Several members of the Birdlife Photography Group walked from Kambah
Pool most of the way to Red Rocks Gorge this morning. We saw many, many
migrating Yellow-faced Honeyeaters on the move - some so close that we
could have reached out and plucked them from the air... presumably
exactly what a pair of Collared Sparrowhawks had in mind. One honeyeater
flew so close that, literally I could feel the air movement from its
wing beat. There was a leavening of White-naped Honeyeaters mixed with
the Yellow-faced Honeyeaters. Several flocks of Silvereyes were moving
both upstream and downstream. Two White-faced Honeyeaters and a Scarlet
Robin had joined one several mixed flocks. Photographic highlights
including a female Sparrowhawk posing in good light on a bare branch,
four very young Red-browed Finches preening, and some Yellow-faced
Honeyeaters which paused for a breather in a dead pine at high eye
height and down sun from the assembled shutterbugs. The non avian
highlight was a diurnal wombat.
regards
Con
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