In the ANBG late this afternoon, there were still many beautiful
Macleay Swallowtail butterflies beside the rainforest feeding on nectar
- but no Finches in sight
(see also
http://www.anbg.gov.au/anbg/insects/macleay-swallowtail-butterfly.html)
Many usual birds around, but there was one small bird with two bands on
its right leg, that moved too quickly for me to identify (suggestions
welcome please!), or to sight any marks on the bands. It was in the
vicinity of what appeared to be a female Golden Whistler, with a
Yellow-faced Honeyeater feeding on blossom higher up in the canopy.
Robin Hide
martin butterfield wrote:
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 <m("hotmail.com","risingphoenixdim");">>
wrote:
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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