Bird of the Week - Bernhard Schmitz Photography

Whilst I’m a fairly novice bird watcher, Suki the cat had always a great interest in birds for her own reasons. With the exception of cooked specimens, I tended to ignore feathered animals before I moved to Australia in late 2005 to join Mrs. Schmitz in Sydney. This changed soon after we settled in the suburb of North Bondi where the sheer abundance of colourful and exotic species sparked my interest in avian topics. I started to write down bird inspired observations which I put on this little weekly blog about Australia, Sydney and the feathered and not feathered locals.

Bernhard Schmitz & Suki the cat

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The White-breasted Woodswallow (Artamus leucorynchus) or Weissbauch-Schwalbenstar 2012/04/26

These two sociable little birds you can see here have been only a pair out of a large and noisy troop occupying a tree in the center of Darwin the capital of the Northern Territory.

The Cattle Egret (Bubulcus ibis) or Kuhreiher 2012/03/29

The Cattle Egret is a rare example of a wild bird popular with stock farmers, who generally exhibit a rather paranoid attitude in regards to any other wildlife.

The White-headed Pigeon (Columba leucomela) or Weißbrusttaube 2012/03/22

Mrs Schmitz and I encountered this very quiet and elusive pigeon in Barrington Tops National Park this January where at the same time and without us even realizing, the biggest manhunt in the history of New South Wales was on the way.

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