A similar story here in the Blue Mountains. Yesterday morning whilst
driving down the mountains toward Sydney, I noticed numerous flocks of
migrating honeyeaters going over the highway.
The spring migration has begun.
cheers
Carol
PS I'm currently watching two Red Wattlebirds busily gathering nectar from
a flowering plum across the road. Not a flower you normally think of as
being bird-attracting.
Carol Probets
Katoomba NSW
On 27th August Kurtis Lindsay wrote:
>For the past 2 mornings I have been watching the mixed flocks of Yellow
>Faced and other honeyeaters fly over my house in Wahroonga,Sydney.
>So far I have seen around 1720 birds fly over in flocks of up to 60 or so
>birds at a time,most of the species in these flocks are Yellow-Faced but
>there has been some White-Naped and other species.
>There has also been some Red Wattle Birds flying over in small flocks of
>up to 9 birds.
>Cheers
>Kurtis Lindsay
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