7 Wotsits from this morning (all Canberra)
All taken within one hour
yesterday morning. 1 and 6 were from my street, male koel, and part of
tail of female koel in depths of a prunus tree. Remainder all from
Campbell Park.
2 – male Leaden
Flycatcher. 3 is quite unfair and shows the ambiguity that can so easily
arise in snaps of common birds. A female Rufous Whistler was evicting a
Jacky Winter from its perch. Philip did well to essay ‘Jacky Winter’.
Here are both birds just before the agonism (a useful noun created from ‘agonistic’,
a word much favoured by biologists). When you get used to the word, you
will see agonisms everywhere.
4 – Dollarbird. 5 –
A Wood Duck (m). 7 - a White=faced Heron peers down from its nest.
