hello all...
my apologies for this much delayed posting, but I've had major computer &
on-line issues...something of a constant frustration up here at the moment!!
some 2 weeks ago on 01/03/14 I had the lucky fortune to witness a massive mixed
flock of hawking swifts above the southern end of Trinity Beach, where I live
north of Cairns.
conditions were stormy & time was from 7:30-8:30am.
amongst the flock I counted at least 80 White-throated Needletails, 50-ish Aust
Swiftlets, 100's (i'm guessing 2000+) of Fork-tailed Swifts, together with
many White-breasted Woodswallows & a few Welcome Swallows... flying ants were
their prey...
this is the highest recent count I've had of needletails on the Cairns lowlands
in many years...many of the Fork-tailed's were in tail moult but there were no
House Swifts discernible in the group, all birds with shortish forked tails
were definite Forkies.
a truly amazing morning!!
cheers
martin cachard, Cairns
> Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 01:18:00 +0000
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> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Swifts
>
> I wonder where Whiskers Creek is.
> Here at Wongaling Beach, FNQ (17 deg 55'00" S 146deg 05' 48" E more or less)
> we saw at least 12 White-throated needletails hawking overhead at 8am, with
> only 5 Aust swiftlets with them, on Saturday 15 March. First we've noticed
> for this year.
> They really are fun to watch, must be good for neck flexibility as they zoom
> past.
> Helen
>
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>
>
>
> On Saturday, 15 March 2014, 9:27, Martin Butterfield <>
> wrote:
>
> Thanks to a tip-off from Ros Cornish I have just recorded 6 White-throated
> Needletails hawking over Whiskers Creek. Although seen *from *my GBS site
> they were about 500m upstream so couldn't be counted for that purpose.
> They did oblige nicely for my "Bird-a-day" project however.
>
>
> Martin Butterfield
> http://franmart.blogspot.com.au/
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