crimson chat

As promised, here's the father of the young chat I showed you earlier. He was on his way to give him a breakfast top-up.

... and then... further along the fence Peter spotted the birds which were the main reason for this visit. The most gorgeous Crimson Chat. You'll have to wait for the showy male, this is his child!

I've been immersed in the 2nd folk club virtual concert which is coming on nicely.

The next Lifer at Bowra was this beautiful Crimson Chat.... but oh my how difficult it was to get a picture! The best part of 10 minutes chasing them up and down the track trying to find one out in the open as they found something really interesting to eat in the plants on the verge!! It was...

Female Chat battling with the wind!

These birds normally live in the outback, but maybe because of the drought they have moved south, so it was exciting to see this one 65 kilometres south-east of Adelaide!

A spectacular bird - shame I couldn't get closer. These birds are nomadic throughout central Australia. Another rare visitor to Birdforum.

A beautiful but elusive little bird, found mainly in the central deserts and grasslands of Australia. Highly irruptive and nomadic. This little fellow was one of about 200 chats roosting one very cold evening in low acacia bushes near Carrieton, in the Flinders Ranges, South Australia. The...

This attractive male Crimson Chat, as well as his duller partner have drawn quite a number of birders around Sydney lately when they were found in a park close to Sydney (in fact, next to a city rail station). Crimson Chat are normally found in the outback of Australia and this is truely a rare...

This adult male Crimson Chat was photographed collecting insects to feed to its young at the base of a spinifex grass clump. These birds are nomadic and appear at places irregularly, breed and leave almost as fast!