My main impression after the rain was the number of very large uprooted yellow and apple box trees at the Mt Majura foothills. Some of them have just slumped in the ground so their trunks are almost horizontal. Very different phenomenon then windthrow. I presume Parks managers will find those specimens hazardous and they will be removed despite still being alive and ‘kicking’.
From: Barbara Allan [
Sent: Monday, 5 March 2012 2:18 PM
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Subject: [SPAM][canberrabirds] after the rain
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
