Hi Roger
Sorry, but your photos look more like Rufous Songlark to me, due to bill
shape, unstreaked breast, and tail shape - others may correct me....
Singing Bushlarks look more like finches or sparrows.
Regards
Frank
> Hi All
>
> I was out on Kelly's Road this morning (just the other side of
> Williamsdale )
> and watched several of these guys (gals, maybe) for some time.
>
>
>
> They were possibly browner, but not a lot browner, than that, bright blue
> sky messes up the colour in my camera.
> Very vocal whether perched on a wire, fossiking in a bush or flying
> rapidly from one to another.
> I thought initially that they were Skylarks but their flight was mostly
> horizontal and they never "ascended" the way Skylarks do.
> They seemed to have several songs (one Skylark like).
> Singing Bushlarks being the flavour of the week i guess that is what they
> were,
> though another possibility might be Rufous Songlark ?
>
> roger curnow
>
>
>
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