The white-plumes have been song-flighting for about 4 weeks, attention-getting
displays of minor skylarkery, the more surprising as the small singer emerges
from and returns to a concealing tree
From: Barbara Allan
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Sent: Wednesday, 19 August 2009 5:37 PM
To: 'COG List'
Subject: [canberrabirds] more returns
Two
Dusky Woodswallows at Lake Ginninderra peninsula this pm, the first I’ve
seen there since late autumn. No reed-warblers yet, unless they were skulking
quietly out of the breeze. Much felling of dead and dying timber underway.
White-plumed Honeyeaters particularly vocal. Quite a lot of mistletoe in flower
but few honeyeaters save the resident Red Wattlebirds and White-plumes. b
