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REGENT HONEYEATER AND SWIFT PARROT SURVEY - 21ST MAY 2000

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Subject: REGENT HONEYEATER AND SWIFT PARROT SURVEY - 21ST MAY 2000
From: "Vella" <>
Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 19:33:41 -0000

This morning and the early afternoon, I preformed this survey in the Bulga area (in the NSW Hunter Region - about 200 km north-west of Sydney). The weather at Bulga started off cool and overcast but warmed up a little later as the sun shined on. Unfortunately, I did not see any of the target species despite the abundance of bird life in the area (carrying over from a month ago). There were still some Spotted Gums and a few Forest Red Gums in flower attracting large numbers of Yellow-faced and White-naped Honeyeaters and lesser numbers of Scarlet, Brown-headed, White-eared, Fuscous, Striped and a lone Lewins Honeyeater which seemed a bit out of place in much drier forest. While I was filling in one of the survey forms, I was just about to put down the Little Lorikeets as scarce, when all of a sudden I heard a "whoosh" and saw a whole lot of little green things darting towards me like bullets. It certainly twisted my nerves. There was about a 100 of them and also just as amazing, was seeing hundreds of Dusky Woodswallows all suddenly lift themselves from the tree tops and then swarm overhead like bees. Something certainly disturbed them and could have been one of the Collared Sparrowhawks I had seen.

Other birds seen at Bulga included a pair of Wedge-tailed Eagles displaying, a Brown Falcon, an adult and juv. Collared Sparrowhawk, a few Brown Quail, a pair of Bar-shouldered Doves displaying, several Tree Martins, a few Red-caped and Hooded Robins, Crested Shrike-tits, a small group of Grey-crowned Babblers, many Speckled Warblers and Pied Butcherbirds singing very beautifully, several Brown Tree-creepers, Diamond Firetails, Double-barred and Zebra Finch and several White-winged Choughs.

I also surveyed the Putty area (about 40 km south of Bulga and just off the Putty Rd) but saw little Honeyeater activity and no flowering about the area.

Edwin

 

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