Bird on a Post

[Alan]

Taken only as an ID photo as I'd never seen one of these before.

But the more I looked at it, the more I liked it as a photo in it's own right, (quite a big crop)

I think it's a Fan tailed Cuckoo

"The Fan-tailed Cuckoo is a slender cuckoo and the adult bird is easily identified by a yellow eye ring (slightly greenish in young birds), its generally dark slate-grey back and wings, becoming pale rufous below, with a boldly barred black and white under tail." BIB



D90 70-210mm 1/1250 f7.1 400 ISO hand held

[seaslug]

New one on me.

[P Plates]

Me too - cute little fellow and singing his heart out. Guess other birds don't think cuckoos are cute.

[Alan]

Apparently this bird is sometimes called the Lazy Postman as its song sounds like someone blowing a pea whistle and running out of breath.