Firstly I'd like to thank everyone who had an interest in this and those who
had enough interest to email me. Here are my (not so) final conclusions.
Variegated wren:
Not so much due to the overwhelming cries of "range!, range!" but a very
helpful email description of a young bird in transition to adult, I have to
conclude that what I saw was a juvenile Superb. Also, all other groups of
Supurb had a male in breeding plumage, and none of the groups I had down as
Variegated had an adult male. Thanx very much to Magaret for that one.
White-fronted Honeyeater. Again, a series of persuasive descriptions of
juvenile birds leads me to conclude that they were juvenile New Holland
Honeyeaters. There was quite a number of young birds of many species, so it
is more likely to have been a common NH and a most improbable (impossible?)
WF.
White-browed Babbler. While the bird was only 5 ft away, the obvservation
was too fleeting to argue solidly about. The option of a Bristle bird
doesn't fit either, so I flummoxed on this one.
Brown Booby. OK, I'm sticking to my guns on this one, with a rider. I need
to get down to a Gannet rookery and confirm it wasn't an immature Cape or
Australian, but having seen a Brown before I'm pretty confident.
What's that then? 1/2 out of 4?
Again, thanx to all those who helped. I had nearly as much fun working
these out as watching them at the time.
--
Eric Hocking "A closed mouth gathers no feet."
:: Melbourne, Australia ::
http://www.ozemail.com.au/~ehocking/
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