Two very good days for you Sandra! Today I had two Hobbies circling noisily
around upper Duffy and near the house and chasing a Crested Pigeon. Their
aerial acrobatics were breathtaking at times - diving down and wheeling
around. One of the hobbies actually came and flew right over my head on the
front terrace. I think because it saw me watching it with the bins. It
didn't swoop but was within metres. I wondered if they were young birds as
they weren't really as focused as I have seen adult birds to be? Also 3
Yellow Tailed Blacks appeared to be alarmed by the Hobbies.
Cheers
Jean
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From: sandra henderson
Sent: Thursday, 21 February 2013 2:55 PM
To: Cog line
Subject: Callum Brae today
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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