Wetlands morning

["Philip Veerman" <>]

Martin says the last two Black-shouldered Kites I have seen in the area were also patterned in this way. On face value I am guessing that would be recent. I suggest it would be likely that these are the same two individual birds. If so, it is likely one local breeding event. It would need a wider distribution of occurrences to get interesting results of the proportions etc of that kind. 

 

Philip

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: martin butterfield [
Sent: Sunday, 25 September 2011 12:23 PM
To: Geoffrey Dabb
Cc:
Subject: Re: [canberrabirds] Wetlands morning

Geoffrey's comment about the rufous collars
on the BSKs causes me to recall that the last two Black-shouldered Kites I have
seen in the area were also patterned in this way.  as there seems to have
been something resembling an irruption of this species it might be interesting
to get views on what proportion of the birds are adult or
juvenile/immature.

Martin

On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 12:13 PM, Geoffrey Dabb <> wrote:

More plumage notes from this morning.  Great Egret has plumes, but with yellow bill not yet in breeding condition.  Glossy Ibis still there but not very glossy in dull light.  Whitish mottling suggests non-breeding, perhaps young, bird.  Pacific Heron has maroon breeding colour in wings.  Pair of BSKs not a pair but from rufous collars probably 2 wandering young from last season.