Good afternoon all,
A quick question – are the White-browed Woodswallows
still breeding in Mulligan’s Flat and if so where please? Could you give
a precise description of the locality so that Leo and a German student can go
and have a look at them. Are there any Masked Woodswallows mixed in with them?
Please reply directly to Leo.
On another matter, I had a phone call from a former
work colleague earlier in the week and he asked about White-eared Honeyeaters.
He lives at Karabar (Queanbeyan) ands all of a sudden has had an influx (15 –
20) of the honeyeaters in his garden when there were none around “for
years”. He said there is nothing flowering locally and no obvious water.
He believes the birds were all adult and possibly males from the way they were
behaving. Has anyone else experienced this? I am not aware of White-eared
Honeyeaters being recorded in this sort of concentration “as a group”,
even when banding at water in hot weather.
Thanks for any comments.
Mark
