Vik's Gallery:   Red-eared Firetail (1/2)

PASSERIFORMES: Estrildidae

Stagonopleura oculata  

I spent a few hours walking near Wungong Dam and in Wungong Gorge.

I was very pleased to come across this Red-eared Firetail, the only one I saw, deep in the gorge in vegetation near the creek.