On Monday (yesterday) one of the places I went to had lots of small birds
Yellow-faced honeyeater
Not sure about this one - it looks a bit like a female golden whistler but it has no sign of yellow on the underside of the base of the tail and it appears to have a black line through the eye
Yellow thornbill - isn't the yellow on the tail intense?
I don't know this one - it was about the size of a noisy miner - noticeably bigger than all the other little birds like thornbills
This may be the same one as #2 but it doesn't appear to have the black eye stripe
Lovely photos there Birdgirl, especially the yellow faced honeyeater, I've always wanted to see one and that's a great photo :) Just wondering, is you yellow thornbill a yellow-rumped thornbill?
nice shots birdgirl. The second and last one look like a Jacky Winter and the second last one looks like a Grey shrike thrush. small birds are often hard to ID.
Cheers, Owen.
Morning birdgirl, nice shots.As Owen said, the the forth one is def. a grey shrike thrush. I have been staring at No 2 for some time and looked at my photos of golden whistlers,I do think it is a female golden whistler.(then again mine are a bit more brownish on the back?Well, you know, I'm often wrong.LOL)
M-L
Great shots Kim. Jacky Winter and GST for sure. :-)
Another set of great shots, Birdgirl. How do you guys do it???
Could I suggest the bills & head shapes in nos. 2 & 5 would indicate they're a Jacky Winter & female golden whistler respectively. Jacky Winter's bill is shorter & head more rounded than the female golden whistler. The bill of the latter is longer & a little more robust than the Jacky Winter.
On the other hand...the narrow white patch on the leading edge of the wing of no. 2 might indicate it's a female golden whistler. Scrutiny with an intense scrute in needed in these situations.
No. 4 I'd say is a juvenile (note the fine striations on the front) grey shrike thrush & no. 3 a yellow-rumped thornbill.
Trying to work all this out has made my eyes go crossed so I'd best sign off.
I believe the female Golden Whistler has a thicker bill, like this image and there is no hint of the buff-ish breast as in this image:
http://www.birdway.com.au/pachycephalidae/golden_whistler/source/image/golden_whistler_47800.jpg
Here is a Jacky Winter image I took and it looks to me exactly like 2 and 5. :-)
http://amatteroflight.com/gallery2/d/466-4/Jacky+Winter_7689.jpg
Kind regards
Windhover
Akos, I checked my photos of fem GW again, You,Owen and Woko are absolutely right about the bills, those birds (2 and 5) are Jacky Winters!
M-L
Hmmm. A conundrum, I think. I thought No. 5 was probably a golden whistler but it doesn't seem to have a red eye which would point in the direction of it being a Jacky Winter. But I'm then puzzled about the longer & more robust bill of no. 5 compared with no. 2 which would indicate no. 5 is a female golden whistler.
The other thing I'm puzzled by is the general form of the 2 birds. No. 2 is squatter than no. 5 which indicates 2 is a Jacky Winter & 5 is a female golden whistler. But the tail of 2 is narrower than that of 5 which indicates the reverse.
I don't suppose both are a Jacky whistler by any chance?
Hm Woko, now you have lost me, I looked at my GW photos again, what do you mean by "red eye"? The fem.Golden Whistlers don't have red eyes. They round black eyes, (like Robins)! I'm out of this now !
M-L
Really nice set of shots Birdgirl.