A juvenile male???
Saw a number of bristlebirds along the edge of the road throughout the defence force's Beecroft Peninsula weapons range. It is one of the last strongholds for the species and public access is allowed friday-sunday.
Each bird was on its own and would be foraging around in the short grass by the gravel road or at the very edge of the dense coastal heath (identified as shoalhaven lowland heath on the nsw gov site geo seed). The bird would hop around far more often than it would fly. When a car approached it hopped into the dense heath and disappeared.
The sky was overcast all day with very light rain for the morning and lunch period. The temperature remained in the low-mid 20's. The vast majority of the birds we saw on the Peninsula were New Holland Honeyeaters and Superb Fairywrens.