canberrabirds

singing honeyeater

Subject: singing honeyeater
From: Yarden Oren <>
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 05:58:21 +1100

Singing HE VERY easy to locste this morning at 5:45 am. Very vocal and on display  in shrubs and trees just to the west of the turnoff to Leverrier st, along dam edge.

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From: Marnix Zwankhuizen <>
Date: 19/12/2013 7:48 PM (GMT+10:00)
To: Noel Luff <>
Cc:
Subject: Re: [canberrabirds] singing honeyeater


Hi All

I finally located the Singing Honeyeater at 7:30 this evening after half an hour searching. It was making its 'brrrrt' call plus other gurgling noises from a small shrub in the grassland across the road from the dam. It flew across Leverrier St to a wattle where it perched on an exposed branch and continued to call for a few minutes. I then lost it when it flew across to a eucalypt at the SE corner of the dam.

Thanks to others for reporting the bird.

Cheers
Marnix

> On 19 Dec 2013, at 4:21 pm, Noel Luff <> wrote:
>
> following up on an Eremaea posting regarding a sighting of the Singing Honeyeater at the ASI wetlands beside Ginninderra Drive I caught a brief glimpse of it in pursuit of a White-plumed Honeyeater.

> It was initially in a group of small eucalypts at the south-western corner of the pond(s). I was attracted to it by its occasional "brrrrittt" call. As I arrived at the afore mentioned trees two honeyeaters took off one chasing the other across the pond into the casuarinas on the Ginninderra Drive side. To my mind the slightly larger one was doing the chasing. I had previously seen a WPHE in the general vicinity.

> Despite a search I could not relocate the bird(s).

> This was about 3:30 this arvo





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