Hello
Martin
What
I suspect was the same flock soared overhead around here for a period of 10
minutes around 9.30 am this morning. For part of the time they were slowly
circling in a nearby thermal. I was out in the paddocks with binoculars at
the time and had a good view of the flock and of a few birds that dropped out of
the sky to a height of 100 metres or so. My count stopped when I got
to 100 and there were still many not included. The birds were almost
certainly not Dusky WS and as best I could judge by their appearance and calls
they were probably White-browed WS. If so, I guess it is possible that
there were a few Masked WS in the group.
Cheers
John
From: martin
butterfield [ Sent: Tuesday, 8 November 2011
1:51 PM To: Nicki
Taws
Cc: Subject: Re:
[canberrabirds] Woodswallows X 3
A large (~100 birds), high and
noisy flock of Woodswallows visited Carwoola about 10:15 this morning. As
I was weeding I didn't have my binoculars with me so couldn't guess at the
species. By the rather brief time I had dashed in to gather some optical
assistance the birds had gone. I suspect heading SW towards Captains
Flat. They were also unkind enough to have not even grazed the edge of my
GBS site.
Martin
On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 4:54 PM, Nicki Taws <> wrote:
Flocks of
Woodswallows flew over Cook 3 times today. The first flock at 8.15 was the
largest, maybe 100 or so. Then at 12pm and 4pm smaller flocks of c. 20, although
they were higher and more dispersed so I may not have seen all the birds. All
flocks were heading north-west into the breeze. They had me wondering whether
they were the same birds on some grand 4 hour circuit, heading north-west until
they were sucked up in a thunderstorm vortex and blown back south-east to do it
all again. :-)
