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Yesterday morning at Belconnen golf course, I found
seven Yellow-rumped Thornbills feeding on the ground together with 14
Red-browed Finches, four House Sparrows, six Blue Wrens, two White-browed
Scubwrens and a male Common Blackbird that had a large splotch of white plumage
on his mantle.
Close by, up in the shrubbery, 'bout 2.5 metres above the ground, I
saw what I think was a female Scarlet Robin, about five Spotted Pardalotes,
'bout the same number of Buff-rumped Thornbills and three Weebills. Previously,
I've had few positive identifications of Weebills, none of them from Belconnen,
and they've always been feeding way up in the high foliage.
While driving home, along Spofforth Street, Holt, we saw about twenty
Sulphur-crested Cockatoos feeding on the ground together with three Little
Corellas just inside the golf course fence.
John K. Layton
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