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Hi Harvey.
This is the first year I've seen Y-t HE here.
As far as I can tell from my limited stock of past ABRs, they are not seen in
suburban GBS sites very often - your record from a couple of years ago is one of
only 2 that I can see for the past 5 years (altho I seem to have misplaced my
2006 ABR so am not sure now what is in it).
I've not seen the bird here without the company of
White-plumes (which have been around in varying numbers in my GBS site for most
of the previous 5 weeks). Wednesday last week there were 4 of them with the Y-t
HE, as well as a few Pardalotes of both species. They were all feeding on manna
on the leaves of a eucalypt in my back garden and eventually moved off about
mid-morning.
9 W-plumes and the Y-t HE were back the following
day (Thursday last week) and were all quite happily feeding and chasing in the
eucalypt until a pair of Red Wattlebirds turned up - those 2 then proceeded to
clear the tree of all other birds in about 30 seconds flat! I haven't seen a
White-plume or the Yellow-tufted again til this morning - but I must say they
are a pretty striking bird to have around and very hard to get a decent photo of
because they seem to be never still (and also because I'm not a very adept
photographer!)
Bruce
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