Was packing up my gear at D'aguilar this afternoon when I spotted this little feller eating one of my nemeses as a bushwalker - the Cobbler's Peg.
Enjoy. 
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Tell us more about the Cobbler's Peg, windshear.
Is that the annoying plant that has these seeds that stick on your clothes? Nice shots.
A very irritating, very prolific weed. A mere brush with it usually leaves you covered in little sticky seed things that you have to spend ages picking off.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bidens_pilosa
(pic borrowed from google images for effect)
Yikes! & thanks, windshear.
Given that this is a weed you no doubt carefully placed the seeds in a plastic bag & disposed of the bag appropriately. Cobbler's Peg Bidens pilosa obviously partly relies on transport by animals such as Homo sapiens to proliferate. I'm surprised that it's not listed as a notifiable weed in Queensland as with all those seeds I expect it to be highly invasive of natural bushland.
*coughs* awkward silence.
There's always next time, windshear.
Samford Valley Qld.
Nice photos windshear. Cute little birds.
I recently took shots of exactly same thing in lane cove NP in Sydney. I was very surprised that the finches would eat those seeds as they are extremely hard, like little barbed thorns. They get in your clothes like little needles working their way through to prick into the flesh.