Falklands Wildlife 1 Little birds

I don’t have a big complicated camera, just two little Canon Ixus’s  (just as well I had two as one packed up after being grit blasted on the beach in what felt like a gale  (see below) taking pictures of King Penguins). 

So, usually I don’t bother with birds, and certainly not little ones.  But in the Falklands you can get quite close to them and in the case of the Tussacbird, they come to you – and some of the big ones do too but in attack form rather than being inquisitive…...

So here are some of my favourite little bird pictures…

There are two wrens; the Grass Wren (grass) and the Cobb’s Wren (beach) …

Cobb’s Wren

Grass Wren

Falkland Pippit

Tussacbird

Dark faced ground tyrant

Black throated finch

Falkland Thrush

Magellanic snipe

Snipe chick

Long tailed meadowlark

and lastly a Rufous-chested dotterel