The other day I reported Yellow-faced Honeyeaters moving on a broad
front through O'Connor and Turner. By the next day there were none
and there have been none since.
regards
Con
On 3/04/2012 9:39 AM, martin butterfield wrote:
>From reading Jack's column in the latest Gang-gang readers may
be interested to note that there are still good numbers of
White-throated Gerygons tinkling away around here (Carwoola).
Observers on the Hoskinstown plain have commented that Flame
Robins have turned up there. (For some strange reason I have
never recorded one on our property which has enough grassland for
them to be present.) Frances and I saw a couple of male Flame
Robins in Tallaganda (about 1100m elevation) together with a
Fan-tailed Cuckoo, so there are still birds up fairly high.
The Yellow-faced Honeyeater movement - which is usually very weak
through my GBS site - is happening but the birds seem to be
feeding up rather than rushing off. I have spent a small amount
of time studying a heavily flowering stringybark which the birds
are frequenting and it appears that most of their feeding is on
insects - both imagos and larvae - which they are capturing ni the
blossoms and foliage, rather than the nectar per se.
Martin
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