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Alert Noisy Miner in our garden. My entry for Flickr's "Your worst shot 2020" contest. Not wanting to lose the composition, I shot with 100mm lens at hand. Cropping reveals the blunder
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Adult Australian magpie stands cool/firm in the face of verbal and stomping onslaught by aggressive Noisy Miner defending its territory
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Watch how crafty adult Noisy Miner hassles poor juvenile Australian magpie who is without parental support. Video shot at high magnification to get nearer the action is jumpy at times.
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Fearless Noisy Miner heading from our garden towards a territorrial intruder to scare it off
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Feared Noisy Miner keeping watch over its territory. It seems to say "Sydney Olympic Park is mine - so stay clear!"
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Amazing David/Goliath battle over our garden, part 1 - fearless Noisy Miner harassing a larger Kookaburra to leave its territory - see what daring the Noisy miner gets up to in the following image!
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Amazing David/Goliath battle over our garden, part 2 - daring Noisy Miner in acrobatic moves to nip Kookaburra's butt and unbalance it to scare it off its territory!
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Fearless Noisy Miner at our garden ruffles its feathers to keep warm and continues on dusk watch for territory intruders. Don't be fooled by its small size, it easily takes on much larger enemies
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High level social distanced Noisy Miner conference in our garden area on dealing with intruders
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"You stay out of my area" - aggressive Noisy Miner at our garden warns potential intruders
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Noisy Miner feasting on Camellia flower nectar in our garden. That's why they don't want competition in their territory!
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Trademark Noisy Miner nasty stare at intruder - enough to scare anyone - taken from our garden
