Harcourt Hill-Arrabri Ridge

["Marnix Zwankhuizen" <>]

Today I walked the ridgeline running from the Barton Highway to the furtherst NW point of Canberra at Hunters Hill crossing Harcourt Hill, Arrabri Ridge and Ngunnawal Horse Paddocks on the way.

 

A lone Wedge-tailed Eagle soared high above Hall. But the highlight was a MFF including 3 Hooded Robins (1 adult male), 2 Scarlet Robins (3 pairs all up along the ridge), 4 Southern Whitefaces and Varied Sittellas in a patch of grazed stringybark littered with dead timber and rocks overlooking Nicholls. I think the Hooded Robins may have been pushed to the edge of their territory due to the noise of the Hall Markets. Hooded Robins have inhabited a territory near there along Halls Creek in previous years.

 

The Whitefaces are the first I have seen this winter in Canberra. I have recorded them once before in the Gungahlin area at Moncrieff Ridge.

 

Cheers

Marnix

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