Doves [Pt II] and Pitta Perfect

Cameron is in school for a half day on Wednesday and so having cleaned the floors and done all the routine housework and prepared tea [pasta with a fresh vegetable sauce] deiced to make the most of a less hot day and go back to Buffalo Creek to see if I could refind the wader roost and get some decent photos.
I certainly got some nice pictures but not of my intended subjects.
The roost had moved and so I headed back to the car to drive down to the next car park - with the tide all the way in did not fancy wading through knee deep water just in case! As it was quite late in the morning I was not really paying a huge amount of attention to the forest edge as there had been several cars drive past and so anything interesting would have been flushed back into the forest - how wrong I was!
I had barely gone 100m when I spotted this little beauty walking out of the forest..

...it was an amazing co-incidence having blogged about Rose-Crowned Fruit Dove yesterday to have brilliant views of Emerald Dove [mentioned in the blog as the other beautiful dove of the Top End].
As I was watching the dove my attention was drawn to another beauty walking out of the forest edge, and two Rainbow Pitta promptly appeared and put on a show for the next hour or so. I only got one very poor shot of both of them together [have not posted it] but took the odd picture of the pittas - in total got over 250 photos which I edited down to 77 of the best.
One of them seemed completely unconcerned about me and allowed me to follow it around before I sat back in the car as it walked ever closer.
Have posted a few of the best here..

I also got a couple of nice shots of probably the daftest Aus bird I have encountered so far the Orange Footed Scrubfowl. These birds belong to an ancient group the Megapodes that bury their eggs in an earth mound to incubate them. As a result they are very territorial and are quite aggressive with it. They have in my opinion a head that is too small for their bodies and a daft running style - a very entertaining bird to watch.
These two came racing up to investigate me and were I think a bit put out when I did not cower away in fear [I should add that I was nowhere near their nest mound].