Flame Robin question

["Val Ford" <>]

Thanks Michael

> From the emails to birding-aus and to me direct it looks like
flame robins are sometimes seen in numbers when not on the move.
For example John Leonard wrote:  "In Canberra they appear later on in the
winter (June-July), and are occasionally seen in large numbers. I have had
over 20 in one paddock a couple of times".

I checked the birding-aus archive this morning [which I should have done
yesterday !!] and found that others had reported in the late 1990s and later
that sometimes groups of flame robins were seen over winter.

Re arrival dates.
I saw lots of flame robins in the mountains at the back of Marysville on
19/4/06 and a few at the top of Mt Gwinnear [Baw Baw NP] on 21/4/07.  Have
they settled here from higher up or were they still on the move?

And  I would still like to know where the Mornington Peninsula flame
robins are coming from !!

Regards
Val