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Philip's White-fronted Honeyeater

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Subject: Philip's White-fronted Honeyeater
From: Julian Robinson <>
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 00:08:59 +1000
I must have missed Owen by a whisker, having watched Philip's bird at 1300 for 20 minutes, then again at 1510 for 45 minutes.  It is remarkably faithful to that Grevillea and the large deciduous tree, spending 98% of the time I was there in one or the other.  The remainder of the time was mostly spent chasing other birds out of the Grevillea - a Spinebill, several Silvereyes and two White-naped Honeyeaters.  I heard it only twice, a peep and a double chirrup is as well as I can describe them :(

It's a champion subject, both times appearing within a few minutes of the start of my vigil at The Bush, and content to carry out a variety of bird activities in front of the observer - mostly preening, feeding and chasing.

My short time there reinforced my view that I have a boring GBS site.  I've never seen more than 19 species in a week at my place and I saw 16 in an hour at Philip's front gate, including Bowerbirds, Grey Shrike-thrush, 4 kinds of parrots, a raptor and the honeyeaters.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ozjulian/768994536/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ozjulian/768995732/

Julian

At 03:32 PM 10/07/2007, Owen Holton wrote:
Philip's White-fronted Honeyeater was still there at 2.35pm today.  As I reached the path it flew from 'the' grevillea to the large deciduous tree in Hiles Place where it stayed for the 15 minutes I was there.  No calling during this time.
 
Owen Holton.
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