Wild Bird Wednesday - Port Augusta Birds

I shot all these while drinking my hot chocolate

on the terrace of the 

Port Augusta Arid Lands Botanical Gardens

Unfortunately all were shot against the light

and had to be enhanced

Wattlebird

Singing Honeyeater on left and

White-Plumed Honeyeater on right

this one dead tree in front of the

picture windows of the cafe

was a perfect perch

with upwards of 4 birds at a time

Singing Honeyeater

White-Plumed Honeyeater

and, as everywhere near human habitation,

a European settler, the ordinary 

House Sparrow

Linking with Stewart's

Wild Bird Wednesday

God willing, next week some more colourful birds 

from the same location.

Wild Bird Wednesday & Nature Notes - Arid Land Birds

These photos are from our last trip to the inland desert country

Click to enlarge to get a better view.

Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater and young

White-plumed Honeyeater, Lichenostomus penicillarus

Inland Thornbill, Acanthiza pusilla

this is the teeniest weeniest tiniest little bird, seen 

mainly in family groups of 10 to 12 and constantly chattering

this is as much as I could crop it

I have narrowed this one down to the Southern Whiteface,

Aphelacephala, leucopsis

again, it is  a very small bird and if I have identified correctly,

a lifer for me.

another view.

These were taken well before the sun was up so clarity

is not the best.

Lastly, the terrain they make their home in.

This is one of the last shots my husband took before he no 

longer could remember how a camera works.

As you may have noticed, I just love the desert country!

Linking with Stewart's

Wild Bird Wednesday

and Michelle's

Nature Notes