Southern Emu-wren (Stipiturus malachurus)

Love the setting and a excellent capture...:clap:...Thanks for sharing my friend Tannin.:t:

Big 3 Mat? Ha!

I spent two full days at Cheyne Beach, admittedly at the wrong time of year - spring is the go, not high summer - and also made a couple of visits to Two People's Bay. Starting at dawn, long summer days, call it ~30 hours of looking for the big three.

Results:

No sighting of the Western Bristle bird, though I did hear one calling at TPB.
~ 8 second, poor-quality view of a Noisy Scrub-bird through foliage
~ 1 second view of a Western Whipbird.

That adds up to an average birdwatching efficiency rating of 0.3 seconds viewing time per hour searching, or ~3 seconds per day. No wonder people say the big three are hard!

Another birdwatcher there for a couple of days as the same time as me managed only the scrub-bird: a better view than mine but for only ~1.5 seconds as it ran across a path. For pictures, I'll need to go back in spring and allow maybe a week or 10 days. Perhaps I'll do that one day, but I think there are many more effective uses of my time for the next few years. Square-tailed Kite pictures, for example, completing my family set of crakes and rails, Northern Scrub-robin, grasswrens, Rufous-crowned Emu-wren, Purple-crowned Fairy-wren to complete my wren set, and so on. But one day.

So, Mat, no big 3 pictures in the pipeline, but I did get some nice other stuff at Cheyne Beach. I'll probably post some of it a little later.

Caterpillar? Yes, one of those long, thin ones (I don't know what they are called) with two or three pairs of legs at one end, then a long gap, and some more legs right at the back. I hope she enjoyed it.

This is a wonderful shot .I have spent hours trying to get one in the camers frame but no luck yet. They just seem to pop out and then they are gone before you can get tha camera up! Frustrating but great fun trying.

Well done.