Superb Fairy-wrens have been dancing at my windows. At first I saw a female at my bedroom window. I suspected she gathering cobwebs as nesting material. But during the day, I heard and saw a male in eclipse plumage approaching another window, where there were no obvious spider webs, and I concluded he was doing that most masculine of things - chasing away an imaginary rival (his own reflection).
Here he was looking at me, from the Dogwood tree just a few feet away. Whenever i looked away (or put down the camera) he would dart in and fly up against his own reflection.
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| Eclipse plumage of male Superb Fairy-wren. |
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| Brown Thornbill These little birds are wonderful at hiding behind a leaf or flower of the Sassafras tree. |
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| Lewin's Honeyeater This bird is a permanent resident and it loves to get nectar from my plants even Camellias, but especially the known nectar producers |
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| The elusive Eastern Spinebill This little bird moves very quickly. and so is quite hard to photograph. This was taken through my study window. |
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| another view of the Eastern Spinebill showing how long the beak is. |
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| These little green and grey lumps on the ground are Red-browed Finches They come in family groups, feeding together. If scared by something (anything) they all fly off together. These little birds are popular cage-birds and they have many names, Red-heads, Red Rumps, Firetails, etc. I prefer to see them flying free, like these guys. |
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