Scarlet Honeyeater still at Banyule Flats

[brian fleming <>]

  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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