I spy with my little eye, something beginning with 'C'

You got it; they're clouds, but they're floating over 'B' for Bingara, in Northern N.S.W., (didn't think you'd get that, so made it an easy one).

Bingara is an inland country town known to be 'half-way' between Sydney, and Brisbane, Qld., with a population in 2011 of 1,336.

                               

450 klms from home base

  It's almost 7 a.m. (daylight saving time), when I take my first walk around, scouting for birds

Crested Pigeon

White-browed Scrubwrens, there were several, and they were quite difficult to pick up; forever hopping from one spot to another.  A few Superb Fairy-Wrens were amongst them.

looking down, over the Myall Creek, this sweet little rose growing on the fence-line takes my eye

Dusky Moorhens

later that morning, beside the Gwydir River; a Little Black Cormorant

oh,  ...and friend

home, sweet home (for some feathered resident/s)