spotted pardalote

This little beauty hopped onto a branch right in front of me today.

I spent 3 hours sitting alongside a muddy puddle in the woodland, and got 3 visitors for my efforts! This is the less common Pardalote.

As a change from uploading photos of Texan birds, here are 3 shots of local birds taken on a walk near Adelaide this morning. As usual, the Spotted Pardalote is indifferent to people and is a photographer's dream!

Caught, ringed, measured, released unharmed as part of an ongoing study.

It has been a long long time since my last post. Would like to say hello to everyone. Male Spotted Pardalote is carrying nesting material to a tree hollow. Photo taken with an old M42 55mm MF lens and a shutter cable.

Caught, Banded and released as part of a research project

The Spotted Pardalote is not as common as the Striated Pardalote, but it is very confiding, and will potter around on branches a few feet away without a concern. This one posed beautifully in the sun for me - a magic moment!

Been trying to get a good shot of these birds for ages. They mainly stick to the canopy feeding off lerp on eucalyptus leaves. This one was on a rather low tree and let me get very close :)

Hi all..this Spotted Pardalote juvie was with the Weebill that I posted yesterday, I was lucky enough to get fairly close to it as well.....I have put the results of the survey to the Shire and 'Linda' liked this one, I have only photographed them twice before so I'm very happy with this...

Adult male, nominate race. A real pleasure to watch this colourful bundle of energy is like a whirlwind as it hurries through the canopy. A great delight to have captured one or two shots of this gorgeous species

Taken a while back but this was the first sighting on our farm and luckily had the camera so thought I'd share.

This bird comes for a drink every day but it is very quick and it is hard to get a good shot in the time available. I miss the male every time ..but one day!

Yet another waiting for a drink. It is dry this time of year.