Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Little Little Shrike-Thrush little hungry


Caught this barely juvenile Little Shrike-Thrush (Colluricincla megarhyncha) demanding food from busy parents in Tyto this week. Was aware birds had a nest in the general area, but have decided not to haunt nest areas - except in exceptional cases.


Things rather quiet with many birds vanishing since the latest rain. So to continue with theme of hungry brown birds, here's a young Brush Cuckoo seen exhorting two frantic Brown-backed Honeyeaters to greater effort the other day.


And a holdover, female Figbird. The species has been notably successful lately chasing various beetles. Seems the Orioles, Yellow, and Olive-backed, face stiff competition.

Crocodile nest update: no sign croc; nest may have been near submersion very briefly. May not be able to follow it up if there's more heavy rain soon. 

6 comments:

  1. Nice Little Little Shrike Thrush.
    Nicely brown colour. Funny how these guys and Whistlers and Robins all go through a brown stage.
    Cheers
    Denis

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  2. Holy mackerel skies!

    Just arrived via a Japanese photog
    living in Mexico linking to my rag in Minnesota...Damn well worth the trip!

    If you don't mind, I'm including a link to your site at my rag (blog).

    You do believe in craft, don't you?
    I'd say that's a statement of fact.

    Cheers,

    Willie

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  3. Hi Denis: adds to naturasl protection, I guess. Though the noise some hungry youngsters make counts against them.

    Hi bandit: All ego-affirming praise sooo welcome. Seriously, the more pix I take the better I want them to be. But quickly find there are limits.

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  4. Roger that, TT.

    Although, if we were perfect, we wouldn't be here, now would we?

    I take a photo or two, but haven't much to work with (a pocketable Canon Elph 6 series borrowed from my son) Static images in broad daylight work alright, I suppose, for my illustrative purposes.

    Pigeons, crows, sparrows, starlings, in this winter urban climate. Wait for summer; (northern hemisphere) we have numerous lakes close in and right in town, the Mississippi River close at hand, good habitat and fodder for the genre that I blog in. I'll make an effort to match ya, at least a handful of times!

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  5. A challenge, eh? I need a wee spur in the haiku dept.

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  6. What luck! Some "sitting ducks" for the taking (pictures of)!

    And the odd blue goose (a genetically morphed snow goose)looking for handouts at a recent post.

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