Rufous Fantail

["Philip Veerman" <>]

Your mystery bird a week or so ago - little smaller than a Magpie-Lark, generally black/very dk grey above, white below, with some white in the wings, especially a notable strip at the top of the wing; solid bill. It was fairly still when perched, and moved from branch to branch before flying off. among likely locals, raises the likely answer of White-winged Triller.

 

Philip

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Barbara Preston [
Sent: Wednesday, 25 March 2015 12:47 PM
To: Canberra birds
Subject: [canberrabirds] Rufous Fantail

Sitting at my desk working away, and then a lovely display by a Rufous Fantail just outside the window in the spindly hakea ... first I remember seeing in the garden

Lots of lovely small birds around – Grey Fantails, Eastern Spinebills, various Thornbills, Wb Scrub Wrens, Spotted Pardalotes, lots of Fairy Wrens ... Plus usual corvids, rosellas, and Gang Gangs recently .

Did have a mystery bird a week or so ago - little smaller than a Magpie-Lark, generally black/very dk grey above, white below, with some white in the wings, especially a notable strip at the top of the wing; solid bill. It was fairly still when perched, and moved from branch to branch before flying off. I had hoped to get another better look ...

 

 

 

 

 

Barbara Preston

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