I headed for there exclusively to take some white-plumed HE's photography as it is brilliantly sunny that day. However, capturing fuscous HE was just unexpected until I found some subtle differences and I was given an extraordinary bonus.
I seemed to hear white-naped HE but did not pay for attention as I was busy photoing these two Lichenostomus. I have not got any idea of where to have a close-up watch to white-naped HE around Lake Ginnindera.
As I will leave Australia within a couple of months, I would like to collect these lovely birds' sighting as much as I can. Their shape and behaviour remind me of playful and welcomed bulbul in Asia.
Sichen Wan wrote:
Two Lichenostomus, white-plumed HE and fuscous HE were seen along the foreshore of Macdermott Pl in Ginnindera. There maybe a stable inhabitation of ehite-plumed HE and they frequented the car parking and picnic precinct，not
sure of that for fuscous HE.
I’ve seen White-plumed Honeyeaters there for 20 years or so but never Fuscous Honeyeaters. I’ve rarely seen the latter in Canberra.
John Layton
Holt
