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Flame Robin male 16/05/09
This was a first sighting for me and what a pleasent bird it was to see :-)
I,d spent the afternoon about 100 Metres away, observing Goldfinches, and was making my way back to the carpark.
Suddenly, the male flew out of a near-by thicket and settled down onto the ground, 9 or 10 metres in front of me. My first thought, after freezing dead still, was that it was a Scarlet Robin. Then the female flew down alongside and I knew it wasn,t.
Keeping in mind that I was walking through a Cow field, I had a careful look down and around for any fresh deposits of fertiliser, shall we say, and slowly sat down. The male was a bit stand-offish but the female was much more brazen and came over to about 4 metres away from me.
That wasn,t the end of it though. When I got back to the carpark, I saw another female sitting on one of the boundry rocks, right near the car !
Flame Robin male 16/05/09
This was a first sighting for me and what a pleasent bird it was to see :-)
I,d spent the afternoon about 100 Metres away, observing Goldfinches, and was making my way back to the carpark.
Suddenly, the male flew out of a near-by thicket and settled down onto the ground, 9 or 10 metres in front of me. My first thought, after freezing dead still, was that it was a Scarlet Robin. Then the female flew down alongside and I knew it wasn,t.
Keeping in mind that I was walking through a Cow field, I had a careful look down and around for any fresh deposits of fertiliser, shall we say, and slowly sat down. The male was a bit stand-offish but the female was much more brazen and came over to about 4 metres away from me.
That wasn,t the end of it though. When I got back to the carpark, I saw another female sitting on one of the boundry rocks, right near the car !