Wildlife: Birdsters! May is here and we want to see your 'firsts'! :-), 1 by kennedyh

kennedyh wrote:
Finally, the Australian Raven Corvus coronoides arrived. This is a regular visitor to the garden, but they are very wary birds and up to now I have never managed a photograph. On Sunday, instead of standing at the open screen door as I had for the other birds, I stayed in my chair and tried a picture through the screen door and the result was much better than I had expected. Note the white eye. All the Australian crows and ravens (5 species in all) have white eyes. The currawongs on the other hand have yellow eyes, see the previous picture. Here is my first ever Australian Raven picture: