I saw several small groups of white-throated needletails on Sunday
8/3/15 - some above the Monaro Highway north of Cooma, others between
Berridale and Dalgety (late morning) and again between Maffra and Cooma
(about 2:45 pm). It was warm and sunny on Sunday, reasonably still in
the morning but quite windy in the mid-afternoon.
Alison Mackerras
On 11/03/15 16:02, calyptorhynchus . wrote:
I saw four WTNT above the trees on Warks Road nr the junction with New
Chums Road (-35.379544, 148.837265) today at around 1pm. I could have
sworn that one did a finsbury flop as it came up one side of the ridge
and and turned back down the other.
Thought about these, there were no fronts crossing the ACT today and the
weather was clear and hot, though quite windy. I almost always see a few
WTNT when I go up into the Brindabellas in January, February and March.
Perhaps some bands of WTNT just lurk up there all the time in those
three months, and use the updrafts and wind currents around the peaks
instead of cruising storm fronts like other parties do.
Also seen up there: Gang-gangs, Crescent Honeyeater, Yellow-faced
H'eater (many), White-naped H'eater (few), Flame and Rose Robin (many
and 1), Rufous Fantail, and I heard Lyrebird, Pilotbird and YTBC.
On the way up (Mt Franklin Road) I saw a couple of parties of Spotted
Quailthrush with male, female and young.
--
John Leonard
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