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White-plumed Honeyeater |
Sightings
White-plumed Honeyeaters are visible and audible around our place south of Narrabri, New South Wales, basically every day, except the coldest seaon. They come in whole families and sometimes make quite a racket.
Photos
White-plumed Honeyeater feeding in a Bottlebrush tree
Frontal view of an adult White-plumed Honeyeater (click on image for larger version)
Lateral view of an adult White-plumed Honeyeater (click on image for larger version)
Immature bird feeding head-down in a bottlebrush (click on image for larger version)
Lateral view of an immature White-plumed Honeyeater (click on image for larger version)
More frontal view of an immature White-plumed Honeyeater (click on image for larger version)
Nest
Here a view of a White-plumed Honeyeater chick in its nest in a White Cedar tree.
White-plumed Honeyeater chick in its nest in a White Cedar tree
Habits
White-plumed Honeyeaters are one of the species that like a good splash every day; however, they do not only use shallow bowls or puddles for taking their bath - instead they fly from perches onto the surface of standing water fluttering their wings, just touching the surfaces and getting half-emersed before taking off back to the perch again (see photo below).
Action shot of a White-plumed Honeyeater flying in for a bath
Another unexpected experience was seeing White-plumed Honeyeaters foraging for insects in tree bark in wintertime.