Hi team,
I am having trouble ID'ing a couple of the birds I found on the weekend in bush adjacent to Farnborough Beach at Yeppoon.
1. Honeyeater?
2. Any ideas?
3. Sunbird?
Thanks,
Andrew
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Andrew - Farnborough Beach, Yeppoon - wow it is many many years since I visited Yeppoon and Farnborough Beach (it will have changed significantly in that time.
#1 is a Brown Honeyeater, the general colours are right and the small yellow dot or triangle behind the eye is visible; they have a lovely song (if you heard it singing)
#2 is a young bird but I need my field guides to comment further
#3 I am leaning towrds another Brown HE, you can see some of the body on the LH side and it is not a Sunbird (Yellow), it also looks too big for a Sunbird
Peter
Hi Peter,
Thanks very much for your thoughts there, I've had another look at my guide and agree that 1 is a definite brown honeyeater, I had it as a possible but looking in old trusty Slater guide it's definately a Brown.
You reckon #3 might be too hey, I'll have a look at another photograph I got and check it out.
You'd enjoy the section I was in. It's the old beach track at the very end of Todd Avenue. It's all overgrown these days and I was in full camouflage and after photographing birds at the Barwells Ck beach lagoon (black cormorant, white-bellied sea-eagle, black kite, pied oystercatcher, silver gull, caspian tern) at the end of the track on the hightide, I came back and sat in the trees section in a little clearing and spotted these birds as well as peaceful dove, blue-winged kookaburra, double-barred finch, black-backed magpie, and red-tailed black-cockatoo. It was a good part of my birding expedition for the weekend around the Capricorn Coast.
Thanks,
Andrew.
#1 agree on Brown Honeyeater
#2 I think young Mistletoebird?
#3 Dusky Honeyeater
I agree #2 young mistletoe bird.
Thank-you very much Gentlemen,
I'll throw up another post with two more birds from yesterday. While being sure of most, your help confirming some is invaluable.
Thanks,
Andrew.