@jam-on-toast Thanks Olga, yes I took the photo, it's a male superb wren, his lovely blue feathers are just starting to come in so he's looking a tad ragged! lol! He is sitting on the side of the bird bath I have out in the garden.
beautiful fairy wren shot - there's a mural at a train station near us of one of these guys and a pink version (i don't know if the pink version really exists) but it is cool to see something so tiny scaled up to be massive and take up a whole wall on the side of a brick building! - our outdoor bird bath doesn't get quite so lovely visitorsbut i love the splatter here, it perfectly channels that shake and fine spray of water after the feathered ones have had a dip!
@bellbird Justine, when we lived in Grafton, besides the blue Superb fairy wren, we also had two others, a red backed one and a variegated one that had blue and brown on him. They really have such pretty colours, here is a link to all the pretties we have in Australia https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/wildlife/2019/03/a-guide-to-australias-fairy-wrens/ Down here in Tassie we only get the Superb, blue fairy wren.
@wombat146 thanks for the link - i've only ever seen the superb blue in the wild myself too and i don't see anything like this one on the left on that webpage - maybe it's an artist's impression wren! (the photo is from the Kembla Jottings FB group)
@bellbird Is that Port Kembla I wonder?? We used to live there many many years ago, the mountain looks a bit familiar! lol! and that little red bird isn't a wren, it's a little Scarlet honeyeater, we used get them up north as well but not down here, bummer!!! https://mdahlem.net/birds/18/scarlhon.php
@wombat146 i had no idea you were once an Illawarra local! Small world! Your guess is pretty close, it's on an old telstra building down from Unanderra train station, we live a bit west of Dapto if you remember the area (DD is on her L's and last nights 'need more hours in the log book' night drive was to Port Kembla/Hill 60) and i'm pretty sure that's Mt Keira or Mt Kembla as the mural backdrop - i think that's why i felt at home and liked Tas so much, it has so much of the natural stuff we have, lots of water with mountains in the background but with less urban sprawl!
(oh and that totally looks like your honeyeater link but i dont think i've ever seen a honeyeater like that in real life - i think the ones that visit our grevillias and bottlebrush are more like eastern spinebills)
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