Help with ID please - Callum Brae - 2

["Philip Veerman" <>]

Will my comment add anything useful?

 

Mark is correct and knows it. You were correct and needed a hint. The difference is many years of experience. I think that shows something: That the observer's impression (provided they go for the most likely) is usually correct. As in Margaret named both species. I'd say though that the White-plumed Honeyeater shows as overly yellow in that photo.

 

Philip

 

-----Original Message-----From: Mark Clayton [ Sent: Sunday, 30 January 2011 5:22 PM
To: 'Margaret Leggoe';      Subject: RE: [canberrabirds] Help with ID please - Callum Brae - 2

Margaret,

 

Your first lot of photographs are of a White-plumed Honeyeater and the ones shown on this set a young White-winged Trillers.

 

Mark

 

From: Margaret Leggoe [ Sent: Sunday, 30 January 2011 4:52 PM     To:
Subject: [canberrabirds] Help with ID please - Callum Brae - 2

 

Same place, same time (within 1½ hours) as the previous mailing.  Hint – a male white winged triller was photographed in a tree only a few metres away from this one.  Note what looks like a patch of dried blood on the bird’s chest.  I blew it up, and it really does look as though it was clawed by something.

Thank you again,

Margaret Leggoe

 

PS.  The greatest difficulty I had this morning was deciding which bird to point my lens at.  The tree tops were alive with pardalotes, thornbills, varied sittellas, willie wagtails, eastern rosellas, red-rumped parrots, and lower down the fairy wrens and dusky woodswallows.  And one diamond firetail.