It is quite sometime since I have posted anything but it has been a year of activity not associated with nature in the backyard. Much of the nature activity has been similar to many previous posting and I haven't had much time to go looking.
However I didn't have to go searching for this posting as it was in my area of usual activity on the property.
I had sighted a bird that I was sure I hadn't seen previously but didn't have my camera and was only able to get a distant shot with the phone. Not good enough to identify the bird but gave me a couple possibles.
A week later the bird was in the same area and I managed to get the camera and be back to get some photos.
Trying to identify what species the bird was I found two very similar looking birds but after some consultation with a friend and then further confirmation on INaturalist it is a Russet-Tailed Thrush.
They range from northern Queensland east coast down to just south of our location on the mid-north coast of NSW and found in rainforest fringe and woodland forest.
