Honeyeaters streaming in waves over Duffy from Narrabubdah Hill - and 6 White-throated Needletail

[Martin Butterfield <>]

There have been low numbers of Yellow-faced Honeyeaters moving through Carwoola most of today.  In Civic this morning a flock of 30+ were moving East past the Lakeside.  They even did the out and back maneuver which used to be evident at Point Hut before the suburbs wrecked that site.

We spent the weekend at Mallacoota where the main movers seemed to be White-naped Honeyeaters.  Also evident was a flock of 12 White-headed Pigeons of which at least 4 were immatures, sitting on powerlines.

Martin 

Martin Butterfield

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On 30 March 2016 at 14:52, casburnj <> wrote:

Around 9.15am Yellow-faced Honeyeater in groups of about 40 streamed from Narrabundah Hill and over my GBS and over Duffy.   I then went up the hill at 10am to see what was happening and walked all the way around from the tank end. On the South Western side, similar movements of YFHE were welcomed by lots of very noisy Pied Currawong, quite a few Black-faced Cuckoo Shrike, 1 Brown Goshawk, and 1 Australian Hobby.  On the north western side of the hill about 6 similar flocks of YFHE passed from the direction of Mount Stromlo into the trees on the slope of the hill, where they appeared to be feeding and resting before moving on. Movements appeared to cease about 12.15pm

 

All in all a very worthwhile 3 hours spent.  35 species including 2 Scarlet Robin, 3 Dusky Woodswallow and 1 Grey Currawong (heard).

 

6 White-throated Needletail were hawking high over my GBS then over Duffy Hindmarsh Drive and Stirling.

Jean