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Juvenile Blue-Faced Honeyeater
This Blue-faced honeyeater wasn't too impressed with the rain. I have witnessed siblings feeding and watching over each other when the parents are away from them. The juvenile's face is olive-green, their bib is grey. They are very playful and even though they are known be aggressive, I have never seen this behavior in these birds. They are always chased by the more territorial birds. They forage in foliage, blossoms and fruit
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Welcome to my Blog I have always been interested in Fauna and Flora photography. Through my own eyes and my cameras I photograph our unique birds in their natural environments and in flight. I also photograph flowers and capture some of our amazing landscapes, waterfalls, valleys, sunsets and sunrises, beaches, rivers, and mountains. With my macro photography, I enjoy capturing some of our smallest, cutest, little creatures and flowers. Australia is really unique, with about one million different native species. More than 80% of the country’s flowering plants, mammals, reptiles and frogs are unique to Australia, along with most...
The Scarlet Honeyeater
The highlight of my photography year in 2019 was definitely spotting and capturing the Scarlet Honeyeater's in action everyday for about 4 months feeding from the various native flora that we planted many years ago on our 2 acre property. Scarlet Honeyeater is only about 10cm in size they are very very quick making them extremely difficult to see and capture on camera. I witnessed the hard working female who went about building her nest, lovingly looking after and feeding her chicks sometimes 2 or 3 at a time which was an all day effort due to being chased...
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