Launceston & Ross

Drove to Launceston and to Bridestowe to see the blooming Lavender, stopped by at Ross.

Those tiny dots on the surface are Black Swan Cygnus atratus, at 1.4 meters and a wing span of over 1.5 meters is unmistakable from afar.



 Picturesque landscape along the highway.

 Friendly ducks at the river bank near the bridge at Ross.

 A Cormorant sp. perch on a branch, too far for me to positively identify.

 Eurasian Coot Fulica atra

This is likely a hybrid of Northern Mallard Anas platyrhynchos and Pacific Black Duck Anas superciliosa

That is why the ducks are so friendly.

 House Sparrow Passer domesticus feeding on table of the Ross Village Bakery

  A Wallaby foraging at the ground of Cataract Gorge.

Cataract Gorge

Cataract Gorge

 

Bridestowe Lavender Farm in drizzle

Lavender 

A pair of Superb Fairy-Wren Malurus cyaneus

Brush Bronzewing Phaps elegans

Happy birding.

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Sorell and Richmond

Drove to Sorell to see and pluck some temperate fruits, later to Richmond. Saw some tame ducks and water birds beneath the Richmond bridge.

Signboard

Apricot

 Strawberry

 Cherry

 House Sparrow Passer domesticus on the roof

Tayberry

Jostaberry

Silvenberry

 Bales of hay

Wheat 

 Seven mile beach

 Duck hybrids

Tasmanian Native Hen Tribonyx mortierii

Photographing the ducks with my GF1 and kit lens.

Mallards Anas platyrhynchos , Pacific Black Ducks Anas superciliosa and hybrid ducks 

Mallard 

 Eurasian Coot Fulica atra and Pacific Black Duck

The oldest bridge in Tasmania, completed in 1825 by convicts.

Happy birding.

Photodocument of Wild Birds of Borneo.

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