Striated Thornbill

Oh my goodness, what a comedy (not a very funny one) of errors this evening has been.

I’ve been away for a couple of days, for the first time in over a year. It was amazing to drive for more than a few minutes, leaving my dogs with a couple of wonderful house-sitters (thank you both so much).

I’d hoped to do a lot of photography on Phillip Island, cruising around my favourite stretch of coastal track but that didn’t happen. Instead it poured with rain and blew a gale. I did manage to photograph some magpies playing in the wind and a couple of bedraggled Galahs. I’d planned to share the wet and windy images tonight but my computer had different ideas and decided it was going to lose those images for me. And my internet is running at between 0.0 and 0.5Mbps which makes searching for answers virtually impossible. It might make sharing this post impossible too! The NBN becomes inevitable here in a few days, I’ve been putting it off with much dread as my pit is so far from my house that I have no confidence that it will work.

Anyways, back to the beautiful little Striated Thornbill. I adore thornbills and shake my head at the memory of the time I thought I should be able to record them as ‘thornbill sp’ for the Atlas of Australian Birds. Now I can hardly believe that I used to find them difficult to tell apart. I wrote a post about it a while ago: Striated vs Brown Thornbills

This tiny bird visited my birdbath the other day. I was sitting outside with a friend (hi Carol!) and we were treated to about a dozen species visiting the water. The lighting was pretty rotten but the birds were gorgeous. I tried to eliminate some of the worst distractions in this shot, something I rarely do (and I’m very poor at), I hope I haven’t spoiled it.

Take care out there, happy birding, Kim

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