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Had 570 Yellow-faced
Honeyeaters pass over our house this morning from 9:25-9:30, 500 of them in a
continuous stream in the first 2 minutes. Heading ENE in a hurry to get
somewhere fast. Most I've seen over together in Chapman for a long
time. Amazingly apart from a couple of groups of 10-15 over 2 hours later
no other YFHE seen or heard during a day's gardening.
Later 2 Wedge-tailed Eagles
flew high over our GBS site from Cooleman Ridge, heading towards Civic, again a
rare sight.
Coupled with the first Flame
Robin for the autumn/winter on the ridge earlier, and up to 7 red-rumped
parrots in the GBS site later, it was a pretty good day where birding was only
incidental. The latter have been a feature in the garden etc over the
past couple of months, while they have been present occasionally in previous
years, this has always been just flying over/through, or only a
short rest in a tree before flying on. Recently they have often been
seen or heard for most of the day.
Jack
Holland
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