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Flocks of smallish birds flying NW along Constitution Ave, Reid this aft

To: Nick Payne <>
Subject: Flocks of smallish birds flying NW along Constitution Ave, Reid this afternoon
From: Martin Butterfield <>
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2019 04:32:19 +0000
I empathise with Janet!  There was a small flock flying down Alinga St this morning - so possibly her flock doing a second lap.  They ducked into a oak, still with plenty of leaves, and I could get no sense at all of what they were.  About House Sparrow sized and the bits I could see were brownish but they weren't behaving like sparrows.


On Sun, 16 Jun 2019 at 14:25, Nick Payne <> wrote:
We saw a closely packed flock of around 70-80 goldfinches when we were riding along the Majura bikepath on Friday. A far greater number together than we've seen previously.

Nick

On 16/06/2019 10:11 am, Geoffrey Dabb wrote:

A challenging question Janet.  Can you give an indication of roughly (a) how many birds in a flock (b) size of an individual bird?

 

Some large starling flocks are moving around at present.

 

From: Janet Russell m("gmail.com","gidajan");" target="_blank"> <>
Sent: Saturday, 15 June 2019 5:37 PM
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Subject: [canberrabirds] Flocks of smallish birds flying NW along Constitution Ave, Reid this afternoon

 

 

Does anyone have any idea what these birds may be? I can't see reference any on the chatline to groups of birds on the move at the moment.

 

Janet 

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