brown-headed honeyeater

Nice perch on a twig!

Another new honeyeater for me has, really, to also be one of the cutest of all I think - this little Brown-headed Honeyeater. Another of the species I fell in love with out there. Sadly it doesn't seem to be that common, as we only appear to have one or two pictures uploaded each year.

This is the ssp pallidiceps

Back in Sydney after 12 years in Hong Kong and it is good to back amongst the honeyeaters in the Australian bushland. This Brown-headed has not been often seen by me and this is only my second photograph.

Yet another from 'The Bird Bath'... And there's plenty more!

Another from the bird bath. We saw a total of 17 species come to the bath or the patio area.

Have cropped this a wee bit. Quite pleased with the Tamron 150-600 considering how cheap it is.

Quite chuffed to get this - these birds are increasingly rare in the Adelaide Hills. My final three posts for a few weeks. On Monday we are off to Ethiopia with Birdfinders UK. If I can return with some photos to match those of Volker, I shall be very happy! See you in a month.

This little fellow was busy feeding in a profusely flowering bottlebrush and wouldn't keep still for long.

Taken in the Mallee area of Victoria

Delightful as ever, the Brown-headed Honeyeater. The last one I posted (at http://www.birdforum.net/pp_gallery/showphoto.php/photo/67478/sort/1/cat/500/page/2 ) was at the eastern end of the state. This one was in drier habitat towards the western end of Victoria. Here, they were less common...

One of my very favourite honeyeaters. These are, at present, the most common honeyeater in the ironbark. Always cheery, always moving, but never frenetic the way that some honeyeaters are. A bird with a great deal of charm.