Needletails at Carwoola

["martin butterfield" <>]

The first white-throated needletails I have seen at El Rancho Carwoola have just passed by at treetop height.  They came from a clear sky (although there are a few cumulus over the Taliesin Hills in the background).  It was difficult to count them since they came in groups of 2 - 4 and may have been the same birds circling.  I'll write down 4, but there could have been as many as 20.  

 

6 of the local group of dusky woodswallows were circling at a rather higher elevation.

 

Judgng by the number of mozzie bites I acquired watching these birds they could well have flown a bit lower!

 

Martin

 

On 3/8/07, Pedroanddi <> wrote:

Shortly before 5pm a large group of needletails were swooping near the traffic lights on Nettlefold st at the Shell garage. Many were below lamppost level at the bottom of the swoop.

 

Peter Mellor