Saturday, December 26, 2009

Odd Eugene Hummer Dec 25-26 2009







This bird is one of three hummers currently using my feeder. At first I thought it was an HY male Costa's. Then I concluded that it is an Anna's. Now I am not sure. It has no tail (literally - tail feathers are missing). It is consistently driven off by a young male Annas's, which makes pictures hard to get. One experienced hummer person thinks it is a Costa's based on throat pattern and bill length. Comments welcome.

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Australia tour concludes

I'm done birding and looking forward to lunch tomorrow with Colin Brumby, one of the world's greatest living composers, with whom I have corresponded. I return to Oregon on Deember 12. My bird list follows. Enjoy the new photos !

Australian Brush-turkey
Magpie Goose
Plumed Whistling-Duck
Musk Duck
Freckled Duck
Black Swan
Australian Wood Duck
Pink-eared Duck
Grey Teal
Chestnut Teal
Blue-billed Duck
Pacific Black Duck
Hardhead
Australasian Grebe
Great Crested Grebe
Rock Dove*
Spotted Dove*
Brown Cuckoo-Dove
Emerald Dove
Common Bronzewing
Crested Pigeon
Peaceful Dove
Bar-shouldered Dove
Wompoo Fruit-Dove
Rose-crowned Fruit-Dove
Tawny Frogmouth
White-throated Needletail
Fork-tailed Swift
Asutralasian Darter
Little Pied Cormorant
Little Black Cormorant
Australian Pelican
White-necked Heron
Eastern Great Egret
Intermediate Egret
Cattle Egret
Striated Heron
White-faced Heron
Little Egret
Glossy Ibis
Australian White Ibis
Straw-necked Ibis
Royal Spoonbill
Yellow-billed Spoonbill
Black-shouldered Kite
Pacific Baza
Whistling Kite
Brahminy Kite
Black Kite
Brown Goshawk
Collared Sparrowhawk
Grey Goshawk
Spotted Harrier
Brown Falcon
Purple Swamphen
Buff-banded Rail
Dusky Moorhen
Eurasian Coot
Bush Stone-curlew
Australian Pied Oystercatcher
Black-winged Stilt
Red-necked Avocet
Pacific Golden Plover
Red-capped Plover
Black-fronted Dotterel
Red-kneed Dotterel
Banded Lapwing
Masked Lapwing
Comb-crested Jacana
Latham's Snipe
Black-tailed Godwit
Bar-tailed Godwit
Whimbrel
Eastern Curlew
Terek Sandpiper
Marsh Sandpiper
Common Greenshank
Great Knot
Red-necked Stint
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
Curlew Sandpiper
Painted Button-quail
Little Tern
Caspian Tern
Whiskered Tern
Silver Gull
Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo
Galah
Long-billed Corella
Little Corella
Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
Cockatiel
Rainbow Lorikeet
Scaly-breasted Lorikeet
Little Lorikeet
Australian King-Parrot
Crimson Rosella
Eastern Rosella
Pale-headed Rosella
Red-rumped Parrot
Turquoise Parrot
Pheasant Coucal
Eastern Koel
Channel-billed Cuckoo
Shining Bronze-Cuckoo
Pallid Cuckoo
Fan-tailed Cuckoo
Brush Cuckoo
Southern Boobook
Azure Kingfisher
Laughing Kookaburra
Sacred Kingfisher
Collared Kingfisher
Rainbow Bee-eater
Dollarbird
White-throated Treecreeper
Red-browed Treecreeper
Brown Treecreeper
Green Catbird
Regent Bowerbird
Satin Bowerbird
Superb Fairy-wren
Red-backed Fairy-wren
White-winged Fairy-wren
Variegated Fairy-wren
Yellow-throated Scrubwren
White-browed Scrubwren
Large-billed Scrubwren
Weebill
Brown Gerygone
Mangrove Gerygone
Western Gerygone
White-throated Gerygone
Striated Thornbill
Yellow Thornbill
Yellow-rumped Thornbill
Buff-rumped Thornbill
Brown Thornbill
Spotted Pardalote
Eastern Spinebill
Lewin's Honeyeater
Yellow-faced Honeyeater
Mangrove Honeyeater
White-eared Honeyeater
Yellow-tufted Honeyeater
Fuscous Honeyeater
White-plumed Honeyeater
Bell Miner
Noisy Miner
Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater
Red Wattlebird
Brown Honeyeater
Brown-headed Honeyeater
White-naped Honeyeater
Blue-faced Honeyeater
Noisy Friarbird
Little Friarbird
Striped Honeyeater
Grey-crowned Babbler
Australian Logrunner
Eastern Whipbird
Varied Sittella
Ground Cuckoo-shrike
Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike
Cicadabird
White-winged Triller
Golden Whistler
Rufous Whistler
Grey Shrike-thrush
Australasian Figbird
Olive-backed Oriole
White-breasted Woodswallow
Dusky Woodswallow
Grey Butcherbird
Pied Butcherbird
Australian Magpie
Pied Currawong
Spangled Drongo
Rufous Fantail
Grey Fantail
Willie Wagtail
Australian Raven
Torresian Crow
Leaden Flycatcher
Black-faced Monarch
Magpie-lark
White-winged Chough
Apostlebird
Paradise Riflebird
Jacky Winter
Rose Robin
Hooded Robin
Pale-yellow Robin
Eastern Yellow Robin
Golden-headed Cisticola
Australian Reed-Warbler
Tawny Grassbird
Little Grassbird
Rufous Songlark
Silvereye
Welcome Swallow
Fairy Martin
Tree Martin
*Common Starling
Common Myna*
Mistletoebird
Zebra Finch
Double-barred Finch
Plum-headed Finch
Red-browed Finch
Diamond Firetail
Chestnut-breasted Mannikin
House Sparrow*
Australasian Pipit

Azure Kingfisher

Freckled Duck and Little Black Corms

Plum-headed Finch

Grey-crowned Babbler

female Satin Bowerbird