Hi All,
Some unrelated observations:
Still warm and dry at Violet Town but we saw the first Scarlet Robins of the
season yesterday (a pair, 25 Mar.) and again today.
Probably also heard the last Bee-eaters yesterday. After seeing very few
Bee-eaters early in the season, small groups (including maybe 50% juveniles)
have been here most days from the second week in January until 4 March but
have only been recorded on four days since then. I assume that they have
been migrating to the north but as I only ever see them going west or east
they could be the same birds every day!
There has been a fair bit of eucalypt blossom here at home and in the
district in the last two months, including some red box, a lot of grey box,
some stringybark and an ironbark in the garden. There has however been
very little associated honeyeater activity until this week when the ironbark
apparently became tasty. This tree is now very busy, but the grey box trees
still have no visitors and the stringybark and red box have finished. Birds
seen feeding in the ironbark this week, not all nectar feeders, include
White-plumed, New Holland, Yellow-faced, White-naped, Brown-headed and
Fuscous honeyeaters, Red Wattlebird, Noisy Friarbird, Silvereye,
Mistletoebird, Eastern Spinebill, Spotted and Striated Pardalotes,
Olive-backed Oriole, Crimson Rosella, Rufous Whistler, Grey Shrike-thrush
and Crested Shrike-tit.
Regards
Barry McLean
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