Double-barred Finches and large numbers of Mclays's Swallowtails @ ANBG

[martin butterfield <>]

Being in the vicinity of the Gardens when I received this I went for a stroll around the outside of the rainforest gully but couldn't locate such a cloud of butterflies.  However I did see a few Swallowtails (no idea of species) flying around a flowering Correa laurenceana (I think that is the right spelling) opposite bed 124.  (Unhelpfully, the sign giving the bed number faces away from the road, but it is only a short way up the track from the Cafe near a works depot.)  Possibly as the sun had moved around the cloud seen by Dimitis had moved elsewhere.

Martni

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Dimitris Bertzeletos <> wrote:

Hello all.
 
Just came back from the gardens where I saw 2 Double-barred Finches and around 40 Mclay's Swallowtial and 1 Dainty Swallowtail feeding on a flowering next to the rainforest section (sorry I don't remember the number of the patch). It was pretty spectacular and judgging from the number of unblossomed flowers should continew on for a week unless the butterflies move on...
 
Cheers and good birding.
 
Dimitris

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