Hooray, I am actually going to put a message on birding-aus directly related to
birds.
Over summer I manage to keep track from Mount Beenak Fire Lookout about 70
kilometres to the east of Melbourne of what the White-throated Needletails
where
doing.
They where visitors on almost everyday to the lookout. Usually between 9.30
and
11.30 and numbers up to 70. This was an increase on recent years, which
corresponds with people in the surrounding areas, saying that there where less
then normal. They where just helping me (distracting) with my job.
Most lookouts across the Great Divide report them once they find out what they
as
regualr visitors. One coastal lookout Mt Bemm (South of Cann River) reported
them almost daily whereas at the other end of the Balrook Lookout at nelson on
the South Australian border found them there occassionly. In storm conditions
2
lookouts in the Grampians didn?t like them because they would swoop the
lookout.
While I hope it never happens if a lookout observer ever falls off their perch,
I?m going to suggest blaming a little plump bird that flies past our ears at
over
100kmh.
At Mt. Beenak there numbers starting falling around March 15. However 2 groups
with approximately 200 flew past the lookout in perfectly straight lines each a
metre or so apart. A great sight except when your 60 foot off the ground and
their flying within 5 metres of you. The last sighting was on the 28th of
March.
Which was also the last sighting from a lookout this season in Victoria. Most
of
the Gippsland and North East towers had already finished.
Well hope you enjoyed this report,
Cheers,
Paul.
P.S. Hopefully limited forestry messages from me for a while.
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