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While doing a rekky about 11.30 this morning
with Jack Holland for a COG bus trip, I heard and then we saw 2 adult Swift
Parrots at Newline. Front paddock, in the area where there is Red Box, up
near the dam and to the right of the dam. At times, they were being
harrassed by honeyeaters, of which there are still quite a few Fuscous,
White-plumed, White-naped and Yellow-faced around. One honeyeater
conveniently chased and flushed them into the open for us and they sat on a dead
tree. The Red Box is budded up and some is flowering, and the Swifts were
in the Red Box trees feeding. They were doing their short sharp contact
type call intermittently, which can be easily missed with lots
of honeyeater activity/calling.
Earlier, I also heard very briefly (one
call) a Swift Parrot in the area around the carpark at Campbell Park
(adjacent to the woodland, where COGites usually park). We did not see a
bird though and it did not call again, so may have been flying
thru.
Would be a good idea to target any areas in the
Majura/Ainslie woodland complex where Red Box is starting to
flower.
cheers
Jenny
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