This year has seen the first records of Black and
Pied Honeyeaters in Townsville. The Pieds showed up in mistletoes at
the Town Common at the end of September and the first Blacks were in the
same spot on October 19th. Since then there have been further sightings of a
flock of about 15 Black Honeyeaters at the Dept of Primary Industry property at
Oonoomba last week and last weekend a pair of males and a female in
woodland near Belgian Gardens cemetery. There's also been the usual
seasonal influx of Little Friarbirds in greater numbers than usual so that
they currently outnumber the Helmeteds.
Jo Wieneke
Townsville
Queensland.
