Chestnut-breasted Mannikin hangs out with a residential flock of Double-barred Finches. One finch doesn’t know what he is. (Kalbar, Qld – July 2021)
Another first-time shot…I spotted a bird in the pine tree. The black and white markings were different to birds I knew. So I zoomed in… But by the time I got the bird in the viewer, it flew off. I looked in the view to see what it was, and discovered it was a Blue-faced…
Yey!! At last, I got what I’ve been hunting for! For weeks I’ve been after a nice shot of these finches , the Chestnut-breasted Mannikin. Today, I went out and got a lot more than I bargained for!… Starting with the duck family in the pond, swallows getting mud from a mud puddle for their…
I set out early in the morning to hunt for wrens and finches. But one the way 3 Sulphur-crested cockatoos were drinking at the pond. I stopped and got a few shots before they flew off. 28 New Ducklings Learning to Swim I was about to head off, but then spotted a male Wood Duck…
This morning I went down to my usual spot on my hunt for wrens and finches again. I spotted a little Owl Face (Double-bar Finch) on a branch of a pine tree. The Owl-faced Finch is not what I was looking for as we have plenty of them in the birdbath at home. I had…
