Alistair and Philip, thank you for these comments,
I will try to use Eremaea as a resource in future in order to provide a
more accurate summary, additional to my usual sources of the chat line and my
own observations, plus the COG woodland reports in the months these have been
conducted. I have contributed to Birdline ACT on several occasions but
only for the rarer/more unusual sightings I’ve made.
My column was written for the Gang-gang cut-off 26 October, ie in the week
before the blitz weekend. I was surprised when the notes I compile for
writing my column only indicated one Leaden Flycatcher record. Based on
recent years I had expected them to start arriving mid to late September –
we had missed them for the Mulligans Flat survey, perhaps because that was done
earlier than usual on 18 September, though none of the woodland surveys done
later picked them up either.
A much later arrival this year seems to be supported by the Eremaea
observations as the first report this spring was on 16 October, though of course
I must acknowledge no reporting system (including my column) may fully represent
the situation as they crucially all depend on the volunteers who lodge data, and
by what they consider is worth reporting.
Jack Holland
From:
Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 4:20 PM
Cc:
Subject: Re: [canberrabirds] Leaden Flycatchers
Jack (and Philip),
I too was surprised by the comment. Please see the following two screen
dumps from Eremaea.
I don't see the point of proselytising Eremaea's virtues to the Canberra
birds audience, but this is the sort of thing that this system does so
well.
Jack, please consider Eremaea as a resource when writing your interesting
piece for Gang Gang. I would be very happy to show you or to help you
collect the data.
Regards
Alastair
From: Philip Veerman <>
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2011 13:11:17 +1100
To: canberrabirds <>
Subject: [canberrabirds] Leaden Flycatchers
I opened the
November Gang-gang today I noted Jack's comment about:
"and
surprisingly only a single report to date of Leaden Flycatcher. My
impression is that these species, particularly the latter, seem so far to
be here in lower numbers than in previous years."
I don't know when that was written but my
recollection (I don't have the data
sheets) was that I had a pair or more of Leaden Flycatchers in several of the
sites that I did on the Blitz weekend. That seemed unremarkable and not worthy
of writing about, it goes in the survey results where it can be considered as
part of the whole, which is the best way.
Also I note
that the "Leaden Flycatcher" on the label of Julian's photo (page 6) is a
Restless Flycatcher.
Philip
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