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Scarlet Honeyeater at Goorooyarroo

To: "'Steve Holliday'" <>, <>
Subject: Scarlet Honeyeater at Goorooyarroo
From: "Mark Clayton" <>
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 19:49:59 +1100

An interesting record for the Scarlet Honeyeater. Last week I had a phone call from a lady in Watson asking if the ANWC would be interested in a Scarlet Honeyeater that appeared to have flown into a window in Kingston – I was over to her place in a flash and picked up a fully plumaged male, the first that the ANWC has had from the ACT. It was prepared into a study skin the very next day!

 

Mark

 


From: Steve Holliday [
Sent: Sunday, 28 March 2010 1:31 PM
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Subject: [canberrabirds] Scarlet Honeyeater at Goorooyarroo

 

Hi all

 

Prue and I did the autumn woodland survey at Goorooyarroo this morning in perfect conditions. Highlight was a female Scarlet Honeyeater seen at sites 8 and 9, feeding in flowering mistletoes. It is possible there were 2 different birds involved but as the sites are only a couple of hundred metres apart it was probably just the one. GPS for site 8 is 35 12 39 / 149 10 59. There are many flowering mistletoes at the southern end of the reserve at the moment, keep an eye out if you are in the area.

 

Also saw or heard OB Orioles, Speckled Warblers at 2 sites, a Brown Falcon, Yellow-faced and White-eared Honeyeater, Golden Whistler, Mistletoebird, Aus Grebe with 4 small chicks. No sign of honeyeater migration, in fact surprisingly few wattlebirds and friarbirds present given all the mistletoe flowering.

 

Non-birds included a Shingleback, our first Pasture Day Moths for the season, lots of flowers, and 10 species of butterfly including Spotted and Imperial Jezebels, Chequered Copper and Stencilled Hairstreak.

 

Cheers

 

Steve

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