I visited Kambah on Monday at 4pm, to hopefully
see the White-Fronted honeyeater, and was
muttering to myself 'I will never see this bird, it is like finding a needle in
a haystack'. I was looking at the
grevilleas and then turned around (to face East), and there the bird was. It was
hawking insects (they looked like
midges)from a large deciduous tree, flying-out 1-2m from the tree. It did
this at least 15 times. Got great views.
At Uni we did a study on pollination of acacias by bees. It was
commonly accepted that nectar did evaporate during the middle of the day which
was one reason why we didn’t monitor during that time. However, I don’t recall
seeing any real evidence for this theory in the literature I looked
at.
Benj
Whitworth
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