Not much olive

We had a visit from a pair of young Olive-backed Orioles and they had me a bit confused as to their identity for awhile as they don't have the adult plumage, eye colour or beak colour. 

After a bit of checking it seems that they do not develop the adult plumage for about a year.

 

A Spring arrival

Our unseasonably warm weather has flora and fauna a bit confuse thinking spring has already arrived and today we had a migrant fly in and sing in full voice looking to attract a mate. It didn't give me a clear photo opportunity being content to stay amongst the mistletoe foliage where it blended in to the background.

 The visitor is a Olive-Backed Oriole Oriolus sagittatus  which has a range from New Guinea and northern Australia where they are year round residents down through eastern Australia and as far as Adelaide being migrants in the southern parts.