Couldn't really do them justice but they were very amusing this morning.... tweeting on both sides of the road and creek so I didn't know where to look next!
The non breeding males were very cheeky and inquisitive
But the breeding male was much more coy and would not be led away from the cover.....not sure if there was a nest to protect or a harem of girls LOL
Their habitat makes it about as easy to pick them as finding the proverbial needle in a haystack!
they are so quick!
Sunshine Coast Queensland
Birdie your wrens are beautiful. What a wonderful colour the breeding male is.
Yes Birdie, they are quick, but so are you,(and the camera LOL). I love action shots!Amazing, how far up in the air those little wings go, to get up to speed, to propelle the little bird!! I have so many of them in my garden, just like you, I hear them there, but when I get "there", they are somewhere else. I know exactly what you went through to get those shots!!
M-L
Super shots Birdie and the one with the wings out is awesome.
They must be a pain to find int that type of habitat.
Thanx for sharing.
Cheers, Owen.
Thanks guys..... I had just started my walk and heard them everywhere, at first I thought it was just the White browed scrub wren..... dont know what happened to the shots of them... maybe I didn't get one as they were really damn quick! This is only a few hundred metres from my house at the other side of the bush where my creek joins another creek. I walk over the little causeway and they hang out just below the road level in the Papyrus reeds and the bracken. this morning the air was more alive with tweets than Twitter .....LMAO
Sunshine Coast Queensland
Birdie, those flight shots are amazing! I love them.
Andy I was really pleased to get them as I did get a few shots of a nice branch with lots of "air" LOL What I wouldn't give for a sharp lens and a decent motor drive...ah but then I would have nothing to moan about and maybe it would take the challenge out of it all :')
Sunshine Coast Queensland
Well done you to find and especially photograph such busy little birds in all those leaves. Not an easy job for anyone
Very nice Adrienne.
Much better pictures than my sole effort. Too fast and too small!
They are hard to catch that is for sure Sherro..... I always find with Wrens that they are such busy little birds that if you sit still for a while they forget about you and just go about their business. In this instance I was walking over a culvert and going to pick up the dog that I walk and they were on either side of the road in the undergrowth. I ended up hanging around them for nearly 45 minutes . Had to force myself to move on in the end or the dog would have missed the walk entirely! They are so fascinating to watch :)
Sunshine Coast Queensland
They are sure hard to photograph. The only shot I have of a variegated is an obscured, blurred female. There were also red-winged fairy wrens around, but they were also too hard to get good shots of.
Cheers, Owen.
Very nice Birdie, well worth hanging around for.