Well .... I finally overcome sloth an took a few photos this last weekend at my place.
I am not sure of any of the IDs except for the little blue wren
First guess .... Pale Headed Rosellas ? Got heaps of these, with the red bill surround and the pale bill surround. Excuse my non-techy terms ... haahaa
More to come
I really likes the symmetry down the back of this little fella ..
And this one I had to over expose as the sun was behind him. I am guessing a Silver-Eye ?
So far so Good ... ????
More to come
Ummmmmmm ..... I am gunna go against the flow here and say this is not a Lewin's Honeyeater.
It is only about 150mm and is extremely agile .. ? I think it may be a different sort of honeyeater ??
I apologise for the focus etc, but the camera is in manual, hand held and 300mm focal length.
And finally for just one nano second the little bastard stayed still for a photo .... so energetic
Hope you enjoyed ....
cool bananas ... greg
Yep, all those IDs seem right to me.
1) Pale Headed Rosella
2) Superb Fairy Wren
3) Silvereye
4) I can't see what else it would be other than a Lewin's with that ear patch
Cheers
Tim
Brisbane
ummmm ... white eared ?? or yellow eared ??
Its just that according to my book, the size and agility did not match the Lewin's H. ?
PHOTOS FROM WIKI.
Haha, if that photo is from WIKI, I have better ones than that. Anyway, it is a Lewin's Honeyeater.
M-L
Here is one of a juvenile Lewin's Honeyeater, enjoy.
I love your photos, they are great.
M-L
Well ... It must be a Lewins. I know better than to gainsay your knowledge Araminta ...haahha
My book said that the 'yellow eared' is fearless of man, will land on your clothes and take threads for its nest, while your wearing them. It said it was smaller than the other honeyeaters and extremely acrobatic. Well .... he was all these things, and the picture in the book matched him. The little fella landed on the red lexcen bonnet of my little truck, causing me to gulp too much hot coffee and choke. He didn't seem to mind me choking, and as he could get no grip on the lexen, he was happy to slide down it like a giant slippery slide ... then fly back to the top ,... and slide down again ...
My little truck is the one on the left ... in case you didn't guess ... so funny. The birds up here do not seem to be scared of it, once its parked and quiet they will even land on the roll cage.
Thank you for liking the photos .. they were sorta taken on the fly as I ditched my coffee, cigarette stuck in mouth, smoke in eyes and tryin to focus an control my overgrown camera.
In other news, (a bit like fishing and the one that got away) the troupe of whipbirds passed by me in the deep weeds and I couldn't photo. One jumped up onto a trunk, like a treecreeper and hop upwards to about three metres before dropping back down to his mates in the weeds. He had an army green tinge to his wings.
I watched the black shouldered kite hunt the balds as the sun was setting ... (no !@#$%% camera) ... and he made three kills out of four attempts ...
Let me qualify that outrageous statement. The kill he didn't get; he came down in a long dive, swanning out at the ground level and jetting thru the long grass for about 4 metres and then rose back up into the sky. Whatever it was it must have had hair trigger senses to get away ..so fast.
The other three he dropped/dived .... and in one even spiralled, and disappeared into the grass. He never rose for about two minutes each time. My presumption is that he eats on the ground where he makes the kill ?
I could easily be wrong ...
cool bananas ... Greg
Those last two bird shots of yours are of a white-eared honeyeater in my opinion, Greg.
Woko I assume that you mean the 2 pics in post #5
Peter
M-L
The two birds in post five are examples from the Wiki ... not my shots ... sorry for confusion ..
Greg
M-L
Thats a lovely photo of the baby Lewin's Honeyeater M-L, I suppose thats its little tongue poking out?
Curtis
Yes, Greg. And thanks for the clarification about the origin of those shots.
Araminta, you were right. Again!
My guess for the bird in post #3 would be Lewin's Honeyeater?, but Greg never said where he took the photos! Was it in range of Yellow-spotted or Graceful Honeyeater? I don't think either of those two, but not enough experience with them to rule them out.
Thanks Curtis, Lewin's have been in my garden ever since I lived here, they have lots of babies, I just love them. At some stage I've stopped taking photos of them, because I have so many. But juveniles are always special.
M-L
O, forgot, yes that's its little tongue.
M-L