Yesterday while out an about in the morning I noticed some noises in a tree in our green waste area. A closer look revealed a pair of Black Butcherbirds (Cracticus quoyi) ripping apart some Common Myna (Acridotheres tristis) feldglings. I managed to get some decent footage too!

The actual point of my expedition yesterday morning was to get some good photos and videos of the local Metallic Starling (Aplonis metallica) colony, which I did, but Youtube seems intent on frustrating me by making the video choppy after processing. So to compensate, here is a short video of an Orange-footed Scrubfowl (Megapodius reinwardt) digging about in the scrub near the beach out at Yorkey’s Knob that I shot yesterday afternoon.

This was the first time I had been to Yorkeys with the specific intent of shooting some birds. The trip was arranged under the guise of visiting friends, but unluckily heavy cloud cover late in the day stopped the trip from reaching its full potential! Here are some of the clean shots I managed to get.