Superb addenda

["Geoffrey Dabb" <>]

I checked the fashionable venues late yesterday  before (actually slightly during) the shower and this morning.  None at Macquarie Oval.  Many still at the empty car-parks behind DIMIA etc  This morning I counted 30 in one tree and estimated well over 100 in the general area.  They were feeding on lerps, lerps and lerps.  Mainly but not only in the more compact round-leaved eucs which I think are Red Box and most of the leaves of which have many quite small lerp scales..  On the other hand the more open-branched eucs provide the main perching, gathering and resting stations.  The juvs are doing learning-feeding but the lerps seem to require a skilful technique so the juvs, try as they might, need to be frequently topped-up by the adults.  It is noteworthy that many birds of other species, mainly wattlebirds and friarbirds, are also attracted to the lerp abundance.  At one point a group of 6 superbs descended to drink at a rain-water puddle.