I'm not often right ...

[Martin Butterfield <>]

... but I was certainly wrong that time!  Sorry about that.

My post about Brush Cuckoo and Leaden Flycatcher turns out to have been in error on both counts.  I didn't have my bins with me on the dog walk but since returning have relocated the birds in question.  The juvenile Cuckoo was in fact a Pallid Cuckoo

.. and the hosts - extremely busy birds - were Yellow-faced Honeyeaters​.  They were silent, unlike the Leaden Flycatchers in the vicinity!

Martin Butterfield

http://franmart.blogspot.com.au/

On 20 January 2018 at 09:27, Martin Butterfield <> wrote:

as we returned from this morning's dog walk I was aware that the Leaden Flycatchers in my GBS site were making more noise than usual.  then a darkish, striated cuckoo flew off accompanied by by a flycatcher.  After the cuckoo landed a second flycatcher arrived and fed it.  noting the usual host species and the look of the bird I believe the cuckoo was a Brush Cuckoo: they have been around the area this year.

Also there has at last been a good use made of DNA analysis.

Martin Butterfield

http://franmart.blogspot.com.au/