Over the past couple of years we have recorded occasional sightings in the Widgiewa area of New Holland Honeyeaters dining on Banksias or
Kniphofias. However I was recently sent a video which included an sequence of several birds of this species enjoying a bird bath in Radcliffe. The following images are screen grabs from that video, taken by
Jeannie Imrie & Michael Wilkes.
The bird bath was also popular with a good sized flock of Red-browed Finches ...
... sometimes sharing with Silvereyes.
The area around this property is a favourite haunt of Cunningham's Skinks (OK, I know they aren't birds but are descended from dinosaurs and lay eggs).
Jeannie and Michael have subsequently sent me some additional images of which a selection, from various time periods, follow.
A Satin Bowerbird has visited in the past. Trying to put demographics to this species is tricky but my guess is a young male bird (throat too colourful for a female and bill too dark for a 5 or 6 year old male).
White-winged Choughs often seem to crowd on one side of a birdbath (in my experience occasionally leading to a fallen bath). This lot seem to have kept their balance.
A Grey-Shrike-thrush in a pot. Jeannie commented that they nest
"every year in the geranium pots hanging on the walls. This year they only managed the one brood, but last year they had two batches."
Wedge-tailed eagles don't fit in birdbaths or flower pots!
