Geoffrey, lovely photo as usual.
Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been seeing at least 15 Diamond Firetail
about half way along the S fenceline between the Chapman Horse paddocks and the
former Narrabundah Hill pine plantation, this morning there were quite a few
immatures amongst them. Possibly been a good breeding season for this
species.
Jack Holland
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Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2011 12:32 PM
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Subject: [canberrabirds] An inelegant smudge
Reluctant though I am to inflict such an inelegant smudge on
you, the below murky squealing blob was snapped late afternoon (Campbell Park
again, I’m afraid) and later resolved itself, if that phrase is not too much of
an exaggeration, into no less than 4 fledgling D Firetails importuning a
parent. The frozen tableau reminds me for some reason of the
well-known bronze of the marines raising the Stars and Stripes at Iwo
Jima. A breeding record anyway.
