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’.
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.
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