stay tuned! See Just the drone footage, plus extra drone footage of beautiful ancient ice age era lakes here and also Lake Dumbleyung preview here
Bird Watching Roadtrip Ends in Stunning Thunderstorm Chase – Drone Footage – Beautiful Pink Lake
Documentaries on Donald Campbell MBE, His Bluebird Boat K7 on Lake Dumbleyung and Other Lakes etc
Lake Dumbleyung – The Great Southern – Western Australia
Dumbleyung Lake
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumbleyung_Lake
Black-faced Woodswallow – Artamus cinereus Artamidae – Great Southern – Western Australia
These birds are so beautiful, playful and cute! The Black-Faced Woodswallow with Babies ….. sorry about the wind noise!
The Black-faced Woodswallow often associates with other species of woodswallows as well as White-winged and Varied Trillers, but it is their association with Hooded Parrots in the Northern Territory that is especially intriguing. Hooded Parrots almost always forage in the company of Black-faced Woodswallows. The woodswallows are used by the parrots as sentinels to warn of the approach of potential predators, such as Brown, Grey or Red Goshawks, and whenever the woodswallows give their alarm calls, the parrots fly away to safety.
Description
The Black-faced Woodswallow is a smokey grey-brown above with a black face around the base of the bill and the eyes. The underparts are lighter grey with a black undertail in the race cinereus or a white undertail in the race albiventris of north-eastern Queensland. The black tail feathers are tipped white. The bluish bill is tipped black. Young birds are mainly brown, with extensive streaking, the underparts are washed buff-brown and they have a pale brown bill. May be seen in groups, often with other woodswallows, and roosts in tight clusters in trees during storms or sudden cold weather.
Similar Species
The Black-faced Woodswallow is similar to the Dusky Woodswallow, A. cyanopterus, and the Masked Woodswallow, A. personatus. It differs from the Dusky by being paler overall and lacks the white streak along the leading edge of the wing. The Masked Woodswallow has a larger and more defined face mask that extends down the throat to the upper breast, bordered by a white crescent. It also has paler underparts and a pale grey rather than black tail.
Distribution
The Black-faced Woodswallow is found across mainland Australia, mainly west of the Great Dividing Range in Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria, and is absent from the far south-western corner of Western Australia.
Habitat
The Black-faced Woodswallow is found in open country, often far from water, as well as in open woodlands, around lakes and wetlands and in irrigated areas.
Feeding
The Black-faced Woodswallow feeds on insects. It perches on shrubs, fences and telegraph wires, darting down to catch prey and will often hover. It will also eat nectar. Often feeds in mixed flocks with swifts and swiflets, and also associates with other woodswallows and the White-winged Triller.
Breeding
Black-faced Woodswallows nest and rear their young co-operatively, often mobbing potential predators. The nests are flimsy constructions of twigs placed low in a small tree, stump or artificial structure
Frog Rescue – The Banjo Frog and the Bleating Toadlet – Great Southern – Western Australia
UPDATE! IN QUITE A FEW OF MY PREVIOUS VIDEOS I REFERRED TO THE BLEATING TOADLET AS THE WESTERN TOADLET… WELL I WAS INCORRECT … A VERY SIMILAR SPECIES BUT THE WESTERN TOADLET IS MORE EAST AND INLAND FROM MY AREA IN THE GREAT SOUTHERN REGION OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA… MY APOLOGIES, IT IS ACTUALLY THE BLEATING TOADLET … SEE INFO HERE:
http://museum.wa.gov.au/explore/frogwatch/frogs/bleating-froglet
Frogs & Tadpoles of the Upper Great Southern Region – South East Western Australia
Western Toadlet | Western Australian Museum
http://museum.wa.gov.au/explore/frogwatch/frogs/western-toadlet
Frogs & Tadpoles of the Upper Great Southern Region – South East Western Australia
Giant Mutant Rare Western Spotted Frog Caught at Contaminated Toxic Rubbish Dump
Spotlighting the Very Rare Dumbleyungus Corruptus Shireus Western Spotted Frog
Dumbleyungus Corruptus Shireus ( Shire of Dumbleyung, Kukerin – Exposing its Workers, the Town Residents, the Children to Deadly Chemicals, Pesticides, Asbestos – Turning a Blind Eye! )
Frogs & Tadpoles of the Upper Great Southern Region – South East Western Australia
Western Australian Flora, Wild Flowers, Orchids, Tree and Plant Species – Great Southern Region
Insects, Butterfly’s & Moths of the Upper Great Southern Western Australia
Western Australian Creepy Crawlies
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Catching Some Native Bleating Toadlet Tadpoles in an Ancient Aboriginal Water Spring
Australian Wood Duck (Maned Duck) – Chenonetta jubata Anatidae – Great Southern – Western Australia
The Australian Wood Duck has adapted to modified environments remarkably well. You are just as Australian Wood Ducks loafing at the edge of a farm dam or ornamental pond as beside a swamp, or swimming on a reservoir as on a lake, or foraging on a golf course or in green pasture as in a water meadow or grassland. They even sometimes build their nests in chimneys instead of tree hollows. This level of adaptability has allowed the species to expand its range greatly since Europeans colonised Australia.\
Description
The Australian Wood Duck is a medium-sized ‘goose-like’ duck with a dark brown head and a pale grey body with two black stripes along the back. Males have the darker head and a small dark mane, with a speckled brown-grey breast and a black lower belly and undertail. The females have a paler head with two white stripes, above and below the eye, a speckled breast and flanks, with a white lower belly and undertail. In flight, the wings are pale grey above, contrasting with black wingtips, and have a noticeable white bar on the underside (the secondaries). They walk easily on land and may be seen perching on logs and in trees. They will only take to open water when disturbed. This species is also known as the Maned Duck or the Maned Goose.
