A "me too" moment - more Yellow-faced Honeyeaters- ? cold cooma weather

[Kathy Cook <>]

Not a Canberra suburb but a small flock (20+) of YFHEs yesterday over our house at Wamboin, Jack.

Kathy 

On 22/03/2019 6:00 pm, Jack & Andrea Holland wrote:

Thanks Jean, very interesting.  I’m not sure how widespread this was but it could be the reason we’re seeing some now.  I recall the forecast is for a warm dry autumn, so it will be interesting to see if there’s a gap once these come through, my understanding is that there is potentially a very wide catchment for the HEs that come through, including well into Victoria. 

 

I’ve now checked my Gang-gang column for the past 3 years and around at the time of writing the April one (about 25 March 2016, 27 March 2017 and 28 March 2018) there had been few if any migrating flocks reported, so they’re definitely at least a week early this year, perhaps caused by your event (Page has now been added to the list of suburbs).

 

Jack Holland

 

From: Jean Casburn

Sent: Friday, March 22, 2019 3:48 PM

To: 'Martin Butterfield' ; 'Jack & Andrea Holland'

Cc: 'COG List' ; m("bigpond.com","chollop7");" moz-do-not-send="true">'Mark Clayton'

Subject: RE: [canberrabirds] A "me too" moment - more Yellow-faced Honeyeaters- ? cold cooma weather

 

Last weekend Cooma had a severe hailstorm which was similar to a snowstorm on the ground. Perhaps the cold temperatures have given the honeyeaters a false start – or the winter will be earlier than usual?

Jean

 

From: Martin Butterfield [m("gmail.com","martinflab");">]
Sent: Friday, 22 March, 2019 03:24 PM
To: Jack & Andrea Holland
Cc: COG List; Mark Clayton
Subject: Re: [canberrabirds] A "me too" moment - more Yellow-faced Honeyeaters

 

The birds have probably worked out that habitat reduction burning season is almost here, so are getting in early.

 

Martin Butterfield

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

 

 

On Fri, 22 Mar 2019 at 14:53, Jack & Andrea Holland <> wrote:

Very interesting Mark, I had three coming through my place this morning
after having had very few for a long while - I usually just get some at the
peak of their migration season.

They've also started quite a bit earlier than I expected, and have been
observed quite widely, with from 20 March reports from Gigerline, Florey,
Kambah, Duffy, Fadden, Goorooyaroo, Higgins, Weston and EPIC, in addition to
Kaleen and Chapman.

Not sure why given we haven't yet had anything close to the usual triggers
of low overnight temperatures (they're still in the mid teens) and clear
skies.

Jack Holland

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Clayton
Sent: Friday, March 22, 2019 12:00 PM
To:
Subject: A "me too" moment - more Yellow-faced Honeyeaters

For the first time in a long time I had at least 12 Yellow-faced
Honeyeaters fly through my GBS site in Kaleen. Many years ago they were
a regular visitor through the garden while on migration but then the
movements stopped and I am not sure why.

Mark


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