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HAPPY BIRD DAY!

  • just_kitten
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    Bird day: for most of my holiday I stayed in a hut that a lyrebird lived right outside of. Every morning I’d get the multipack of birdsong waking me up. I’d tarry a while just to hear his full repertoire. It was beautiful.

    I saw couples of lyrebirds casually strolling around the property and hopping off garden walls. Didn’t have my phone on me for the most part so didn’t take any photos.

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      I have to admit, lyrebirds are not spectacular to look at, unless male and dancing on their mound.

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        They’re on the upper side of mid. Not much colour ordinarily, but lovely tails and a fairly sizeable and mobile bird. One of the larger birds in forested inland areas aside from emus…