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Painted Honeyeater - Yankee Hat

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Subject: Painted Honeyeater - Yankee Hat
From: Harvey Perkins <>
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2013 13:05:00 +1100
Hi all,
 
Just back from Yankee Hat carpark in Namadgi National Park, where Karen and I watched a female Painted Honeyeater for a little over five minutes from 10:20 h this morning. She was foraging on dead branches of an old eucalypt at the edge o fthe forest just to the east of the carpark. Good views in full sunshine. Didn't hear any vocalisation. Several times she was harassed by a Fuscous Honeyeater which clearly didn't like her being around.
 
Other highlights included a Swamp Harrier, low cruising wedgie and three Kestrels; and lots of breding (Tree Martins and Striated Pardalotes entering nest hollows with young, Leaden Flycatcher and Black-faced Cuckoo-shrikes feeding dependent young, immature Buff-rumped Thornbills and Striated Pardalotes).
 
Missed several of my target birds, though, including Diamond Firetail, Southern Whiteface, Brown Treecreeper and Hooded Robin.
 
Tree Martins were common in a few places along the way - don't recall seeing so many about in the ACT before, and obviously quite a few were young birds from this season.
 
Harvey
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