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...
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Three little Brown Thornbills, all taken in my garden. Enjoy.
M-L
LOVE that last one!
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.
Due to my ignorance I call them all sparrows
Well, you got half of them right then, sandgroper!
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
One more Brown Thornbill, I do have so many of them in my garden. My second favourite little bird, after the Wrens
M-L
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):
Lovely photos already. Your thornbills are gorgeous Araminta. I have a female superb fairy-wren, a golden-headed cisticola and a yellow-faced honeyeater
Two little brown Baby Wood Ducks, they just crossed the road.
M-L
So cute M-L !! I am going back and back again - great composition relaying the protection a mother provides.
Western Gerygone and Brown Honeyeater
Wendy
Mandurah, WA
Peel-Yalgorup System Ramsar Site
http://www.flickr.com/photos/girlinoz/
A juv Hooded robin in flight.
Some awesome shots and Mary-Louise, how do you top that? 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
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
Once of my favourites from recent times. Female Golden Whistler.
Sunshine Coast, Queensland.
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.
Superb shot M-L, is this a inland thornbill. He has a different color eye to the brown thornbills.
How cool was that Headsie!
Kathiemt
Selby, Victoria
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
it's only one,but here's a supposedly "Grey" Fantail
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"
M-L
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
Cheers, Owen.
Another LBB in brisbane - no idea what it is!?
Steve
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.
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
It's not a Striated Thornbill either. Young Brown Thornbill
Cheers, Owen.
Thanks Owen, my initial ID was right. I am so glad I can always count on you to help.
M-L
Who would have thought that little brown bird pics could be so lovely! Well done everyone.
Karen
Brisbane southside.
Got another the other day of an Eastern Spinebill.
Kathiemt
Selby, Victoria
What a wonderful collection of LBBs and a few that arent LBBs 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
I'm the same, I love the challenge too. Great shot Birdie.
Kathiemt
Selby, Victoria
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
Sunshine Coast Queensland
Here are a few that I found for this theme.
Regards
Shane
Here are some I found for this theme.
Regards
Shane