Fork-tailed Swifts en masse in QLD.

["Alan Gillanders" <>]

Nothing like those numbers but this morning at a tree planting at Massey 
Creek east of Ravenshoe, Atherton Tablelands I observed a minimum of 60 
WTNT, 550 FTSw and 150 unidentified swifts flying south over the period of 
just over and hour. Mostly they cam through in flocks of 10 to 40 with the 
largest flocks being about 60 birds. Nearly all the WTNT were in the first 
half hour of my observations as were the more distant flocks unidentified. 
One planter told me that the birds had been coming over from the north since 
he had arrived, an hour before I started noticing them.
The birds were heading south, skimming the ridge tops.

Near Whiting Road, Millaa Millaa, around midday I saw another 35 FTSW 
presumably feeding in a valley.
Regards,
Alan 

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