I apologise for the delayed posting. We are still without internet
access at home following the recent storms.
On Saturday morning I visited the productive wet forest section of
Wark's Rd concentrating my search efforts on Antechinus and
Honeyeaters. By 10:00 there was a lot of activity in the warm
sunshine and the total lack of air movement made it very easy to find
birds in the foliage.
At 11:00 a large group (50+) of honeyeaters was moving down the
creekline and crossing the road through some dead tress. They were
using the dead timber to perch and hawk for insects. The flock was
about 80% White-naped Honeyeaters and the rest mainly Yellow-faced
Honeyeaters. A strikingly different honeyeater perched in the dead
twigs of a low branch almost above my head. With a large blackish
bill the bird was essentially plain shades of olive-brown except for
a bright greenish-yellow panel in the folded wings and a small yellow
spot behind the eye. It crossed the road and provided several more
views before it moved on with the flock. I identified it as a Brown
Honeyeater, although I acknowledge the fact that the ACT is hundreds
of kilometres away from the normal range of this species so it
doesn't seem all that likely.
Several hours of further searching on Sunday morning failed to
relocate the bird. No sign of Lewin's Honeyeater on either day.
--
Dr P.J. Milburn
Technical Specialist
ANU ACRF Biomolecular Resource Facility
John Curtin School of Medical Research
Australian National University
GPO Box 334
Canberra ACT 0200
'Phone +61 2 6125 4326
FAX +61 2 6125 9533
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