Funnily enough, I sighted 2 Rainbow Lorikeets in east Kambah on Thursday, and exactly 4 this morning.
The 2 on Thursday were flying high towards the Mannheim shops. And this morning when I saw 4, they were heading in the opposite direction from that Mannheim St area down towards Taylor Primary or somewhere. I've seen individuals before on numerous occasions in the same area, but never pairs etc.
- 2 Gang-Gang's heading up to Mt Taylor (rarely seen in this particular location)
- Plenty of Eastern Spine Bills getting chased by Wattle Birds (its that time of year ...)
- Tawny Frogmouth just after dark at the base of a power poll near Bissenberger Cr (until it saw me and flew up on to the power line)
> Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 10:44:58 +1100
> From:
> To:
> Subject: Re: [canberrabirds] Rainbow Lorikeets in Higgins
>
> I saw four Rainbow Lorikeets earlier this morning in one of the Eucalypt
> street trees in Hovell St in Griffith, with a couple of them taking
> turns to investigate a nesting hollow in the tree.
>
> On 26/03/13 10:27, Paul T. wrote:
> > Howdy All,
> >
> > Well, a third posting by me to the list in 24 hours or so. Yet
> > another unusual sighting here in my garden..... Rainbow Lorikeets, 2
> > of them, only the second time I have ever seen or heard them here.
> > The last time was June 2010 and was a couple of sightings over a
> > couple of days in a tall Eucalypt across the road..... this time they
> > are in a different Eucalypt in a neighbours place. I wonder if they
> > will start to become more common here or whether these were isolated
> > occurrences?
> >
> > Any updates from anyone on how the Hawker population is growing (or
> > not)? Are they starting to spread out further?
>
>
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