Wildlife: Birdsters! May is here and we want to see your 'firsts'! :-), 1 by kennedyh

kennedyh wrote:
My first for this month is our smallest honeyeater the Eastern Spinebill Acanthorhynchus tenuirostris. This is one of the commonest honeyeaters around here, but it qualifies as it was the first bird I saw in the garden this month. These lovely little birds feed mostly on plant nectar, especiially tubular flowers. It often visits our New Zealand Fuchsia Fuchsia procumbens http://davesgarden.com/pf/showimage/18770/ and also a so-called native Fuchsia, the Dusky Bells Correa mannii http://davesgarden.com/pf/showimage/10838/ both of which grow outside our kitchen window.
This is our nearest equivalent to a Humming Bird and it does sometomes hover in front of a flower while it feeds, but it prefers to feed from a perch.