We have invited a few emus to live on Raakajlim. Job description: “Eat, walk and poo”. And now we have giant Quandong-filled poo all over the place!

Here is a bird list for Raakajlim, as well as lists of birds you can expect to see in the Victorian Mallee.

I didn’t think I would be ever be sharing photos of ducks on Raakajlim Creek. A truly extraordinary flooding event.

Bee-eaters are colorful birds that migrate to the southern states in Spring and Summer. How consistent is their early October arrival date?

Dark emu is in the sky, the emus have laid their eggs, but I’ve been looking at their poo.

A mob of 53 Pink Cockatoos feeding on native Pine and … grapes

Finally we have the trifecta of Fairywren photographs! These three beauties are all found on Raakajlim.

Juvenile birds can have odd colors, stripes or weird bits, totally different to the adults, just to make things tricky.

A bird which eats, sleeps, drinks, mates and bathes on the wing and has a strange affinity with radar-shielding fluff.

These colorful birds migrate to the southern states in Spring and Summer.

The Little Button-quail bred in the grasslands on Raakajlim in 2020. Very exciting to see them.

The Zebra Finches are here in numbers which means the Porcupine Grass seed is ripe. Porcupine Grass (Triodia scariosa), sometimes called Spinifex, has an interesting story …

A Collared Sparrowhawk showing its distinctive long middle toe.

The emus have hatched their eggs, leaving two eggs behind.

A Nankeen Kestrel and thoughts on bird photography.

Pink Cockatoos can struggle to find a suitable hollow tree. This pair nested in our creekline!

The sad demise of the Southern Whiteface

The Purple-backed and Splendid Fairywrens are putting on a show this winter.

A welcome visitor