Good Things Come In Small Packages
With my dislike for winter and the cold weather I tend to hibernate a bit, coming out only for necessities. This gives me an opportunity to go back through my photos for the year and to reflect on my many road trips. Some of these road trips are just for the day, others are overnight stays taking me to New South Wales and a lot of Queensland but still have so many more places to go.
I have posted images of the Male Scarlet Honey eater which was one of the biggest highlights on my 2019 photography year, so much so that we decided to have out first set of cork backed place-mats and coasters done featuring this tiny bird. It is only about 10cm in size so being able to spot it is very difficult, because they are also very quick.
One little bird I haven't mentioned much to date is the Wrens. In Australia we have the Superb Fairy-Wren the Variegated Fairy-Wren the Lovely Fairy-Wren the Blue-Breasted Fairy-Wren the Red-Winged Fairy-Wren the Purple-Crowned Fairy-Wren the White-Winged Fairy-Wren the Red-Backed Fairy-Wren the Southern Emu-Wren the Mallee Emu-Wren the Rufous-Crowned Emu-Wren
There is also 13 species in the Grasswren family
Above is a male Superb Fairy-Wren. I took this photo at Dubbo Zoo in New South Wales. Size: 13-14cm
This is a photo of a female Superb Fairy-Wren which I captured at the Dubbo Botanical Gardens Sept 2019
This photo is a male Red-Backed Fairy-Wren and I captured this at Petrie in Queensland Size; 10-13cm
and this pretty little one above is a female Red-Backed Fairy-Wren also captured at Petrie in Queensland
And above is a male Variegated Fairy-Wren that I was very fortunate to capture at Spicers Gap in Queensland just a short time ago. Size: 11-14.5cm
Hopefully on my future road trips to some of Australia's most beautiful rain forests and national parks that I will be able to capture more of these little wrens. As like with most bird species the males are colorful and the female is a fawny colour
Dedicated to all the Australian Fauna and Flora lost in the 2019/2020 bush fires