Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater

[Jan Wegener]

Honeyeaters are such a amazing group of birds. Somehow like the Australian version of your warblers. They vary quite a bit in size and appearance, though. I always loved how interesting and kinda funny the Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater looks. I was more than stoked to finally be able to photograph it on a great morning with sweet light.

1D Mark IV
600 L IS
F 6.3
ISo 800

[RAM MALLYA]

Lovely Bird with a nice perch and BG . The head of the bird seems to be a little soft .

[Frank Schauf]

Perfect comp and bg, nice work, Jan.

[Satish Ranadive]

Excellent image of beautiful bird with lovely composition. Nice perch ,light and bg...

[Mark Itol]

Beautiful image, Jan. Interesting-looking bird and on a very nice setting. The diagonal pose make it a little tricky to compose. Perhaps a 5:4 vertical with the bird bigger in the frame?

[Tom Rambaut]

Nice image Jan - Nice to get the bird out in the open and on a nice dead piece of wood with great BG. I like the lines here.

[arash_hazeghi]

very cool, never seen this specie before, lovely pose and a good perch too

[Dave Leroy]

Lovely alert pose. Perch and bg are excellent. My preference would be for just a bit more tail room. Very nice photo.

[Arno Ellmer]

Great capture of an interesting bird,Jan.Never seen one of these before.
I like the pose and the perch.

[Don Lacy]

Great pose ,comp, and perch can not get much better then this.

[june skywell]

This is great! How did you get it out of the foliage onto an exposed perch? I suppose it's been set-up?