Silver-eye

This little bird has been blipped before, and much more successfully by some of my good New Zealand friends, notably TeeJay, Timguru, CabbageTree, and I'm certain many more. But it's the first time I've managed to get an image in my own garden. This image was taken with the 300 mm lens fully extended, and it was miles away in a neighbour's tree. It's cropped down to the nth degree. I honestly don't think it's worth enlarging.

But it is what it is, a first for me.

Silvereye (Zosterops lateralis):
The Silvereye is a small bird with a conspicuous ring of white feathers around the eye, and belongs to a group of birds known as white-eyes. The Silvereye shows interesting plumage variations across its range. The grey back and olive-green head and wings are found in birds through the east, while western birds have a uniformly olive-green back.

Breeding birds of the east coast have yellow throats, pale buff flanks (side of the belly) and white on the undertail. Tasmanian birds have grey throats, chestnut flanks and yellow on the undertail. To complicate this, the birds in the east have regular migrations within Australia and may replace each other in their different areas for parts of the year.

Birds in Western Australia have yellowish olive, rather than grey, backs.