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Early migrating honeyeaters

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Subject: Early migrating honeyeaters
From: Carol Probets <>
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 12:38:32 +1100
Hi All,

For the past couple of weeks there have been occasional small flocks of
Yellow-faced Honeyeaters flying around restlessly over my place. This
morning the sun is shining after a few days of rain and the honeyeaters
seem to be going in a more definite northward direction with a real urgency
in their contact calls (a particularly characteristic sound of autumn
here). I don't see the big numbers moving through until March or April but
the past 2 or 3 seasons they seem to have largely by-passed my area. In a
good year I regularly get up to 4000 or more per hour flying over my house,
and I'm hoping this year will see a return to those numbers.

Other birds moving through my street during the past week have included a
small group of Rufous Fantails, a Satin Flycatcher and, last Thursday, a
dozen Little Lorikeets that nearly took my head off as they shot past. This
morning, as well as the YFHEs there have been quite a few Red Wattlebirds
flying through, Silvereyes and a Mistletoebird.

I've recently moved my office into a front room of the house where I can
look into the tops of the Eucalyptus oreades across the road (which are
currently in flower) and see a large part of the sky where the migrating
flocks travel across. Oh dear, looks like I might not be getting much work
done on days like this!

Cheers

Carol


Carol Probets
Katoomba
Blue Mountains NSW








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