Hi Carol and others
I have also been noticing definite signs of autumn in wet forests in the Vic
Central Highlands with the appearance of the first large flock of Red
Wattlebirds that I have seen for the season. In autumn and winter the RWB
flocks here are really large and the birds are eerily quiet.
I have also heard the autumn/winter calls of the Grey Shrike-thrushes and
several of the other species are much harder to find now because they are
calling less frequently.
However, there are many juvenile and immature birds about, some still being fed
by their parents, and all the migrating species are still here. The male
Golden Whistlers are looking very shabby as they are in the middle of moulting.
Cheers,
Merrilyn
Carol Probets wrote:
> 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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