spent a few hours earlier today wandering around Callum Brae. A few
people lately have commented on the scarcity of little birds there. I
found 3 large mixed flocks of small birds, and I did not go up near
the Mugga Lane fence where a large group of red-browed finches and
silvereyes was hanging out recently. all 3 mixed flocks I saw today
had large (VERY large) numbers of grey fantails (including young
birds) and buff-rumped thornbills. There were also a number of
yellow-rumped thornbills, white-throated gerygones, white-winged
trillers, white-throated treecreepers, fairy wrens, both pardalotes,
and weebills. One young fantail was closely following a treecreeper up
a euc. A single very vocal speckled warbler in one group. almost
nothing in nursery corner, as per my last visit and Elizabeth C's
recent visit.
I did have to search to come up with a dusky woodswallow, and found
only one. Other than that, Aust grebe (couldn't see a nest Julian),
black ducks, a single hardhead, a coot, a little pied cormorant,
which took off from my favourite dam and landed right on top of a
very tall eucalypt, red-browed finches near the large pylons. 36
species all together. missed out on silvereyes (unusual), and haven't
seen a wood duck in there for a while (although there is a group on a
farm dam further along Mugga Lane). The resident grey butcherbird was
preening and appeared very wet, so had been for a bath.
sandra
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