Newhaven Day 02: still Swan Lake
After the
Black-breasted Buzzard had left the scene, I returned to birding the
Orange Chats,
Hooded Robins,
Australasian Pipit and
White-winged Fairy-wrens.
The lake had been dry for a while and vegetation was growing over most of it.
I sat down near this bush and just waited.
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| Orange Chat Epthianura aurifons |
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| Australasian Pipit Anthus australis |
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| White-Winged Fairy-wren, female Malurus leucopterus |
The fairy-wren males with eclipse plumage and females always pose identification challenges except here in Gippsland where we only have one species, the Superb Fairy-wren. At Newhaven, you could see the Variegated FW and the Splendid FW as well as the WWFW above. I have decided she is a WWFW because, on close inspection of the photos I took, she had no eyeing at all and her outer tail feathers have no blue tinge. The other two species have an eye-ring of the same colour as the lores or beak. Of course, this is easy to see on the computer but I find is impossible in the field with a swift moving family of fairy-wrens.
Then a couple turned up in formal wear. Mr and Mrs H. Robin.
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| Hooded Robin, female Melanodryas cullatta |
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| Hooded Robin, male Melanodryas cucullata |
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