Hawthorne Canal Birds – 29 March 2022

The Hawthorne Canal has been an interesting place to photograph birds recently. On my previous visit, I had photographed a Sacred Kingfisher. I saw it again this time, and I also saw a Brown Goshawk.

This was an afternoon visit after some rain earlier in the day.

The first bird I spotted was an Australasian Figbird –

Sacred Kingfisher

It grabbed something from the surface of the water.

It was a cockroach.

I could see some of these small fish in the canal. Perhaps poisonous?

Here the Kingfisher is being harassed by a pair of Noisy Miners.

The Kingfisher flew off after that.

Musk Lorikeet

And there were plenty of Earth Stars.

Then I heard a commotion. Alarm calls from lots of birds. I Cooke dup to see if I could spot a raptor. None was flying. I eventually spotted a Brown Goshawk perched high in a pine tree.

Here the Goshawk is moving. It was being harassed by Ravens.

It flies off and later returns to the same perch.

Some of the Noisy Miners were taking off and flying up into the air and then returning to their perches. What were they doing? Catching insects.

And another –

And one more –

This had been a short but very productive session of bird photography. Thanks to local birder Michael Crawley for the advice to look out for the Brown Goshawk as well as the Sacred Kingfisher.