HeHo posing

It’s been a long time since I’ve shared a photograph of a Critically Endangered Helmeted Honeyeater and this shot is one of my favourites.

I used to be one of the team of volunteers helping with the supplementary feeding of these exquisite birds and I’m hoping to be able to join them again before too long.

Helmeted Honeyeaters became Victoria’s avian emblem in 1971 as they are such a beautiful species and are believed to have never existed in the wild anywhere other than this state. Just a few years later, in 1990, their numbers plummeted to just 50 birds. Thanks to the work of the friends group and the recovery team the number of HeHos is gradually increasing.

Occasionally new stations are added to the original supplementary feeding areas. I took this photograph during one of my first visits a a new section. When photographing wild birds there is, of course, no control over whether they perch on a star picket or on a stunning tree stump like the one above.

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Happy birding, Kim

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