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Regent Honeyeater/Capertee Valley

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Subject: Regent Honeyeater/Capertee Valley
From: Carol Probets <>
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 07:08:56 +1100
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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