irregular behaviour
Don't come birdwatching with me if you expect a checklist, tallies or exclamations of "lifer". This isn't stamp collecting or trainspotting. You might even find that I'm so engrossed with seeing what the bird is doing that I forget that big heavy thing is a camera.
See that dark blob. That's most likely a bundle of bark and spiderwebs. Scale? You can probably cup it one hand.
Earlier, before the heat got up, the bush was alive with LBBs ( little brown birds ), and birdsong — big and small. The calls of noisy friarbirds and grey shrike-thrushes went on; the little ones just stopped. So out here, the expectations of seeing anything at all was not high.
Here's the thing. Not everyone can clock off just because it's hot. That's what's going on here. The quick flit, the blur of a little bird was really only resolved by that stationary dark blob. What's notable is that the blob actually looked different from time to time. It was sinking in…two birds, dimorphic plumage, one species. Nesting behaviour!!
I don't make lists, so this isn't a list entry. One female leaden flycatcher, one male leaden flycatcher, both doing food drops by the short duration at the nest. Up there, right now is a nest, and in that nest is an unknown number of little mouths!!! Assume nothing. According to my sources, the leaden flycatcher is parasitised by a variety of cuckoos. They might be feeding someone else's baby.
Sorry, no photos of the "parents". Privacy, you know, or oversight…
irregular behaviour
Don't come birdwatching with me if you expect a checklist, tallies or exclamations of "lifer". This isn't stamp collecting or trainspotting. You might even find that I'm so engrossed with seeing what the bird is doing that I forget that big heavy thing is a camera.
See that dark blob. That's most likely a bundle of bark and spiderwebs. Scale? You can probably cup it one hand.
Earlier, before the heat got up, the bush was alive with LBBs ( little brown birds ), and birdsong — big and small. The calls of noisy friarbirds and grey shrike-thrushes went on; the little ones just stopped. So out here, the expectations of seeing anything at all was not high.
Here's the thing. Not everyone can clock off just because it's hot. That's what's going on here. The quick flit, the blur of a little bird was really only resolved by that stationary dark blob. What's notable is that the blob actually looked different from time to time. It was sinking in…two birds, dimorphic plumage, one species. Nesting behaviour!!
I don't make lists, so this isn't a list entry. One female leaden flycatcher, one male leaden flycatcher, both doing food drops by the short duration at the nest. Up there, right now is a nest, and in that nest is an unknown number of little mouths!!! Assume nothing. According to my sources, the leaden flycatcher is parasitised by a variety of cuckoos. They might be feeding someone else's baby.
Sorry, no photos of the "parents". Privacy, you know, or oversight…