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At The
Pinnacle (next to Hawker) today there were YF honeyeaters on the move, mainly
single birds, but they did seem to be on a mission. A couple of white napes,
also.
Interesting to me was the large number of grey
fantails, every direction you looked you would see at least 5 individuals, so in
a 2 ha patch there were often more than 20 birds.
I also
saw my first scarlet robin male for the season and a young male and female
rufous whistler almost alongside a female and juvenile golden
whistler.
Other
things interesting to me was my first sighting of a mistletoe bird and on
Saturday a butcherbird and a striped skink.
In
Weetangera today about 20 silvereyes passed over, heading SW. Plus some spotted
pardalotes were about.
Also
at The Pinnacle were groups of brilliant bright yellow dragonflies, about 4cm
long, in the stringybark forest. One patch with 5, another with 3, another
with 2. Nowhere near water, I dont know what they were doing
there.
At the
dam there were also the red damselflies and blue damselflies, the chunky yellow
dragonflies that are dull yellow and about 4cm and the large yellow and black
striped dragonflies (~7cm). So quite a few, does anyone know a good website with
local dragonflies??.... OK, I just found this site- seems good- http://www.geocities.com/brisbane_dragons/index.html.
Not
many plants in flower, just Cassinia aculeata (??). Cauliflower bushes (Cassinia
longifolia) and Bursaria spinosa (Blackthorn) are seeding, wallaby grass, wire
grass, Panicum effusum, and some red grass are all seeding. Unfortunately the
weed Verbascum (Aarons rod) are about to seed and Briar rose have very ripe
fruits.
Benj
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