Tuross - Flames, YFHEs and Azure Kingfishers

[Julian Robinson <>]

Last weekend at Tuross area -- Cascades Campground and the surrounding
forest down to Wadbilliga Track -- there were some interesting
birds...

- vary many Flame Robins, I think family parties, throughout the
area.  I would have seen 100 of them all up over the two days, which
is around 50 times as many as I've seen before.  Acording to the
atlas they will all be gone from this area (around 1000m) next month -
shows them as being in the area all year round except April, June and
July.   There were also a few Scarlet Robins but not nearly as
many as the Flames.

- I watched the honeyeaters on the river pond on the Sunday
morning.  There were many Yellow-faced HEs, quite a few
White-naped, about 5 White-eared and one pair of New
Hollands.  At first I thought the Yellow-faceds were just
hanging around, they were hawking over the water, and some bathing,
others finding insects in the shrubbery.  Then I noticed that while
some were definitely 'resident' there were others that were moving
through, in larger groups always from the south bank to the north. 
I think there were two quite separate populations, the locals who were
feeding and moving in all directions (about 20 of them from my viewing
point) and the larger number who seemed to be travelling in one
direction, arriving in bursts.  The White-napeds were with the
travelling group.

- a pair of Azure Kingfishers which is notable since there are no
atlas reports of this species in the area.  Also nice following my
coming across half a dozen of them on Coila Creek two weeks ago.

- adult + juvenile Spotted Quail-thrush in the drier country of the upper
Wadbilliga area.

Julian



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