Cal

🌄 I am happy enough to be on a journey which allows me to see amazing bird species I could only dream about before. 🌅

Today's culprit is one of the most spread bird species here, known as silvereye, white-eye, tauhou or waxeye.

Despite they are having bright green colored head, it is exactly the color to have here to blend with the environment not to be seen. Rest of the body is grey-ish with some shades of brown. Of course the significant mark is the white/silver eye giving these fellas their name.

They are very small birds but amazing hunters - they are able to catch an insect mid-fly. If not hunting they can also feed on fruit and nectar.

This was a succesfull hunt I was able to catch on camera on Mount Iron in Wanaka.

This is a much more common sight of waxeye feeding on small fruit.

They can be seen both alone or in flocks around all New Zealand - they are happy pretty much everywhere here.