Yellow-faced Honeyeater

Yellow-faced Honeyeater, handmade watercolours on Khadi watercolour paper, 33 x 28 cm, © Matteo Grilli

Brown Honeyeater

Brown Honeyeater, handmade watercolour on Fabriano paper, 24 x 26 cm, © Matteo Grilli

Garden Visitors - the Blue-faced Honeyeater

Journal #8, page 3

The colour of the bare skin around the eyes of the adults is a rich and intense mix of shades of blue, a colour that reminds of all the different shades of the colours of the sea on a bright summer day. Beak and tongue are adapted to eat  nectar, pollen, berries and insects.

Juveniles have different colours, starting from an olive-green brown at an early age, the skin then becomes blue in a matter of weeks.

Entomyzon cyanotis in Australia