Hi all,
I haven't posted for a while - simply not enough hours in a day - but
just had to report the good conditions in the Capertee Valley at the
moment and especially the Regent Honeyeater I saw with some American
visitors on Saturday. This is usually the time of year that Regents
are more difficult to find but the mistletoe in the eucalypts is
flowering very well right now - as are the Grey Box trees - and
attracting a few honeyeaters, so I half expected that some might turn
up. The Regent we saw was silently hawking for insects and feeding in
flowering mistletoe on Crown Station Road. I'm pretty sure there was
also a second bird, an immature, but it disappeared into distant
trees before we could confirm this.
At the same location we saw White-backed Swallows circling high
overhead. Other good sightings on Saturday included Plum-headed
Finches near the Glen Davis road/Glen Alice road junction, Gang-gangs
at Glen Davis and, on my place, Turquoise Parrots feeding on
mistletoe flowers. In the past I've seen these usually seed-eating
parrots feeding on flowers of a rare grevillea in the northern part
of the valley, so they are obviously not indifferent to the sweetness
of nectar.
Little Lorikeets seem to be concentrating more on the flowering Grey
Box. Also in the valley are large numbers of Black-faced
Cuckoo-shrikes moving through and many Jacky Winters which have now
moved out into the paddocks and sitting on fences everywhere.
I suggest anyone visiting the Valley right now keep a close eye on
any flowering mistletoe and Grey Box - anywhere in the valley. The
Capertee Valley is in the NSW central tablelands area, north of
Lithgow.
cheers
Carol
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PO Box 330
Katoomba NSW 2780
Phone (02) 4782 1831
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Guided birding in the Blue Mountains & Capertee Valley
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