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Today I took a photograph that will always be special to me.

I’ve been watching birds through the window for the past few weeks when I wasn’t well enough to be outside with my camera gear. This week has been different. The sun shone, the birds bathed, and I watched them for hours from beneath my fabric hide.

On the first day all that turned up was a lone Brown Thornbill that kept in the shade. Yesterday I managed a shot of a Crimson Rosella, some distant magpies and several rabbits. Today was magical. Several small species turned up, including Brown Thornbills, Striated Thornbills, Red-browed Finches, Eastern Spinebills, a New Holland Honeyeater and a Grey Fantail.

I especially like photographing small birds and at 12cm and about 11g these tiny Silvereyes definitely qualify. This bird is Zosterops lateralis, the sub-species that migrates here from Tasmania. The local birds, Zosterops westernesis, don’t have the rich brown sides of the visitors. I’ve just noticed that their sides match their irises. The yellows and pinks in the background are the retained autumn leaves and the new blossoms of a weeping apricot.

My apologies for sharing another Silvereye so soon after sharing the Birding from the Bathtub post, but I can’t stop smiling when I think about today and look at this shot.

Happy birding, Kim

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