grey fantail

Fantails drink by tilting the head up, compared to the Beautiful Firetails which keep their heads down.

I think this was the only fantail I saw in the garden over the 12 days of my stay with Alex and June. They're such charmers these guys.

Always fun to watch the fantail waving his tail around, but they are so hard to photograph!

.... to fan his tail. I managed to catch this Grey Fantail just after he'd emerged from his bath. This was my first picture of this species, though we'd heard one in Brisbane nearly 3 weeks before

Just back after the Fleurieu Folk Festival: we had one gig, Adrienne judged a songwriting competition, and I helped run an open tunings guitar workshop - great fun!

Grey Fantail and Willy Wagtail are two similar behaving birds and probably the most annoying for other birds, as they think they are the owners of the entire birds' universe and must protect it from other species. Best thing about them is that every time you see one you know that there is...

The bird found here is a different race to those found on the mainland of Australia.

This one kept fluttering its wings piteously!

Grey Fantail

Stayed still just long enough to offer quite a cute little pose