Yellow Rumped Thornbill

[Isac]

I have never seen one of these before. Maybe now the lake has dried up, these tiny birds are finding some little bugs to feed on. Not the best IQ but they are very shy and super fast and the light was harsh. Get what you can I reckon. I'll keep a lookout for more and use the Siggy 150-500 and get the shutter up to 1/2000th.

[Grumpy John]

Not bad considering the conditions Isac. Hopefully they will stay around when the water returns.
Do you have many noisy miners around, they scare a lot of the smaller birds off?
Was this taken with the Tammy?

[Isac]

Yeah taken with the Tammy and it was a bit bright and a fair distance away. I'm hoping to see more but that's a wait and see situation. The noisy miners are endemic to eastern and south-eastern Australia so we don't see them here (hopefully). They are aggresive and can cause harm to the smaller birds.

[Ralph]

We have these here in good numbers but really hard to get close to so I do my best when I see them.
Here they are with the Southern Whiteface who have the same ground hugging habits. Then you can add in the Chestnut-rumped Thornbill.
All who are with the same flighty habits, though the Chestnut-rumped one is far less flighty to the others

[Isac]

Thanks Ralph. I'd be keen to see those birds if you have some photos to post.

[Ralph]

Here are a few Yellow Rumped Thornbill shots. I just done a quick hunt for them so they are in not real order or date when I originally posted them.
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The last one is where I was starting to get things right in camera over editting the shots in Photoshop.

[Isac]

Much better than I got Ralph! The last one is appealing to me because that's the type of activity I captured when I saw them here.

[Ralph]

This last shot is when I started to work out how to do things better. I know I will still have to fall backs here and there but over all that one was the better of the lot what I posted.

[Isac]

Thanks for that Ralph.