9th posting of photographs of Sydney August, 2015
The captions give the names and locations of these Australian bird photographs created August 2 to August 19, 2015.
Masked Lapwing, The Spit
White-faced Heron, Mackenzies Bay
Black Swan, Centennial Park
Hardhead, Centennial Park
Australasian Darter, Centennial Park
Australasian Darter, Centennial Park
Little Pied Cormorant, Spit Road Bridge
Silver Gull, Sydney Fish Martket
Fascinating birds – the Australasian Darter image is stunning especially, looks like he was shy to be in the picture 🙂 great lighting!
Thank you Indah.
Thank you.
Lovely birds. Hardhead duck is really cute.
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Great photos, Sherry Lynn. I’ve never heard of a hardhead duck, looks similar to our cinnamon teal, a beautiful bird.
I looked it up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardhead. The Hardhead is in the Pochard group https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_pochard and is similar to the American Redhead and Canvasback. Funny name, Hardhead, wonder where that came from. I love etymology.