Monday, 17 February 2014

Shining Flycatcher

It's not everyday you get to see a new bird. On the 14th of February we went to Bullock Point to see what birds were around. As we walked down a side track, I was trying to get a photo of a kingfisher which flew into a tree just in front of me,and Kel said "what was that bird with the reddish back"? I quickly turned the camera around in time to get photos of the Shining Flycatcher, (at first we thought this was a female, but it may be an immature), which neither of us had seen before.
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 Shining Flycatcher (Myiagra alecto)(Immature?)
 

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4 comments:

mick said...

Congratulations on your "lifer" - and Fantastic photos - I love the reflections!

eileeninmd said...

Pretty flycatcher and cool reflection captures. Congrats on your lifer!

TexWisGirl said...

what an amazingly colored bird! congrats!

Wally Jones said...

Wow, that's a great looking flycatcher!

Good show on a life bird!