At 9.20 there were eleven of them in the Flowering Tree, Preening Tree
vicinity.
While most of the flights seem to be between the flowering trees, some
trees immediately adjacent thereto, and the Preening Tree, some trees
immediately adjacent thereto, and a group of Yellow Box around 400m to
the NE of the Flowering Tree, this morning a flock of around 4 Swifties
arrived at the Flowering Tree from a Southerly direction. So it might be
worth while keeping a weather eye out for them in that general direction.
On a side, but nevertheless apposite, note this morning, onsite, a
person conversant with eucalypts, opined that the tall straight
flowering tree - which some observers had believed perhaps not to be a
Yellow Box - was indeed a Yellow Box but one having a different form
from 'our' Canberra Yellow Box. I must admit that when searching for
Steve's 'flowering Yellow Box', I at first walked straight past a
certain tree with a straight, clean bole and with bark that was vaguely
reminiscent of E. camaldulensis.
On another side note, a couple of Superbs flew past the group of Birdos
and Photos this morning and did not rate a second glance. How the mighty
have fallen!
On yet another side note, a passing Birdo told me that one of the issues
facing the Swifties in their existential struggle, is the Sugar Glider.
Apparently, someone has improved on Nature by importing the gliders to
Tasmania. Apparently, these charismatic minivertebrates are small enough
to enter Swifties' nest holes and eat the young and the eggs. I don't
know. I am, for all I know, rumour mongering.
Regards
Con
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