mystery parrots at the ANBG

["martin butterfield" <>]

On Sunday 8 June I was in the car park of ANBG and I heard a very brief call that I thought could have been Little Lorikeet (not enough certainty to put in a data sheet).  A while later I spoke with the Allen family who were also vsiting the gardens but they hadn't heard them. 

 

We neither heard nor saw any evidence of them last Wednesday on the walk in the gardens, but I suggest that might be the species of Con's birds.

 

Martin

On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Con Boekel <> wrote:

Hi everyone
Twice in the past fortnight I have seen small, fast flying parrots near the entrance to the ANBG and the grassy area immediately to the North of the Entrance. I was neither able to identify them with certainty or to see enough of them to have some sort of guess. I am confident they are not the usuals (Crimsons, Easterns or Red-rumpeds) or the more likely unusuals (Superb Parrots and Rainbow Lorikeets). There are flowering trees, including Ironbarks, in the vicinity. On the first occasion there was one bird and this morning there were two birds. On both occasions the birds were flying roughly Nor nor-east. They did not call.
I am raising this in the hope that somebody else sees them and is able to identify them.
Con

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