Mulligan's Flat - Banded Lapwing, Brown Treecreeper, Superb Parrot

[martin butterfield <>]

A timely email to which I can comment that the next mid-week walk (March 17) will be to Mullies - entering through the Horse Park entrance which is now accessible to a 2WD vehicle.  I'll mention this in Gang-gang and put up details in a posting to this group closer to the date including a map showing the exact (more or less location of the gate.

Martin

On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 2:17 PM, con <> wrote:

Hi everyone

Mulligan's felt just so moist and earthy today. Great what a bit of rain will do. There are still 5 Banded Lapwing, which means the three chicks are surviving well. Still in the same territory. The other highlight were three Brown Treecreepers (more or less together) which were shortly afterwards joined by a fourth Brown Treecreeper. A pair of Galahs were inspecting a hollow - will the rain trigger another breeding round? There were many flowering eucs and much flowering mistletoe which had attracted more Noisy Friarbirds than I have seen before in Mulligans (plus a lone Superb Parrot feeding on the flowering mistletoe). There was lots of frog spawn in lots of new surface water. Good luck to the little blighters - they have had a tough decade.

Con

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