Brown Tree Creeper

BROWN TREE CREEPER Climacteris picumnus

Out near the Sewerage Treatment, to the west  of Kilmore, is a paddock owned by the Trust For Nature Foundation.





The only access to this paddock is via a track alongside the ponds.







The ponds are always busy with a number of water birds, so it is a good place for a walk with a camera.




The Trust for Nature paddock is about ten or fifteen acres in size, lightly wooded and free of grazing animals. Here too there are always plenty of birds to see.

Today I watched a number of tree creepers, busy up and down the trees. No! They were busy going up the trees. They fly in low to a tree and make their way upwards, picking at the bark as they go. There  must be plenty  of food about at the moment because each bird takes quite a time to move from low down the trunk to the very tips of the trees.

These, I think are Brown Tree Creepers. They have  beautifully striated flecks running down their chests and sides, tan on whit and hence the name brown tree creepers.

The male has short flecks on his upper chest, about where he might tie his bow tie.