| Good numbers northside today too. They've been flitting over all day, and I counted 60 in less than a minute while I was eating lunch outside. Not sure I've ever seen quite this many over my place (Florey) before. Sounded like there were a few White-naped HEs among the YFHEs. John On 31/03/2015, at 2:18 PM, Wayne Gregson wrote:
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
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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
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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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