The Bay- Fruit Foxes and Emu Wrens

[Dimitris Bertzeletos <>]

Hello all,

The fruitbats have been present since at least the 3/03/2011 and the Southern Emu Wrens in Cullendulla Creak have had a very good breeding season. I'd say you have 50-60% chance of seeing them on a single visit. Not bad for a secretive species. They can be seen near everywhere along the tracks that aren't adjascent to mangroves (though I have seen them in the mangroves as well...)

Migration has been overall slow. But the coming weeks will tell for certain if the birds have decided to take an inland route.

All the best,

D.

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Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 00:43:12 -0400
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Subject: [canberrabirds] The Bay

Batemans Bay: Watergardens. Lots of flying foxes, which are very large. I think their size suggests grey headed flying foxes, even though they are rarer than little red flying foxes. They are roosting at the Watergardens just behind woolies. Chestnut teal are also there.

At the YHA lots of rainbow lorikeets with dy, YTBC, satin bowerbirds and lots of new holland and little wattlebirds.

Burrewarra Point. Heaps of little wattlebirds, new holland honeyeaters and some spinebills. A sparrowhawk went zooming through. Banksias are not yet flowering except for B marginata. YFH passing over with silvereyes.

Guerilla Bay itself: Right in the town itself I was surprised to flush a wonga pigeon, which then just sat on the lines and watched me while I watched it.

 

gotta go.

Benj

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From: martin butterfield <>
To: Alan Cowan <>
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Sent: Tue, Apr 5, 2011 12:09 pm
Subject: Emu- Wrens at Cullendulla

Alan

I thought this message http://bioacoustics.cse.unsw.edu.au/archives/html/canberrabirds/2011-03/msg00287.html answered your previous query on this topic.

Martin

On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Alan Cowan <> wrote:

Please can anyone direct me to the site at Cullendulla for Emu-Wrens? Thanks, Alan Cowan