help with id please!

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oconnore51
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help with id please!

I have two birds that i am unsure of, both small in Northern Sydney weedy bushy area.

a small bird, slightly yellow or cream under parts and an orangey bill.  I thought it was a female Fairy Wren but it was smaller and the tail was down.  Can anyone point me in the right direction?

And another small bird with a multi note song, dark around the head maybe grey, but with white eyebrow stripe or face stripe..Light underparts.  Flying in the open, smaller than a scrub wren. 

Thank you

WhistlingDuck

Im not much good at ID unless I see a photo - and not much better then!. First one possibly something like a brown gerygone or yellow thornbill or female golden whistler or a pardalotte. Second one - nothing comes to mind other than yellow faced HE, but that has yellow not white matkings. 

oconnore51
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Thanks for your help WD, i will have to go there and try again for photos, they were very quick little birds, but it was an overcast day so may have better luck next time.

elizabeth

oconnore51
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Thanks for your help WD, i will have to go there and try again for photos, they were very quick little birds, but it was an overcast day so may have better luck next time.

I did see a fair number of birds that i did recognise, pardalote, Lewins HE, yellow Robin, so it won't be a hardship to return!

elizabeth

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