Thanks for your comments and favs on yesterday's currawong photo.
I have a busy day ahead so am posting early.
While I was taking photos of the currawong, I noticed this noisy miner bird patiently waiting to be fed, so I took his photo too.
Noisy miners are Australian natives and are of the honeyeater family. They are often mistaken for the Indian Myna.
They are endemic to eastern and southeastern Australia.
Some people say the attack other birds but that isn't the case in our garden. They are all well behaved, probably because everything that appears in our garden is well fed, so there is no need to feel intimidated.
Our noisy miners always alert us to an unusual visitor in the garden - they tolerate the nectar and seed eaters but chase away the carnivores like kookas and maggies.
@annied You need to tell them who is boss. The kookas, currawongs, butcher birds and maggies aren't in the least scared of noisy miners in our garden. We also get blue faced honey eaters, green fig birds, corellas, galahs, lorikeets, rosellas and koels, so I guess the noisy miners are outnumbered. ha ha.
I thought he was praying to the Lord to provide him with food from the way he is looking towards heaven. You got a agnificent capture of him and he is a very cute bird. Fav.
@clifford Ha ha I already am, well as long as I feed them.