Scarlet Honeyeater

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Meave
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Scarlet Honeyeater

Just the Scarlet Honeyeater from the garden at home

Woko
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That would surely give you bragging rights, meave - at least for a while!

Araminta
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What a glorious photo!!!What kind of tree is it?

M-L

Meave
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Sorry Araminta, put the answer on the wrong one - the photos on this one didn't arrive as they were told to. I put separate ones in (with some others of Bob's favourite photos). Purple paperbark (melaleuca virifolia but I may have the spelling wrong).

Meave

GeorgeP
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Fantastic image, Meave. Some of these visited our local park last year but were difficult to photograph.

Cheers,

George
Melbourne, VIC

Owen1
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Incredible shot Meave. I have never seen one and they are notoriously hard to photograph.
Some were reported in the hundred acres reserve in Warrandyte last year but try as we might we couldn't find a single one.
I am still hoping to see one some day and well done to you!

Cheers, Owen.

cathshane

Brilliant shot Meave.

Meave
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Thanks Owen - yes it is a good shot, Bob takes the pictures. We are lucky because they love the paperbark in the backyard, and seem very casual about us approaching, maybe because the tree is quite leafy and they feel safe. Bob's camera with his new lens can pick them up even quite high in the tree too. It is the best bird attractant we have, though the grevillias are also popular, mainly with the bigger birds (blue-faced honeyeaters, friarbirds, lorikeets etc).

Meave

birdie
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Just beautiful Meave..... would so love to have a shot at one of these ...thank heavens for Melaleucas :')

Sunshine Coast Queensland

timmo
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Beautiful shot, Meave.
I used to see these guys, and heaps of other nectar feeders out the window at my last job, when the Blue quandong was in flower.

Cheers
Tim
Brisbane

Tassie

Beautiful!!

Qyn
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What a gorgeously coloured bird - great photo too! Thanks for sharing

Alison
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jaytee
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Gosh! I would be delighted to see such an amazingly brightly coloured bird, lovely photo - guess we don't have them around here.

Jeanne
Brisbane QLD

Woko
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If you haven't seen one in Brisbane, jaytee, it's probably due to habitat destruction. Brisbane is certainly part of their range. I believe they wander about a lot mainly feeding on flowering trees so if you can plant what grows naturally in your area you may eventually see them at your place. Unfortunately, it takes a few seconds to get rid of a native tree but years to grow one to the stage where it'll provide food for scarlet honeyeaters. No wonder the developers seem to be in front!

mrtattoo
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wonderful shot, i havent seen a scarlet b4.......

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I have seen a glimpse if them up here when birding with Andy ...but it was her younger eyes not mine that ID's them! I think you just have to be lucky and find out where they have been seen. they are so tiny and fast...they also have a harsher call I have read so maybe listening to their calls will help in the field to ID them? I too am still waiting to see one that I can capture on film..good luck Jeanne

Sunshine Coast Queensland

timmo
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Jaytee,
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They are definitely around in Brisbane, though it may depend where you are. They are pretty small and often feed high up in trees, on the flowers of Eucalypts and Blue Quandongs for example, so it can be hard to see the colouring.
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I saw them a few times out at Pullenvale in the tree outside my old 2nd floor office. I have also seen them at Oxley Creek Common in the Eucalypts, but I needed binoculars.

Cheers
Tim
Brisbane

hollylister78
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To be listed as "common", what an insult to his beauty ;-)How lovely to have them in your backyard!!

Meave
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The photo of the scarlet honeyeater was taken in our garden in Kingston, Logan City - just south of Brisbane. The really love the melaleuca in the back garden, and they are here every late winter/early spring. The also like the grevillia (forgive my spelling please). Beaautiful birds.

Meave

Birdgirl2009
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You are so lucky to have such a stunning bird in your backyard. Thanks for sharing

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