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Message: <blockquote data-quote="colonelboris" data-source="post: 1814549" data-attributes="member: 40117">Whereabouts are you visiting?I went for a walk over the Blue Gum Walk, which usually turns up some interesting birds.  Straight off were some Brown Thornbills.  Thornbills (for the uninitiated) seem to take the same ecological niche as the tits in Europe.  They often move in largeish flocks, sometimes mixed, and rummage through leaves in the same way.  A White-throated Treecreeper was there as well and a pair of Grey Fantails.Mostly the birds were the same as yesterday's report as the two sites are fairly close.  A few things worth elaborating on: there were at least seven Satin Bowerbirds and I was happy to see one that wasn't a juvenile.  I saw one adult female (blue eyes instead of brown) and an adult male in its very smart black and blue plumage.  A few White-browed Scrubwrens came very close and I even got a poor shot of a pair of Eastern Whipbirds.  While this was going on, I saw on the edge of my vision a movement high in a tree.  When I got the bins on it, it was an adult male Eastern Shrike-tit, a lifer.The weather was lovely again, which would have made the walk a good one, even if there were no birds.</blockquote>