Hi Patrick,
We have just been viewing Red-eared Firetails too, but at Lesmurdie Falls,
WA. Looking at photos online it appears that Juveniles get the spots before
they get their ear-patch colour, so the birds you saw were probably well
grown but young birds.
From Jenny Stiles, Sydney
On 27 Feb 2015, at 12:50 am, Patrick Scully <> wrote:
Hello All,
I just recently had a trip down to Cheynes Beach (20 to 24 th Feb) with
Cherilyn Corker from Mandurah.
We had luck with just one of the 3 skulkers, the Noisy Scrub- bird. It
was calling but took enormous effort to get a brief view. The Western
Whipbird was not calling at all, with exactly the same result at Mt Trio
in the Stirling Ranges. We did hear one brief call of Western Bristlebird
just opposite the entrance to Cheynes Beach caravan park.
We did see an amazingly close view of Red eared Firetail and I suspect
that Pizzey and Knight are wrong with their description of the female. We
saw males with scarlet very bright (they were less than half a metre
away) ear patches and what I assume to be females that were identical but
with no ear patches. Is that correct? Can some knowledgeable person
please explain. And is Pizzey wrong about the female?
We were lucky with Rock Parrot. We had dinner with Cherry's friend in
Albany and she mentioned having seen an unusual bird on the beach, which
of course was a Rock Parrot. We arranged to meet her on Sunday morning
and drove to the cafe in the old whaling station and sure enough we had
great views of Rock Parrot on the beach below the cafe and the next beach
to the right of the cafe. I did try at Lancelin for another look without
success. Another treat was a very close up view of Elegant Parrots
perched on low tree branches at the Stirling Range Retreat in the
afternoon.
Best wishes,
Patrick Scully
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