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Pied Currawongs are visiting my backyard at the moment, to feed on berries (Brazilian Peppertree, and Chinese Elm), and utilise the birdbath to help regurgitate the seeds (#4 photo shows a 2cm regurgitated pellet. It looked solid but broke apart when I tried to remove it from the birdbath).

I also observed one banging seeds on my neighbours’ roof. These are likely to be the larger seeds from a native Cheese tree.

Toowong/Mt Coot-Tha (Gootcha/Kuta),
Brisbane (Meanjin)

Our neighbor's cat killed this Passeriform and brought it into our house to play with or to gift. The bird had a bloody raw spot near the neck.

The top and bottom of its tail are shown in images 2, 3 and 4. The feet are shown in images 5 and 6. The wound and blood are shown in image 7.
The front and back of the wing are shown in images 9 and 10.
Some scat/droppings were around the butt which fell out, shown in image 13.

I buried the dead bird in our compost bin to keep it away from the cat, who was chasing me down asking for her gift back.

As always, I tried to create good from the sad situation by providing as many photo angles as possible. Hopefully these will be useful to someone.

Spotted at Caspers wilderness Park on 7/4/21 on a mountain bike ride. The coyote was standing at attention and I was photographing it when the badger crossed interview and the coyote moved off. Presumably this was a symbiotic feeding behavior