Philip's White-fronted Honeyeater

[Julian Robinson <>]

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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