It's about time I wrote something a bit more cheerful, don't you think? So I'm sharing a couple of photos of birds who frequent Crumbleton Manor's garden.
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| Flame Robin |
Firstly, it took ages to identify this little one - a Flame Robin. Characteristically they stand quite upright and hold their wings below the level of their tail.
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| Blue Wren |
We have gorgeous little Blue Wrens visit us most mornings, a couple of males and several females along with some juveniles. They roost and hide in a very large bush which is possibly a quince.
The list of local birds that I've seen visit us in the first four weeks now stands as follows:
- Laughing Kookaburra
- Blue Wren
- Grey Butcherbird
- Blue Winged Rosella
- Magpie
- Grey Cuckoo Shrike
- Forest Raven
- Sulpher Crested Cockatoo
- Tasmanian Thornbill
- Swift
- Eagle (not sure which)
- House Sparrow
- Common Starling
- Yellow-tipped Pardalote
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| Yellow-tipped Pardalote |
My photo of the Yellow-tipped Pardalote is unfortunately very blurry - they move too quickly!According to Wikipedia, The
yellow-tipped pardalote (subspecies
striatus) is found mainly in
Tasmania, but crosses the 200 miles of
Bass Strait to the mainland each winter in a migration. That's quite a distance for such a small bird! But when I think about it, we migrated a great distance too, from Blue Mountains NSW to Northern Tasmania. And we'll be wintering here.
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