Enjoy our exotic little secret corner of Dunlop/Macgregor while you
can Benj. The developers are moving in and the low-cost blocks have
just started selling so all the paddocks south of the horse trail
will soon be filled with land clearers closely followed by little
boxes and non-bird-aware families. It will probably make quite a
difference to the very interesting bird life around there. Over the
blitz weekend I recorded 57 species in I11 - all within less than 2
kilometres of the red-backed kingfishers and most within 1 k - and
some of the regulars just didn't appear (including the dollar bird so
I'm glad you caught it). This town is getting too big - perhaps
it's time for a tree-change!
Joe Barr
At 05:21 PM 30/10/2007, Whitworth, Benjamin - BRS wrote:
..............
Not a blitz site- but Sunday from 2-4pm- Dunlop- 2 red backed
kingfishers (twitch), hooded robin male, ~20 fairy martins flying
into/out of nests, 3 rainbow bee eaters, dollarbird, horsfield's B
cuckoo, pallid cuckoo. For a mediocre looking site the birds are amazing.
Benj Whitworth
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