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A honey eater I think. Taken at Coolendel.



Peter Mc

Someone will probably beat me to this while i'm typing this in

It's a male Eastern Spinebill of the group Long-Billed Honeyeaters so i guess that makes your guess spot on.

I am surprised at just how many varieties of honeyeater Australia has. My book of Aussie birds lists quite a few more than most other species.

He looks cute next to those two flowers, that i assume he was feeding on.

Hi Steve

Thanks for that. I love these Honey eaters. I think they are my favourite bird but they dont stay around long for photos. I left the folage in rather than a tight crop to give it a bit more context.

Regs

Peter Mc

nice shot,

the crop works for me because you can see the birds habitat around it.
Well done.

Steve

Very nice Peter and well caught

Hi Peter, this is a cool bird shot, i never take notice of birds of the feathered variety a lot as i know they are hard to sometimes capture let alone know what they are so well done.

Thanks for that. I guess the beauty of digital is that the 27 shots I took to get this one are not seen. I realised later that I had set the ISO to 1000 (for some lightning a few nights before) so it is a tadd grainy.

NSW birds seem very edgy and are hard to capture. I was working in QLD last week and on an early morning walk noticed the QLD birds seem more friendly and less edgy. Is it the sun, I wonder?

Peter Mc

Queenslanders are generally friendlier than those south of the border.

(Except SE QLD which is full of ex-pat Victorians and proven daily by their inability to correctly use indicators or roundabouts especially the two lane variety. Yes i have had issues with them previoulsy.)