Hello everyone,
Have posted some photos of a adult bird and its young, but don't know what type of bird it is, thought maybe a fantail, but am not sure, I have not seen these birds on our place before, but we have heaps of them this year, when the sunlight is on their backs , the colour is almost a blue grey, and the adults chest feathers are almost bronze, they are quite striking, am hoping someone can tell me what they are. The top photo is a baby and bottom photo is the adult. Many thanks.
White browed Woodswallow
Shorty......Canon gear
Canberra
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rawshorty/
the 1st pic is a female and the 2nd a male; the juvenile is a grey, mottled and streaked buff colouration; I will post a pic over the weekend
Peter
Thank you so much, I have never seen these birds here before, we live on the land and have the normal swallows nesting under our verandah as they do, but these white browed ones seem to be quite a lot bigger than the ones under the verandah, maybe the male one was courting the female as he was feeding it , so I thought it must have been a young one , we seem to have heaps of these swallows living around our dam which is surrounded by trees ,will love to see your photo of the young ones, I will keep an eye out to see if they have a nest somewhere, thank you for your time and trouble,
J.M.Stephens.
In case Peter gets too busy shooting the birds, here is a juvenile
Shorty......Canon gear
Canberra
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rawshorty/
How cute is that, , haven't seen any of those yet, Hope Peter is using a camera to shoot the birds with !!! Thanks for your time and help.
J.M.Stephens.
Southern skies, they often nest in tree forks, hollow stumps & posts. This spring there was a report of white-browed woodswallows nesting in the top of a rain guage at Tumby Bay in SA, I think it was. They often breed in large congregations after good rains when insects are plentiful.
thank you for the reply, fancy thse birds nesting in a rain gauge, good place as any I suppose, I have wandered around and havent seen any nests at all, but maybe looking in the wrong place after what you said here, I will keep looking, Thanks.
J.M.Stephens.