These lovely little birds are often curious and will come and investigate you when you walk into their territory. This is the Western Australian race preissi

"Studio Point" - Sattal - India

Mandal - Uttarakhand - India

The New Zealand fantail (Rhipidura fuliginosa) is a small insectivorous bird that has been able to adapt very well to an environment greatly altered by humans. I see this delightful bird most days in my backyard flitting around from tree to tree then moving on.

Yellow bellied fantail, Thailand

I will give my friends a break after this one! The male is so much harder for me to capture and I was excited about this shot.

Rhipidura aureola

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Karandeniya, Sri Lanka

Bird's Teardrops || Estas Tonne feat. Peia || Ashland, Oregon 2018

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Does what it says on the tin - grey and fans its tail

Fern Glade, Tasmania

I'm quite happy that I got this shot as I have been trying to get photos of the Rufous Fantail for quite some time but never had the opportunity. They are a beautiful little bird probably a bit smaller than a house sparrow with a gorgeous fan tail. I have found them difficult to get photos of as they rarely sit still, rarely in good light and rarely in an area to get a clean shot. It was quite by chance that this guy was so caught up in chasing his dinner of small insects that he was quite oblivious to my friend and my presence. However, the big draw back was that is was in very dark undergrowth, but still flitted about a lot and with quite sudden movements and thus the AFing was difficult as was the balance of shutter speed and ISO.

Unfortunately, very high ISO exacerbated by the fact I had auto ISO set to a maximum ISO6400 so, the shots were underexposed by about 1.5 stops, meaning an ISO of about 18,000 or so.

Probably an escapee but a regular visitor to Warnham Nature Reserve.

Fantail

Parent bird protecting its hungry nestling that is crying out for food

A grey fantail taken in the Valley Lake Conservation area in Mount Gambier. I was surprised at the colour on the front of it that wasn't as grey as I was expecting.

Many thanks for your visits, kind comments and faves, very much appreciated.

Always inquisitive, these will come and investigate you as soon as you come into their territory

Burnie, Tasmania

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Rhipidura albiscapa. Dandenong Ranges National Park. I put another one of these two up some time ago, was going to post this one the next day but got sidetracked and it didn't happen...

senior moment no doubt. I'll be posting a lot of photos from this years Pride March, in batches as I can clean them up, but lest my birding flickr-friends roll their eyes I'll precede each batch with a bird.