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Scarlet Honeyeater still at Banyule Flats

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Subject: Scarlet Honeyeater still at Banyule Flats
From: brian fleming <>
Date: Sat, 01 May 2010 16:52:13 +1000
This morning at about 11.30 am I succeeded in photographing a male Scarlet Honeyeater at Banyule Flats. This was on the Riverbank Track, just west of the Windmill Gate. The bird was feeding in a flowering clump of Grey mistletoe which forms dense clumps in Silver Wattles, along with Grey Fantails, migrant Tasmanian Silvereyes, and Brown Thornbills.

Will the Scarlets stay on as long as the Mistletoe keeps flowering? or will the colder weather send them home? All the Grey Mistletoe clumps I have checked seem to still have plenty of buds coming on. If they fruit as well as they have flowered, we should have plenty of Mistletoe-birds and who knows, maybe even Painted Honeyeaters later.

Anthea Fleming

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