An insect irruption

[martin butterfield <>]

This afternoon I found a flock of mixed woodswallows over my GBS site at Carwoola.  The little blighters were not polite enough to land and seemed to be getting enough energy to fly rather fast and in swooping circles.  My best guess was 10 White-browed, 10 Masked and 20 Duskies.  3 Black-faced Cuckoo-shrikes also passed by.A few hundred metres further up Whiskers Creek was (what would be described if they were raptors as) a kettle of Welcome Swallows and tree martins - at least 100 of each.  Presumably a huge insect hatch had occurred somewhere in the neighbourhood.

Observing this from much higher up, and using much less energy, were three Wedgetailed Eagles.