Similar Species
The Australian Wood Duck can be distinguished from pygmy geese,Nettapus spp, which are smaller, have bold white face markings and are usually seen on water. Whistling ducks, Dendrocygna spp, have longer legs and necks, larger more duck-like bills and tend to walk more upright. When flying, the Australian Wood Duck is the only duck with white secondary feathers and dark wingtips.
Distribution
The Australian Wood Duck is widespread in Australia, including Tasmania.
Habitat
The Australian Wood Duck is found in grasslands, open woodlands, wetlands, flooded pastures and along the coast in inlets and bays. It is also common on farmland with dams, as well as around rice fields, sewage ponds and in urban parks. It will often be found around deeper lakes that may be unsuitable for other waterbirds’ foraging, as it prefers to forage on land.
Feeding
The Australian Wood Duck eats grasses, clover and other herbs, and occasionally, insects. It is rarely seen on open water, preferring to forage by dabbling in shallow water, or in grasslands and crops.
Breeding
The Australian Wood Duck forms monogamous breeding pairs that stay together year round. It nests in tree holes, above or near water, often re-using the same site. Both parents feed young and young birds remain with them up to a month after fledging.
Pink and Grey Galah (Cocky) – The Great Southern – Western Australia – (Eolophus roseicapilla)
Galahs were once confined to the open plains that occur beyond the inland slopes of the Great Divide in eastern Australia, north of the Flinders Ranges in South Australia, and north of the Mulga–Eucalypt line in Western Australia. However, following the clearing of subcoastal woodlands for farming, Galahs began to flood in, taking advantage of the new habitat and its abundant supply of food. They even spread to the coasts, where they are now a familiar sight in the cities.
Basic Information
Scientific Name: Eolophus roseicapillus
Featured bird groups: Parrots
Atlas Number:
273
What does it look like?
Description:
The Galah can be easily identified by its rose-pink head, neck and underparts, with paler pink crown, and grey back, wings and undertail. Birds from the west of Australia have comparatively paler plumage. Galahs have a bouncing acrobatic flight, but spend much of the day sheltering from heat in the foliage of trees and shrubs. Huge noisy flocks of birds congregate and roost together at night.
Similar species:
The Galah is generally unmistakable, but in flight may resemble aGang-gang Cockatoo in shape.
Where does it live?
Distribution:
The Galah is one of the most abundant and familiar of the Australian parrots, occurring over most of Australia, including some offshore islands.
Habitat:
The Galah is found in large flocks in a variety of timbered habitats, usually near water.
What does it do?
Feeding:
Galahs form huge, noisy flocks which feed on seeds, mostly from the ground. Seeds of grasses and cultivated crops are eaten, making these birds agricultural pests in some areas. Birds may travel large distances in search of favourable feeding grounds.
Breeding:
Galahs form permanent pair bonds, although a bird will take a new partner if the other one dies. The nest is a tree hollow or similar location, lined with leaves. Both sexes incubate the eggs and care for the young. There is high chick mortality in Galahs, with up to 50 % of chicks dying in the first six months. Galahs have been recorded breeding with other members of the cockatoo family, both in the wild and captivity. These include the Sulphur-crested Cockatoo, C. galerita.
Living with us
The Galah is becoming more abundant around areas of human habitation, with the growth in population largely a result of increasing availability of food and water. Escaped aviary birds have also contributed to these numbers.
References:
Parrots and Pigeons of Australia
Source:
http://www.birdsinbackyards.net/species/Eolophus-roseicapillus
http://www.birdlife.org.au/bird-profile/galah
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