Re: Lost Camera Hood at Campbell Park

[Tun Pin ONG <>]

Hi,

Please do not look my misplaced camera hood anymore as our very helpful fellow birder Steve Wallace has found it and I managed to get it from him in a day's time since I lost it. 

Many thanks to Steve. What a lovely birding community in Canberra!

I still went to Campbell Park again before picking up my camera hood. Nothing new list but I observed a male White-browed Woodswallow catching a hard shell grub (cicada's nymph?) on the ground. As the food was too hard and too big to swallow in one go, it tried to "hammer" it on the ground and then later put it on the log. After extracting some soft interior body part from the prey, it managed to finally swallow the remainder, including the shell. 

See the first 3 photos from the link where one shows the "hammering" the grub.

https://www.flickr.com/search/?tags=campbellpark&sort=relevance&user_id=34307818%40N08

Best regards,

Tun-Pin ONG

On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 1:06 AM, Tun Pin ONG <m("gmail.com","copsychus");" target="_blank">> wrote:

Hi,

Today late afternoon I visited Campbell Park and accidentally left behind my camera hood (for my 400mm lens). It is black in colour and has the size of an unopened toilet roll.

If anyone found it could you please contact me. Thank you.

Birdwise, the area around the horse gate was filled with White-browed Woodswallows attempting to nest and one brief glimpse of copulation.

A few male White-winged Trillers were very vocal in the area and a female too.

A cyclist birder showed me a lone Masked Swallow and a few Brown-headed Honeyeaters (mostly juveniles). He also found a Diamond Firetail.

Other birds saw are:-

BFCS - many, mostly juveniles

Olive-backed Oriole

Dollarbird

Common Bronzewing

A pair of Leaden Flycatchers

Thanks and regards,

Tun Pin Ong (m("gmail.com","copsychus");" target="_blank">)

0404058118