gemfyre | This is for the birds...

Even though they aren't my favourite animals, the accessibilty of birds allows me to just go into my front or backyard and watch them, so I do.

And it's official. There is a colony of white cheeked honeyeaters in the vicinity. :) White cheeks look almost identical to the ultra-common New Holland Honeyeater except they have, duh, white cheeks. New Hollands aren't abundant here in Greenmount but not rare either. Down on Murdoch uni campus New Hollands are EVERYWHERE. We caught stacks of them when we were netting birds. We only caught a few white cheeks down there. Not sure how common they are in the foothills but I think overall they are a more scarce species than the New Hollands (although the website I get my pretty pictures off says otherwise). The ones we get alot around here are singing and brown honeyeaters, unfortunately Phantom has developed a knack of catching those. }:-\

Heh heh, I can hear them fighting over roosting spots. I just went to take a look and saw browns, New Hollands and white cheeks all flitting about and chattering and chirping.

Ugh, delay, lost my train of thought about birdies. Well anyway, without further ado, here's ones I prepared earlier.

White Cheeked Honeyeater

New Holland Honeyeater

White Naped Honeyeater

I haven't mentioned this guy yet. We caught one of them while netting on the Murdoch campus. Apparently more could be heard but I didn't see any. They are rather scarce this far north and in developed areas.

Brown Honeyeater