Took these photos of a White-faced heron feeding around the carcass of an EGR on the Kings Hwy one morning a few months ago. You will notice the European wasp in one of the photos - it can be seen flying in front of the heron's face. The bird was feeding there for a few mornings running.
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Meg Doepel
> Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 19:47:19 +1000
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> Subject: Re: [canberrabirds] Seasonalish and other observations
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> Coincidentally to Martin/Frances' ob of the kooka feeding on a roo
> carcase, this morning near the Bot Gdns I saw what appeared to be a
> flock of ravens on a very decomposed dead roo by the road. Instead it
> was a mob of choughs, presumably doing the same thing - ie feeding on
> those already feasting on the remains. A single raven seemed to be most
> put out by it all.
>
> IF
>
> martin butterfield wrote:
> > This morning there was a steady stream of Yellow-faced Honeyeaters
> > over my GBS site. As is usual for the site the groups were small: 3 -
> > 5 birds, heading SE towards the Hoskinstown Plain. Mid-morning I went
> > for a waddle to Captains Flat Road (effectively running three sides of
> > a rectangle, totalling 4km) and similar movements ocurred throughout
> > the "run".
> >
> > Three Grey-shrike Thrushes appeared to be, very noisily, addressing
> > issues of teritoriality in the cypress trees adjacent to our house.
> > The interaction was occurring low in the trees and on the ground.
> >
> > Later in the day, while I was perched on our roof 5 Dusky Woodswallows
> > appeared. This was a first for my GBS site this year, and an addition
> > to my all-time gutter-cleaning list. They were hawking for insects
> > and slowly moved off to the NE. Before they had cleared the boundary
> > of the site another group of 20 of the same species emerged from a
> > neighbour's Yellow Box and entered the site, so the tally was 25! The
> > later flock also moved off NE and, interestingly in view of Geoffrey
> > Dabb's comment to my post about migration of this species, well below
> > the height of the trees on our block. This may be an accident of
> > topography if they were following the course of Whiskers Creek.
> >
> > In mid afternoon we were returning from Queanbeyan and Frances noticed
> > a Laughing Kookaburra perched on an ex-kangaroo beside Captains flat
> > Road. While it would be tempting to say the bird was adding carrion
> > to its diet, a review of the appropriate entry in HANZAB suggests it
> > was probably munching on the invertebrates (and possibly reptiles)
> > availing themselves of this food resource.
> >
> > Martin
> >
> >
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