Happy Monday everyone.
I loved the stories around last week's challenge. I desperately tried to add to the 'outside the comfort zone' challenge - there has been a Noisy Pitta spotted at the Armory here over the past week - a quite unusual sighting in Sydney. Unfortunately just about everyone else has managed to see it but me!
Anyway, this week I thought we would shift focus back to a group of birds. This time, the Honeyeaters - and by Honeyeaters - I mean those with Honeyeater in their common name, not all members of the Meliphagidae family (so no Miners, Wattlebirds, Spinebills etc). Your challenge is to share a photo of a honeyeater - but we are only going to allow one photo per species (e.g. there can only be one photo featuring a New Holland Honeyeater.). Lets see how many of them we can get. I think there are about 54 species in total.
Guidelines:
- You can only post photos of birds whose common name ends in honeyeater - e.g. Blue-faced Honeyeater. Other honeyeater species (Wattlebirds etc) cannot be posted.
- Each species can only be posted once by any participant (and only one photo per participant for each species). If a species appears more than once then the subsequent post will be removed - e.g there can only be one photo posted of a White-cheeked Honeyeater.
- You take part multiple times but you must wait until 3 other people have posted before entering again. If you post within that frequency then your post will be removed.
Starting off with:
Strong-billed Honeyeater
West Coast Tasmania
Brown Honeyeater, ( Note to myself,"must learn more about reducing the size of photographs").
Samford Valley Qld.
A Scarlet honeyeater, I can't wait to see everyones photos
New Holland Honeyeater
M-L
Yellow-tufted Honeyeater.
Curtis
Black Honeyeater
Shorty......Canon gear
Canberra
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rawshorty/
White Plumed Honeyeater
Yellow-faced Honeyeater.
M-L
Singing Honeyeater
Kerry - Perth, Western Australia.
Striped honeyeater. Great photos everyone!!!
Fuscous Honeyeater
Shorty......Canon gear
Canberra
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rawshorty/
Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater.
Curtis
White-cheeked Honeyeater
Kerry - Perth, Western Australia.
Red-Headed Honeyeater
Painted Honeyeater
Shorty......Canon gear
Canberra
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rawshorty/
Crescent Honeyeater
West Coast Tasmania
Lewin's Honeyeater
M-L
White-naped Honeyeater
Kerry - Perth, Western Australia.
Blue-faced Honeyeater.
Curtis
White Fronted Honeyeater
Brown-headed Honeyeater
M-L
White-throated Honeyeater
This is a really bad shot but it is the only one I managed to get of a Mangrove Honeyeater that was worth even looking at.
Sunshine Coast Queensland
I'm begining to wonder just how many different species of Honeyeaters there are!! Some really good quality photo's folks!
Samford Valley Qld.
Beautiful shot Peter! I think this weeks challenge is only birds with the name Honeyeater at the end though, not all members of the Meliphagidae family, to quote Holly.
Just thought I'd mention it before this weeks challenge starts to go off track too.
West Coast Tasmania
Yep you are right Annie - just those with Honeyeaters in the common name (not all from the family). Sorry guys. I will remove that post Peter but please keep contributing.
oops, I did not read the instructions carefully (a boy read) - I will delete the above pic
Rufous-banded Honeyeater
Peter
White-eared Honeyeater.
Curtis
Took about 80 shots of this one and not one turned out good
Tawny-crowned Honeyeater
Shorty......Canon gear
Canberra
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rawshorty/
Araminta you posted the same species as Curtis, the rules are: Each species can only be posted once by any participant.
Yep double-checking - the Helmeted Honeyeater is a sub species of the Yellow-tufted (I had to double-check, I thought they were separate).
Will remove the Helmeted but ML - post another species.
Sorry about that Araminta, but what a lovely photo
! Apparently, they're a critically endangered subspecies.
Curtis
Regent Honeyeater... apologies for the terrible photo but it was high against the sun.
A Eungella Honeyeater - only found in the Eungella Ranges, west of Mackay, Qld
Peter
Thanks for that Holly .I would like to point out that the Helmeted Honeyeater is one of the most endangered birds, with only about 80 birds left.I thought about this before posting and thought it might be of interest to show it. Must be new , still think it is seperate.
M-L
Thanks ML - yes they are in big trouble.
I can't keep up with all the taxonomic changes!
I didn't even notice that it was race cassidix, if I had noticed I wouldn't have thought it was against the rules since it looks so different.
Keep posting folks - I think that I have 5 more to add.
Peter
Just fantastic photos people. I'm done but hoping to see many more.
Wonderful Honeyeater collection so far everyone!
Black-headed Honeyeater
West Coast Tasmania
I have 5 more (although my Dusky HE is a poor shot). Great to see so many represented. What a lovely Black-Headed HE
Sue
Holly - no new pics for a day, please consider amending the rules to allow for a pic after 1 other pic has been posted
Peter
I am all out, but it sounds like there are some more photos to come - I can't wait! I never realised that there were so many honeyeaters!
Well done everyone!
I have one left from Tas (we only have six), unless of course anyone who hasn't posted or posted for a while wishes to pop it up before Sunday.
West Coast Tasmania
White gaped honeyeater
Good one Headise. What a wonderful collection of HE pictures this challenge has produced.
Yellow-Tinted Honeyeater. Now I have only 3 HE shots remaining being Grey-Headed, Yellow and Dusky HEs. They are not my best photos so hopefully someone else can fill in the gaps. Sue
Yep lets go one poster in between now - well done everyone.
Grey headed honeyeater.
Dusky Honeyeater
Barred Honeyeater.
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