canberrabirds

YFHEs out in force

To: Philip Veerman <>
Subject: YFHEs out in force
From: Martin Butterfield <>
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 16:50:57 +1100
This afternoon we went for a ride along Briars-Sharrow Rd.  

On the way East we were escorted by a flock of Yellow-faced Honeyeaters flitting from hawthorn to hawthorn.  They seemed to increase in numbers as we went along ending with about 100 birds.  They eventually - at the top of a small rise after about 3km - seemed to move off to the South east (ie towards Tallaganda National Park).  

On the return trip much the same was found, although we were going against the tide.  Some of the birds only swerved away from us at the last minute.  Again my guess was about 100 birds.

Martin


On 31 March 2015 at 14:33, Philip Veerman <> wrote:
I had 3 over my house one day last week, a flock of about 10 on Sunday. I went outside today at about mid day. Whilst hanging one thing on wash line and going to my car (about 2 minutes) a flock of 80 to 100 flew over my home, all flying south, but I had been hearing them before that.
 
Philip
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Wayne Gregson [
Sent: Tuesday, 31 March 2015 2:18 PM
To: Jack & Andrea Holland; 'COG List'
Subject: Re: [canberrabirds] YFHEs out in force

Jack
 
I ran around Narrabundah Hill around noon today and up near the top there were literally 100’s of YFH flying over!!
 
cheers
 
Wayne
 
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Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2015 1:11 PM
To:
Subject: Re: [canberrabirds] YFHEs out in force
 
Thanks Sandra, what time was this?  I did a rekkie on Narrabundah Hill from 9:00 to 10:15 and didn’t see or hear a single honeyeater migrating.
 
I expect these may be on the route that goes over the top of Mt Taylor, a few years ago I found a group of 300+ doing that near the summit.  Readers may like to check it out.
 
Jack Holland
 
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Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2015 12:40 PM
To:
Subject: [canberrabirds] YFHEs out in force
 
just drove back from ANBG to Tuggeranong along the parkway, and about 1km short of Kambah there were huge numbers of Yellow-faced Honeyeaters crossing over the parkway - hundreds in view flying over in a constant stream - I never saw the legendary migrations of years ago along the river, but that is just what it must have looked like
 
and the 2 musk lorikeets I've reported on and off flying over my place in Wanniassa and occasionally sitting in my gum tree are still making an almost daily appearance - almost guaranteed somewhere between 7 and 9 each morning - this morning it was a flyover at 8.30, just after six rainbow lorikeets had flown over twice
 
sandra h

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