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Eastern Yellow Robin |
Sightings
Eastern Yellow Robins (race "chrysorrhoa") are very accommodating customers. One can approach them quite easily and have a close look. Seen in summer of 2004 around our place south of Narrabri, New South Wales. No more sightings at our place until 2006, May, when a family of three came in during a period of drought. Also sighted on a trip to the east of the dividing range, in the area from Armidale to Dorrigo and Iluka, New South Wales, in wintertime. In January 2006 we spotted a ragged-looking bird at Sawn Rocks (Mount Kaputar National Park) that we think is an immature Eastern Yellow Robin.
Photos
Frontal view of an Eastern Yellow Robin (click on image for larger version)
Lateral view of the same bird (click on image for larger version)
Close to frontal view of an Eastern Yellow Robin sitting in a lemon tree (click on image for full-size display)
Lateral view slightly from behind of an Eastern Yellow Robin (click on image for full-size display)
Eastern Yellow Robin in brilliant early-morning sunlight (click on image for larger version)
Eastern Yellow Robin hunting off a tree trunk (click on image for larger version)
Immature Eastern Yellow Robin(?) hiding amongst shrubs; one can see that the belly is starting to turn yellow, while the rest is still speckled with grey and looking ragged because the bird is moulting (click on image for larger version)
Here a somewhat older immature Eastern Yellow Robin that has only a few specks left in its now almost entirely yellow breast plumage
Nest
Photo of an Eastern Yellow Robin nest in the fork of a Eucalypt tree
Habits
One peculiarity that we noticed in May of 2006 is that Eastern Yellow Robins came to take a bath at our place late after sunsight, in the last twilight of the day, when most other birds have already settled on their roosts.
And, incredibly, in a stand-off between a Willie Wagtail and an Eastern Yellow Robin over the rights to their favourite hunting ground, the latter came out ontop!