This afternoon we were discussing some fruit in the orchard when I happened to get a glimpse of a bright yellow splash of colour at the top of the Strawberry Guava bush. First thought was a bird with a fruit from the adjacent calamondin bush, then suddenly thought, Regent Bower Bird and dashed for the camera.
The bush is some distance away and the zoom is at full 65x optical and the photo quite heavily cropped.
Definitely a male Regent Bower Bird Sericulus chrysocephalus and only the second time I have seen one on our property. They are generally found in the rainforest and adjacent forest areas of coastal Queensland and NSW.
The female is not brightly coloured being olive green to fawn with mottled and scalloped markings.
Their natural food are the fruits of rainforest trees but they are very partial to exotic fruits much the the chagrin of orchardists.
It quickly flew off into the trees where I managed to get another photo before it left the area.
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