Chestnut-rumped alright Mark. You're right out of range to even consider Shy,
but the light eye is indicative as is the slightly dirty look to the breast
background colour and supercilium.
Nice photos.
Allan Richardson
Morisset
On 16/09/2013, at 8:08 PM, Mark and Amanda Young wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I saw this bird this morning at Wattamolla in the Royal National Park, but
> not sure on it's exact ID. I'm fairly certain that it's a Heathwren, but
> I've not seen any sort of Heathwren before, so it's a little hard for me to
> be sure on this.
>
> Using Morcombes as my guide, and Google, the bird looks more like a
> Chestnut-rumped Heathwren, except in the colour of the eye and the strong
> supercillium. It doesn't have the strong white markings in the primaries for
> a SH, but it does have some white colour, which doesn't seem to be in any
> images I've seen of CRH's.
>
>
>
> When I saw it, the bird was by itself in sparse vegetation, as you can tell
> from the photos.
>
>
>
> Link to Photo 1: http://bit.ly/14V4M7u
>
> Link to Photo 2: http://bit.ly/168ejC4
>
>
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Mark
>
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