At the Pinnacle yesterday afternoon.
In the tree plantings (middle reserve): 2 yellow thornbills, 1 red
capped robin female, 1 brown falcon, 2 bronzewings. 7 dusky
woodswallows. Pair of speckled warblers- male fed female multiple times.
5 Tree Martins, 1 yellow faced honeyeater.
In the Stringybark forest: NW corner. 1 Little eagle doing figure 8's
over the forest, presumably trying to scare out some birds. The brown
falcon tried to chase the little eagle. The closest I have seen a
little eagle, it perched right by the path, about 8m away.
3 sitellas, 2 speckled warblers, 5 rainbow lorikeets, 4 black faced
cuckoo shrikes, and on dusk at least 38 dusky woodswallows.
At dusk today I went back and saw 72 dusky woodswallows come in to
roost. Quite amusing to see them all roosting, jammed together. And if
you are thinking 'sure as if', all the dusky woodswallows landed in a
dead tree, which allowed me to count them. A small flock came in later,
so there were almost certainly more. The roost spot is right near the NW
entrance gate to the reserve.
Still plenty of golden whistlers about. A few grey fantails. A pair of
woodducks in a tree hollow being harassed by a pair of galahs.
Species in flower include Hardenbergia, cryptandra, indigofera
australias, a few urn heath, early Nancy, clustered everlasting.
When I was walking to the Pinnacle I saw a brown goshawk being chased by
about 20 dusky woodswallows and 5 magpies- just outside my GBS area,
typical. Had a tawny frogmouth last night though, so I don't always miss
out.
Benj
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