Blue faced honeyeater in Holbrook [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[David McDonald <>]

Thanks for sharing that observation with the list, Jeanie.

While doing the Swift Parrot/Regent Honeyeater survey the weekend before 
last, in our usual haunts in the Tarcutta area, we saw a Blue-faced 
Honeyeater in the Kyeamba TSR (between Tarcutta and Holbrook) and then 3 
feeding in a grevillea in Tarcutta itself. I was also surprised to see 
them there too, but checking the Birds Australia atlas find that it is 
within - albeit near the SE edge of - their regular range. Reporting 
rates in that area are low.
David

 wrote:
> During a stretch break at Holbrook on the way back to Canberra late on
> Saturday afternoon, I saw a blue faced honeyeater.  I was standing near the
> Ladies toilet (to the north of the submarine) and had a good 10+ seconds to
> view the bird in the branches of a nearby deciduous tree, before it flew
> northwards and into Holbrook suburbia.
>
> This was a first sighting for me.  I recall the interest that a BFHE
> aroused when it tried to enrol at ANU last winter, but I am not sure if a
> sighting in Holbrook is just as interesting or to be completely expected.
> (Maybe it had lowered its expectations and enrolled in the Holbrook TAFE).
> Either way it made the drive home more pleasant!
>
> Cheers
>
> Jeanie Bruce
>
> (my first posting, after a couple of years of reading everyone else's)
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