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Aroma du Mulligan's

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Subject: Aroma du Mulligan's
From: "Shaun Bagley" <>
Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2006 18:15:42 +1100
After the rain last night Mulligan's Flat was wonderfully aromatic this morning with little fresh carpets of blossom under the flowering gums.
 
Amongst highlights in Mulligan's a party (10+) of White-throated Needtails swooping low over the canopy.
 
 A pair of Leaden Flycatchers with a dependent young so recently out of the nest (during the night?) that it could hardly fly. Amazingly cryptic amongst the eucalypt debris. Had it not called would never have seen it.
 
Also seemed to be an unusual number of Bronzewings evident, flushing one or two every hundred metres or so.
 
With regard to Geoffrey Dabb's "Unusual year?" post of 21/12 found 2 nesting colonies of White-browed Woodswallows right along the road from Mulligan's to Sutton. Coming from Sutton, the first is where the gravel road begins after E. Tallagandera (sp?) Rd. between the yellow Gravel Road sign and the red and white Water Bores ad. Second is just down the hill from Mulligan's where there are pines on each side of the road and yellow box in profous bloom much to the delight of the bees. Stopped the car because I heard screeching Little Lorikeets (20-30) in the canopy but found myself under "attack" from White-brows choosing an alternate target to the Sulphur-Crested Cockatoo they were harrying.
 
Merry Christmas
 
Shaun
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