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common_nature2019-05-02 05:48 pm
rattfan) wrote in common_nature2019-05-02 05:48 pm
Black, white and yellow birdy
I'm trying to ID a small resident bird in my back yard, with help of my venerable A Field Guide to Australian Birds.
If someone can explain the posting of photos to Dreamwidth in clear terms to me, I will be infinitely grateful. I did ask DW themselves but could not follow the explanation.
In any case, I haven't managed to get a picture of this bird yet and it's so quick I don't like my chances. He lives in a largeish, bushy eucalypt and is probably either a White Cheeked Honeyeater or a New Holland Honeyeater, whose descriptions, range and habits are almost identical until you get to the tail. The second variety has a white tip in the tail. Right. Spot a white tip in the usually invisible tail of an 18 cm bird that likes to stay in his home tree. These two species are surely first cousins!
This is a street tree just over my fence directly opposite my chair on the veranda, so the bird and I have got fairly used to each other over the three months since I moved in. I placed a bowl of water on the ground near some of my plants and I know the doves have made use of that, but don't know if the little bush birds would. He screeched loudly at me for some days when I first appeared but has calmed down now so perhaps learned to recognise me. The previous tenant had a dog here so this would not have been safe ground.
In any case, I haven't managed to get a picture of this bird yet and it's so quick I don't like my chances. He lives in a largeish, bushy eucalypt and is probably either a White Cheeked Honeyeater or a New Holland Honeyeater, whose descriptions, range and habits are almost identical until you get to the tail. The second variety has a white tip in the tail. Right. Spot a white tip in the usually invisible tail of an 18 cm bird that likes to stay in his home tree. These two species are surely first cousins!
This is a street tree just over my fence directly opposite my chair on the veranda, so the bird and I have got fairly used to each other over the three months since I moved in. I placed a bowl of water on the ground near some of my plants and I know the doves have made use of that, but don't know if the little bush birds would. He screeched loudly at me for some days when I first appeared but has calmed down now so perhaps learned to recognise me. The previous tenant had a dog here so this would not have been safe ground.
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