Perth Birds and Bush

11/09/2024

It's looking like another spectacular spring in Perth, 🤩🤸‍♀️🦎🌸

22/07/2024

Thanks ! It was nice to come home to this certificate after my 8 week holiday! I have enjoyed submitting surveys to Birdata since February 1999. After 25 years I have submitted over 2500 bird surveys. It's brilliant to know that my birdwatching is contributing to bird conservation.

But looking at my map of survey sites, I definitely need to explore the of Australia much more! Maybe I need another holiday!

18/05/2024

The Western Yellow Robin is found in the southwestern areas of Western Australia and the southwestern part of South Australia. It has a grey breast band, unlike the Eastern Yellow Robin which has a yellow breast.

13/05/2024

The majestic looking Black Swan is one of the common species found in wetlands in Perth. It mostly eats aquatic plants and algae but can sometimes be seen grazing an lawns that are near to wetlands.

08/05/2024

These three amigos are all Little Black Cormorants! The leader is an adult with breeding plumage on its face and neck, the middle one is an adult with non-breeding plumage and the right one is a young one.

05/05/2024

Tawny Frogmouths are an Australian endemic species. They sleep during the day usually in fork of a tree or the start of a tree branch and are usually hard to see as their feathers comouflage well with the bark. They wake up at dusk to hunt for their prey.

24/04/2024

Australasian Swamphen are found in Australia, New Zealand, several pacific islands, Papua New Guinea and Indonesia. They were once thought to be a subspecies of Purple Swamphen and many older bird books will show this name. In the southern parts of Western Australia the subspecies bellus is found which has the characteristically bright pale blue cheeks and centre chest. Do you think this subspecies will ever be split off as a separate species?

10/04/2024

This group of endangered Carnaby's Black-Cockatoo were certainly enjoying a free feed and water! Its wonderful to see caring organisations providing water for this endangered species that are declining 10 to 15% per year! It's especially needed in the terribly dry six months that we have had here in Perth.

07/12/2023

Amazing sunset tonight ❤🧡💛

29/10/2023

Fabulous afternoon watching the play the Philippines at ! Some fabulous goals by the tillies!

19/10/2023

WARNING. With Halloween coming soon, synthetic spider webs are being sold for decorating houses. If you do buy these, please use inside your home so our birds don't mistake them for real webs and use them for nesting material. There have been increasing reports of entanglements and deaths with these unbreakable threads. Please share.

15/10/2023

We are having a fantastic this year! It was been warm and wonderful! Here are a few photos from the past week - Horsfield's Bronze-Cuckoo, Australasian Swamphen, Spotted Scrubwren, Western Yellow and Sacred .

01/10/2023

It's the 1st of October and I have started my Royal Flying Doctors Service fund-raising and walking challenge. Please donate at https://www.oceanstooutback.org.au/fundraisers/robynpickering

Right now I am 6km done of the 95km needed to walk and have raised about a third of my goal.
The RFDS are saving lives in Australia everyday. An amazing organisation.💜👏

25/09/2023

Beautiful day in the bush today. The wildflowers in and near Perth are stunning at the moment.

16/09/2023

This October I am walking 95km to help the Royal Flying Doctor Service. Please 💙https://www.oceanstooutback.org.au/fundraisers/robynpickering

08/08/2023

Please sign this petition. Its not just owls that will be impacted by these poisons. Others birds of prey and other animals will eat rodents that have been poisoned.

Sign our open letter, sign our petition to Bunnings, or email your local council to keep dangerous second-generation anticoagulant rat poisons SGARs out of bird food chains! Or find the evidence about how SGARs threaten birds, pets, wildlife, and the environment via our evidence and alternative prod

07/08/2023

It was a nice warm winters day today and Lesmurdie Falls are looking great as are some of the early wildflowers 🙂❤

25/05/2023

Fabulous days birdwatching with Rob and Sharon from England on Monday. Highlights included Baudin's Black-Cockatoo, Carnaby's Black-Cockatoo, Red-capped Parrot, Western Rosella, Purple-crowned Lorikeet (image below), Blue-breasted Fairy-wren, Red-winged Fairy-wren, White-breasted Robin, Western Yellow Robin and Red-eared Firetail!