Yesterday's rain day provided a lot more interesting SIlvereye Photos than I had been bargaining on!
Looking through all the photos, I realised that most of the day, I basically had two visitors (and an occasional mystery third or forth one).
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As you'll soon seen in the following posts, I ended up naming these two:
1) "Mohawk"
2) "Humperdink"
"Mohawk" was the main one I saw, but it turns out "Humperdink" showed up a bunch of times too. Also, I reckon that actually, both may have been juveniles (or at least Mohawk definitely was!)
Mohawk
Introducing "Mohawk"
So named because of the cute "dark tuffs" on the front of its head that became spiked-out due to it constantly butting its head into raindrop-soaked flowers to feast!
Here's one of the cute moments of Mohawk looking the cutest, but there are a whole bunch of other nice snaps of this birdy in this album: https://www.flickr.com/photos/aligorith/albums/72177720330326369
Humperdink
Introducing "Humperdink"
This one got its name as I noticed that in a bunch of the photos, there was one bird that seemed to have a distinctive "hump back" deformity, leading to its head appearing a lot longer + flatter, along with having a very long and slightly curving black bill.
I'm not sure if this is some kind of birth defect, injury, or maybe a health thing, but it's the first time I've seen one like this in all these years...
(And yes, this name is partly based after that old singer... though I think I may have spelt it wrong after looking up his name on Google)
More photos here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/aligorith/albums/72177720330326404
Dynamic "Birds in Motion"
Finally, it turns out that it's not just flowers with raindrops on them that look cool! Apparently silvereyes flitting between raindrops with wings in motion, and/or even flinging water droplets around are even cooler!
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