Silvereye
Here’s a Silvereye visiting Bartley’s Block, Chiltern.
Here’s a Silvereye visiting Bartley’s Block, Chiltern.
The White-browed Babblers that I saw over Easter in the Chiltern-Mt Pilot National Park spent most of their time digging around in the leaf litter. This one popped up onto a branch, giving me a nice, clear view.
The Friarbirds are comparatively large honeyeaters with few feathers, if any, on their heads. There were two species of Friarbird at the Chiltern-Mt Pilot National Park over Easter: the smaller Little Friarbird, and the larger Noisy Friarbird.
The red wattlebird is one of the loudest birds in the box-ironbark country. I caught this one mid-call at Killawara, the northern section of the Warby-Ovens National Park.
The new $5 note includes an oddly coloured Eastern Spinebill (read about it on the Reserve Bank’s web site). Here are a couple of photos of Eastern Spinebills at Bartley’s Block, Chiltern. I think one of them is having a laugh 🙂
Here are some more photos from March/April in the Chiltern-Mt Pilot National Park. I saw Yellow-tufted Honeyeaters at Bartley’s Block, Lappin’s Dam, along Donchi Hill Road and Bullant Track.
The parrots and rosellas are more patient than the little honeyeaters. They perch in the trees by the dam and sit there for some time before coming in for a drink. Once again these photos are from Lappin’s Dam, Chiltern.
A good number of the photos I took over Easter were at Lappin’s Dam, in the north-west of the Chiltern-Mt Pilot National Park. There was not much water in the dam, but more than most of the other bush dams in the area.
I saw Dusky Woodswallows numerous times as I drove along Donchi Hill Road, north-west of Chiltern.
When I saw this Willie Wagtail sitting on a barbed wire fence I had to stop and take a photo.