bee eaters, dollarbird, wwt, r songlark,fan tailed cuckoo, BOP.

[Julian Robinson <>]

I concur with Joe's "exotic little secret corner" description, you 
northerners have a charmed existence!  Making my first visit today to 
check out the kingfishers, I was amazed at what was in the 1-2 
hectare section that I spent too long in.  I add to Benj's list the 
fact that the Hooded Robins were breeding with a single dependent 
young, 2m1f trillers, nesting striated pardelotes in the same piece 
of bank as the kingfishers and martins, (and I'm told the bee eaters 
nest further up the creek), willie wagtails with dy, light morph 
Little Eagle, Brown Falcon, WT Eagle, a single Diamond Firetail ... 
it' really is an amazing corner.  Which makes the news about imminent 
development especially sobering.
Pics of the H Robin family are attached, partly as an excuse to show 
off the one of the male flying towards me of which I'm quite 
proud.  And because they certainly won't be there after the new 
housing appears.  NB pics have been tuned to total ~100kb.
Julian

At 09:26 PM 30/10/2007, you wrote:
> 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.

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