Finally, a teaser. Found a rare pair of birds today. Stood for more than 30 minutes watching and hearing them whizzing above and about me in the open grasslands. Too fast and erratic in flight for any hope of a picture. Perhaps on the barbed wire tomorrow...
The Zebra Finches are beautiful! How does one stop on the side of the road to get photos and NOT have the traffic coming behind very upset?? Maybe your roads have less traffic than those around here.
ReplyDeleteFirst thought about your buzzing birds was "Swifts".
ReplyDeleteBut they won't land on your barbed wire.
Next guess - Rainbow Birds (Bee Eaters).
Failing that, I shall have to wait.
Cheers
Denis
Hi Mick: Unsealed back roads are the go. But on major roads I just pull right off seal if I'm really chasing something.
ReplyDeleteHi Denis: Zitting Cisticolas in hyperactive wing and vocal mode. Very difficult species to find these days - outside of a few 'hot spots' further south.
Sadly the only Zebra Finches we see are in cages! They are such gorgeous little things
ReplyDeleteG'day Tony,
ReplyDeleteI recall back in my seldom confessed to 'avicultural' days, the zeb was a very popular species for breeding mutations of all sorts of colour combinations, even an almost pure black. Like the budgie. Shame really, you can't get anything much more beautiful than the real deal.
I also recall reading an article on the top breeder of zebs in the US, including photographs of her set up - cages the size of shoe boxes throughout the house!
Regards,
Gouldiae.