actually it's a tomtit - same genus as the NZ robin - Petroica - it's an Australasian endemic family whose members somewhat resemble the european robin
Nice shot! Alastair On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Brian Walters <supera1...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > On Fri, 08 Jul 2011 20:04 +1200, "David Mann" <d...@multisport.net.nz> > wrote: >> I have more photos to post from our trip last weekend if I ever get the >> time to work on them. But for now here's a little birdie who came to >> greet us when we stopped to take in some scenery on the way home. >> >> http://www.multi.net.nz/robin/ >> >> I think he works as a chimney inspector. >> > > > Very nice. Like Ken, I like the catchlight in the eye. > > It seems to be related to some of our Australian 'robins', although as > far as I know they're only called robins because superficially they look > a bit similar to northern hemisphere robins. > > > > Cheers > > Brian > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Brian Walters > Western Sydney Australia > http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ > > >> K10D, FA 200mm f/2.8. It's cropped a bit... to probably about 1/3rd of >> the total frame area. >> >> Dave > -- > > > -- > http://www.fastmail.fm - IMAP accessible web-mail > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
