Bird of the Week: 8th October - LBB

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Holly
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Bird of the Week: 8th October - LBB

Well last week was amazing! This week's theme is 'LBB' - otherwise known as Little Brown Birds (or buggers!). They are those extra challenging birds - the ones that move so quickly and frustrate birdwatchers and photographers alike...

Araminta
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Three little Brown Thornbills, all taken in my garden. Enjoy.

M-L

Holly
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LOVE that last one!

Owen1
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Flame Robin (female) that decided that my garden was a good place to stop over on end of winter migration. The background is a wooden fence in case you wondered.

Cheers, Owen.

Sandgroper
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Due to my ignorance I call them all sparrows

timmo
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Well, you got half of them right then, sandgroper! smiley

The birds in picture 1,2,3 and 5 are sparrows, 

The birds in 4 are welcome swallows (I think, or maybe tree/fairy martins)

The last 3 look like yellow-rumped thornbills to me.

Cheers
Tim
Brisbane

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timmo wrote:

Well, you got half of them right then, sandgroper! smiley

The birds in picture 1,2,3 and 5 are sparrows, 

The birds in 4 are welcome swallows (I think, or maybe tree/fairy martins)

The last 3 look like yellow-rumped thornbills to me.

Thanks for the assistance
Araminta
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One more Brown Thornbill, I do have so many of them in my garden. My second favourite little bird, after the Wrens wink

M-L

Nahar
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I am really enjoying this Holly. Difficult topic this time !!

M-L : What a superb collection (as always)!!  #3 in the first lot is just superb.

Owen - Lovely pose of that Robin.

I am adding a few from my collection (with various shades of brown):

Birdgirl2009
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Lovely photos already. Your thornbills are gorgeous Araminta. I have a female superb fairy-wren, a golden-headed cisticola and a yellow-faced honeyeater

Araminta
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Two little brown Baby Wood Ducks, they just crossed the road.

M-L

Nahar
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So cute M-L !! I am going back and back again - great composition relaying the protection a mother provides.

WendyK
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Western Gerygone and Brown Honeyeater

Wendy
Mandurah, WA
Peel-Yalgorup System Ramsar Site

http://www.flickr.com/photos/girlinoz/

Headsie
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A juv Hooded robin in flight.

kathiemt
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Some awesome shots and Mary-Louise, how do you top that? laugh  Course I know it's not a competition but such beautiful close ups are every photographer/bird watcher's dream I'm sure. I'll have to go explore my own library to see what I can come up with.  Great to see such a collection of brown birds. Love the flight one Headsie - where were you to be above a bird in flight?

Kathiemt
Selby, Victoria
 

kathiemt
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I've got lots of BBBs (big brown birds) but have found some LBBs in my library.

This is probably my favourite of the Eastern Spinebills I've taken.

And some singing wrens

And the young Eastern whipbird I saw last week

Kathiemt
Selby, Victoria
 

Karlbob
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Once of my favourites from recent times. Female Golden Whistler.  

Sunshine Coast, Queensland.

Headsie
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Another of the juvie hooded robin.

Kathiemt I was above him for the flight shot as he was flying around me about 2 feet off the ground.

Headsie
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Superb shot M-L, is this a inland thornbill. He has a different color eye to the brown thornbills.

kathiemt
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How cool was that Headsie!

Kathiemt
Selby, Victoria
 

Araminta
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Nice photos Kathie, I love the Eastern Spinebill. (Yet waiting for mine to turn up)

Headsie, a perfect photo of this tiny Hooded Robin, just a gorgeous bird.

(& I just consulted Owen about the Thornbill, you did put doubts in my head, but he confirmed it is another Brown Thornbill)

M-L

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it's only one,but here's a supposedly "Grey" Fantail

Araminta
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That is very funny Nathan, I was thinking of posting a grey Fantail , because as you can see in my photo, when they are juvenile they are " brown Grey Fantails"wink

M-L

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Headsie wrote:

Superb shot M-L, is this a inland thornbill. He has a different color eye to the brown thornbills.

Headsie, it has to be a young Brown Thornbill because it was taken in M-L's garden which is not anywhere near the range of the Inland. Also, the markings are wrong smiley

Cheers, Owen.

Melboracis
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Another LBB in brisbane - no idea what it is!?

Steve

Headsie
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Hi Owen

I went and checked my book and it was the chestnut rumpted thornbill I was thinking of.

This is the thornbill I was talking about, it has the grey eye.

Sorry for the confusion.

Araminta
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Thanks Headsie, it's a Striated Thornbill. (I hope my good friend Owen will confirm that. But if it's not, he will tell us.)

M-L

Owen1
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It's not a Striated Thornbill either. Young Brown Thornbill wink

Cheers, Owen.

Araminta
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Thanks Owen, my initial ID was right. I am so glad I can always count on you to help.

M-L

Karen
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Who would have thought that little brown bird pics could be so lovely!  Well done everyone.

Karen
Brisbane southside.

kathiemt
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Got another the other day of an Eastern Spinebill.

Kathiemt
Selby, Victoria
 

birdie
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What a wonderful collection of LBBs and a few that arent LBBs cheeky  I used to find them just too hard , but these days I see them as a challenge.

A brown thornbill I took a while ago

Sunshine Coast Queensland

kathiemt
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I'm the same, I love the challenge too.  Great shot Birdie.

Kathiemt
Selby, Victoria
 

birdie
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Thanks Kathie...unfortunately as I get older my eyes are not up to the challenge ... now if someone could invent a pair of spectacles with an auto zoom controlled by rapid blinking or something .... or some kind of infa red system that detects shade of brown  and heat amongst the foliage ..... I'd be in that for sure lol  wink

Sunshine Coast Queensland

clif2
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Here are a few that I found for this theme.






Regards

               Shane

clif2
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Here are some I found for this theme.






Regards

               Shane

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