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
To:
Cc:
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
