A few shots here from my morning out at Mt Mellum in the Sunshine Coast Hinterland. Mostly the usual array of suspects for the area, but some I'm not sure of.
Any help would be appreciated...
Eastern yellow Robin.
This guy and his partner were such curious little birds - they came down nice and close to have a look at what I was doing.
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About to take off...
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Galah
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Grey Fantail - curious as usual!
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Kookaburra
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Red Browed Finch preening
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Resting
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White browed Scrubwren
...and in full voice
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And now the unknowns...
Unknown Bird 1 (1 shot)
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Unknown Bird 2 (3 shots)
My thoughts were Shrike-thrush or whistler of some sort. There were a pair of them up in the fig tree eating small figs, and it didn't appear to be a Golden Whistler.
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I also saw King Parrots, Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoos, a Rufous fantail, Eastern Whipbirds, Rainbow Lorikeets, Variegated Fairy Wrens, Bar shouldered doves, Golden Whistlers and more, but was not quite quick enough (or in-focus enough) with the camera to get any good pics.
Hi Timmo..... looks like our day out the other day LOL Not too far from where we were , I love Mt Mellum.
I would say that it is a female GW or maybe some kind of SHrike -thrush...maybe the grey?
Nice catches. Were you up visiting the family then?
Sunshine Coast Queensland
You've taken some good shots of the finches and the scrubwrens,Timmo. I always find them so hard to photograph. Maybe I need to get a camera with a better zoom.
Ninox
Ninox
Gday timmo.
the first bird could be a little shrike thrush. i saw something similar when I visited brisbane and I am still not sur shat it is.
The robin shots are nice and I especially like the scrubwren.
Cheers, Owen.
birdie,
Thanks for the suggestions.
I'm tending towards a female or immature golden whistler, I think. There was a pair of them flying round eating the figs but I didn't see any mature male GWs. The beak seems a bit small for a shrike-thrush.
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Yes, I was up at my folks' place, just visiting for Mother's Day and stuff.
Thanks Ninox,
The posted photos are only about 1/16th of the original image, as the zoom on the camera I was using is only up to 180mm.
Cheers
Tim
Brisbane
Looks like a great day out. The Eastern yellow robin is lovely - so bright. Sorry I can't help you with the ids