The pink legs looked familiar and I couldn't remember which of the common small birds that it reminded me of (grey fantail, eastern yellow robin or white-browed scrub wren), but having checked I think it is a WBSR.
Gee I hope the site invader doesn't latch on to this or we could end up with more bottoms than you can imagine.Good idea M-L you said you would start this off. I am sure we all have a number of these somewhere.
The spinebill was a juvenile, it had problems holding on to the leaves.
The baby is not an Eastern Yellow Robin. It had just come out of the nest, I watched them one by one fly. If you could call it that. Pay attention to the tiny tail, it still has to grow.
Pretty close, Araminta, it is a yellow-spotted honeyeater. We do not have Lewin's in our garden, but the yellow-spotted seems to occupy the same niche, with very similar behaviour and voice.
The pink legs looked familiar and I couldn't remember which of the common small birds that it reminded me of (grey fantail, eastern yellow robin or white-browed scrub wren), but having checked I think it is a WBSR.
Cheers
Tim
Brisbane
Sorry Tim, none of the birds you named is correct. Try again,
M-L
Is it a thornbill??
I'd guess a thornbill.
- soakes
soakes
Olinda, Victoria, Australia
Yes, soakes and Jackie, it is the bottom of a Brown Thornbill. Feel free to post your bottoms. (bird-bottoms that is)
M-L
Glad you clarified that Araminta! LOL Oh how I have soooo many bottoms!
Gee I hope the site invader doesn't latch on to this or we could end up with more bottoms than you can imagine.Good idea M-L you said you would start this off. I am sure we all have a number of these somewhere.
Regards
Shane
Thanks Shane, show us your bottom ! LOL I want to see it.
M-L
this should be easy
Peter
Peter, is it a big or small bird? It looks rather fat?
M-L
my guide says 28-34 cm, not a thin bird
Peter
that means it would be Wattlebird or even Bronzewing Size?
M-L
my guide says Little Wattlebird is 28-35cm but this bird is definitely built like a Bronzewing not a Wattlebird
Peter
So, it is a kind of Rock-Pigeon?
M-L
no
hint: it has very interesting colouring
Peter
Gosh I go away for a couple of weeks and the site degenerates to photos of bottoms!
Yes Holly, you can't leave the children at home, you should have taken us with you.
Come on then, who's bottom is this? I don't know.
M-L
hint #1: it has very interesting colouring
hint #2: I saw 1 today in the gum tree outside my work site
Peter
So the criteria seem to be:
The only one that seems to fit those criteria is the Satin Bowerbird
Cheers
Tim
Brisbane
Timmo has got it - male Satin Bowerbird
Peter
Bottoms up!
well Timmo didn't post a new 'bottom' so I thought that I could - a new pic today at Collaroy, Northern Beaches, Sydney, NSW
Peter
A kestrel
See it! Hear it!
Mid-North Coast NSW
I would go for a sea bird, Albatross or Petrel ?
M-L
sorry for my delayed response
I've been out driving around the Gosford area
Darrin is right, I got the pic yesterday at Collaroy near the Long Reef glf course, the bird was hovering but facing the wrong way
Peter
this one is a special request from Peter, he asked for one of my bottoms.
It's far too easy, but I only have one bottom.
M-L
a male Rufous Whistler?
Peter
Sorry Peter, but it's not.... next guess...
M-L
a Striated Thornbill?
Peter
I stuttered
Peter
ooo, not the one. Not as easy as I thought then? Here is the same bird the bottom belongs to.
M-L
Eastern spine bill
See it! Hear it!
Mid-North Coast NSW
Yes nightowl, it is an Eastern Spinebill.
Peter was going to put up a bottom, but I just found one more.
A very cute Baby bottom of a ...........?
M-L
a very good pic of the Spinebill - is there glue on the branch?
my 1st gues for the new bottom is - Eastern Yellow Robin
Peter
The spinebill was a juvenile, it had problems holding on to the leaves.
The baby is not an Eastern Yellow Robin. It had just come out of the nest, I watched them one by one fly. If you could call it that. Pay attention to the tiny tail, it still has to grow.
M-L
S . blue wren
See it! Hear it!
Mid-North Coast NSW
Yes nightowl. Where ever I am ,I'm never far away from a Superb Fairy-wren. One of many Babies they had last year.
M-L
Uploading didn't work, will put the photo up later.
M-L
Just a heads (or bottoms up) guys - the site will go down today as part of the maintenance, posts made yesterday and today may disappear.
we seem to have forgotten about this very interesting thread - it may be at the bottom of our lists
so here is a new pic
Peter
I have a bottom of a sleeping bird:
Christina
Peter, is yours a Honeyeater?
Christina, juvenile Yellow Robin?
M-L
No juvenile and no robin.
Christina
mine is not from the Honeyeater family
it is a pic that you often get with this bird
Christina is yours a Brown Honeyeater
Peter
Getting warmer, Peter, it is a honeyeater, but not a brown one. It looks a bit fluffed up because it was sleeping.
Christina
Christina - Rufous-throated Honeyeater?
Peter
Christina, is it a Lewin's Honeyeater?
M-L
Pretty close, Araminta, it is a yellow-spotted honeyeater. We do not have Lewin's in our garden, but the yellow-spotted seems to occupy the same niche, with very similar behaviour and voice.
Your photo of the baby wren bottom is fantastic!!
Christina
Peter,
Perhaps an Eastern whipbird?
I seem to always get half pics of them, if any.
Cheers
Tim
Brisbane
yes, Tim an Eastern whipbird
Peter
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