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-throated Treecreeper (Cormobates leucophaea) or Weißkehl-Baumrutscher 2013/03/20

It’s very likely that you’ll notice these small passerines when you hike or take a walk in the many forests of the National Parks in New South Wales but don’t forget to wear one of those fluorescing vests or similar very bright coloured apparel if you don’t want to risk to end your day in the outdoors shot dead.

The White-winged Chough (Corcorax melanorhamphos) or Drosselkrähe 2013/03/14

I really love these highly social and smart birds that are often mistaken for "crows", a double mistake, as the birds most frequently called "crows" in Australia are actually ravens.

The Black-fronted Dotterel (Elseyornis melanops) or Schwarzstirnregenpfeife 2013/02/06

Whilst researching on my computer for our Bird Of The Week, the Black-fronted Dotterel, I had yet another dot-com bubble bursting in my house. It wasn’t my bubbly namesake Kim Schmitz aka Kim Dotcom bursting into the apartment, which is a disturbing imagination itself, I’m alluding here to the constantly recurring collapse of the Internet connection in my neighbourhood.

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