I do hope some of you at least were able to get out this morning and go birding. My local patch (The Pinnacle NR Hawker) was simply great! Most of the regulars present: thornbills, finches, whiteface, treecreeper, robins, frogmouths, whistlers, pardalotes, scrubwrens, choughs etc etc but also a stream of passage migrants, incl Grey and Rufous Fantails, Leaden Flycatchers, a Horsfield’s Bronze-cuckoo. More male Scarlet Robins had come down from the mountains and were engaged in calling competitions with the resident birds. And here in the garden the koel chick and at least one parent are still present and knocking off my pears. b
