Always spoiling for a fight…

[David Berry]

Our most aggressive honeyeater?

If there's an intruder, these territorial nectar-sippers will see it off. They're our grevilleas: be gone!

Not closely related to the mynas of Asia.

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Canon R5m2 | RF 200–800
800 mm | ƒ/9 | 1/2000s | ISO 8000
30 frames/second | pre-continuous raw | ±7 metres
DxO PR3 | LrC | Ps

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Noisy Miner : Manorina melanocephala
South East Queensland, Australia​

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[Callie]

Nice one, David. They are really handsome, and all over in Goldcoast.

 

[soundbyte]

I would put the Little and or the Yellow Wattlebirds or New Holland Honeyeater in front of these for aggressiveness.
Not many of these around where I live but they are prevalent in other places such as on the Queens Domain.

 

[David Berry]

I would put the Little and or the Yellow Wattlebirds or New Holland Honeyeater in front of these for aggressiveness.

From a few years decades ago, when 8 MP APS-C sensors were making their appearance. Note the long exposure time and low ISO (it was 2005).

My compact 70–300 was a DO (green ring) lens. Canon DO ≈ Nikkor PF. (Of course, marketing execs will dispute that!)

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Canon 20D (crop sensor) | 70–300 DO
300 mm | ƒ/5.6 | 1/320s | ISO 400

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New Holland Honeyeater : Phylidonyris novaehollandiae
South West of Western Australia
May 2005​

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[Rick S]

Beautiful David. IRT to that first one, that eye is incredible.

 

[ssheipel]

Nice shots, David.