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On the weekend I was down in Sydney with my brother and
sister-in-law at Prestons, western Sydney.
On Thursday evening my sister-in-law saw a tiny
honeyeater-type bird feeding in her backyard on her agapanthus. She showed me
some video footage she shot which is very blurry with the animal constantly
moving and I had difficulty trying to ID it as a bird or an insect. When pausing
the animal certainly looks like a bird (very blurry unfortunately) and my
sister-in-law said she identified it as a bird and watched it from about a metre
away for about fifteen minutes.
The identification is of a tiny green bird with a bright
orange lower half of the body. The orange has black markings on it. The bird has
a very long curved black beak. The only possible ID I could come up with was a
hummingbird, it certainly didn't look like any Australian
honeyeater.
I have the video tape and am planning to put it onto my
computer and see if I can get a clearer view. Would anyone have an idea of the
hummingbird species this would be, if it is a hummingbird? or an alternate
possibility. I'll let people know how capturing the video footage to computer
works out.
Steve Gross
Orange NSW
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