Monday 28th March-
Gossan Hill- 5 common bronzewings, 2 yellow tailed
black cockies. 10 double barred finches. A large MFF was in flowering cassinia
(cauliflower bush)(sickly sweet smell) 3 speckled warblers (M,F and a juvenile
begging), >10 striated thornbills. 3 varied sittellas, both pardalotes,
Eastern spinebill, No scrubwrens. A golden whistler in a cherry ballart caught
and ate 3 caterpillars within 2 minutes. Rufous whistler. Other usuals. Also saw 1 fork tailed swift UVT
(too fast- but white 'rump' and no white throat, pointed tail). 1 grey currawong
heard. 2 yellow faced honeyeaters. A large proportion of the ridge was burnt 2
years ago (?) and recovering well are Dianella revoluta and indigo plants
(I.australis), also Lomandra, Pultenea,
and other peas and acacias. 3 species of ants were feeding on lerp
exudate on stringybark leaves.
Aranda Bushland- East: Applebox
Gully. Flowering cassinia was finishing. Saw juvenile butcherbird (brown) being
mobbed by many birds including >10 striated thornbills, brown and buff rump
thornbills, scrubwrens, eastern spinebill heard. 2 yf honeyeaters. Also saw 2 grey currawongs,
golden and rufous whistlers. Benj Whitworth
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