Comment: Bowra Station stopover

No worries Jim,

I have been into birds since I was a young fella and that was over 40 years ago. Great to see others with similar interests. It can be a challenge to ID them especially for first encounters. I personally would fail if I headed east - reasonably good with all the WA ones.

I have tried (a little bit) to get into photographing birds but they move too fast so until I get a bit more time and patience will stick to large hills and animals without wings ..and looking at other peoples pictures.

Cheers
Greg

Hi Greg,

Another small correction.The Spiny cheeked is of course a honeyeater belonging to the family Acanthagenys. All wattlebirds belong to the family Anthochaera.
But thain again I am a bird nerd and according to my family totally obsessed with birdwatching.

Great hobby. Enjoy and thanks for posting.

cheers, Case

Case
thanks for the ID help
Jim

Hi...

Another small correction ...Acanthagenys and Anthochaera are genus names ..not family names :)

The spiny cheeked honeyeater is in the same family as all honeyeaters ..including wattlebirds (Meliphagidae).

Didn't bother mentioning the use of "wattlebird" for the spiny-cheeked honeyeater as being slightly incorrect in my original post as didn't want to appear too pendantic but looks like I have now :)

Keep on birding..

Cheers
Greg

Its complicated, glad I just press the button. I have many unknowns on my flickr page if you ever get bored?

Hi Jim

It's complicated alright.
Been birding for over 50 years and still learning. Did not want to confuse you too much and go into detail.

Thanks for your link to the flickr page. You got some awesome photographs in there. Even though I go birding every day of my 6 months stay in Australia every year I am still jealous of some of your pics and will revisit the site.

Happy birding and enjoy.

cheers, case