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Hi
Geoffrey,
That
is very nice but with regard to your 2nd last sentence, they are not that
regular at Weddin Mountains either, so that many is surely unusual. By that I
mean if they were regularly there, then the additional 175 km would not be a
lot. I would ordinarily expect them further north or west.
Philip
At the Weddins site at the weekend there was an
unusually large number of White-backed Swallows. The below pic shows 17
but I’ve another with more than 20 perched while yet more were in flight, some
at the limit of visual range, so a reasonable estimate would be 30. The
site is only about 175km away in a straight line, so it is surprising that this
mobile species is recorded so rarely around Canberra. If you only get a
brief view of a distant swallow, these can look very like Tree
Martins.
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