Showing posts with label Spectacled Monarch (Symposiarchus trivirgatus). Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spectacled Monarch (Symposiarchus trivirgatus). Show all posts

Sunday, March 15, 2015

Falling back on other Wallaman outings

Hopped up Wallaman Falls road today on scent of Musky Rat-kangaroo (an atypically diurnal marsupial). Sniffed out a couple of animals, but no pictures. The birds wouldn't front the camera either. So, some from other outings:

Brown Gerygone (Gerygone mouki), usually notable active and noisy: quiet today.

Spectacled Monarch (Symposiarchus trivirgatus), immature: several heard in lawyer vine thickets.

Tooth-billed Catbird (Scenopoeetes dentirostris), gone quiet at display areas lately.

Large-billed Scrubwren (Sericornis magnirostra), active and chatty all over the place.

Wompoo Fruit-Dove (Ptilinopus magnificus), more cooing than wollack-a-wooing.

Sunday, July 20, 2014

Fantail, Monarch flit into sharp focus

Rewarding session in Jourama Falls forest brought Rufous Fantail (Rhipidura rufifrons) onto favourite perching place and into sharper close focus than the quick-flitting species usually allows.

Shame that all the tail didn't quite fit into this full frame image.


But Spectacled Monarch (Symposiarchus trivirgatus) on the same perch did fit the full frame almost perfectly and needed no sharpening, though it's possible in-camera sharpening (jpeg) shows on some monitors..

Lament for southern Black-throated Finches

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