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Hi Keith,
Lots of brown hairy caterpillars getting about in
single file at our place (near Cooranbong, NSW). They eat the leaves of wattle
trees, especially the fern leaved varieties like Acacia fimbriata. They build
'nests' around the base of the trunk that are covered in silk like spiderweb.
These fill up with their droppings and make good fertiliser. Lots of different
sorts of moths (and their caterpillars) around at the moment. No sign of any
Yellow-faced Honeyeaters migrating around here yet but, like you I have noticed
an increase in Spotted Pardalote numbers.
Paul Osborn
There was a few Yellow faced HE migrating through
Castlereagh, lots of Spotted Pards but didnt seem to be migrating
There seems to be a mass hatching of small hairy
brown catterpillars in the Hawkesbury over the past two weeks every other bird
you see in the bush seems to have one in its mouth, any one else seeing
them.
keith
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