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Well the perfect score has been ruptured. There
have been at least 5 people who have been to see the WFHO without success
in the last week. Although I think up till then it was as good an opportunity as
anyone gets with a 100% success rate until the weather started to warm and the
bird became more varied in its routine. I saw it every day except one from 5
July to 31 August. Some of my best film of it was in the last few days. On the
weekend all I got was a quick glimpse of what may have been the WFHO fly into
the Photinia but we couldn't find it again, one call that I was pretty sure was
it but wasn't seen. On Sunday afternoon I'm pretty sure it flew over the house
going south at tree top height. The shape, size, pattern and movements were
right but it wasn't a good view and I had not seen it fly high above
before.
I have over an hour of film of it that needs to be
edited down a lot. It shows a good variety of behaviours and includes the calls.
Geoffrey Dabb has done a 5 minute DVD of it that has better resolution images
than most of mine (with a better quality camera) although unfortunately a lot is
of the bird on the day it was tired and trying to sleep (on the first Sunday).
Both (mine after editing) or Geoffrey's are I think suitable to show at a COG
meeting. Also many members have photos of it. Is anyone interested to see
these?
Philip
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