a row of White-breasted Woodswallows

 eight of us

nine

and side-stepping for a moment; a location shot, just across the road some

ten

...you've been checking my count? ... we're up to eleven now :)

seems there was enough body warmth happening up top; so let's start another row shall we?

At this point I couldn't stand back any further and capture well enough, so just shifted focus to the newcomers on the bottom line.  While standing and photographing these sweet little birds, on a very windy day .... I was missing out on three Sacred Kingfishers, some of the birding group were observing sitting on another wire, a little further up the road.

The sky and light wasn't good, so I had figured black/white might've been more successful capture anyway, though I would've liked to have tried with the Kingfishers of course, but they'd left by the time I'd walked away from the Woodswallows.


Birds in Backyards fact sheet on the White-breasted Woodswallows is here - you can hear them too.

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