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

[Lia Battisson <>]

If only I had a dollar for every unidentified bird that I’ve seen in the last 20 years!

Lia Battisson

 

From: Martin Butterfield <>
Sent: 16 June 2019 2:32 PM
To: Nick Payne <>
Cc: COG List <>
Subject: Re: [canberrabirds] Flocks of smallish birds flying NW along Constitution Ave, Reid this afternoon

 

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.

Martin Butterfield

 

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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
Sent: Saturday, 15 June 2019 5:37 PM
To: Canberrabirds
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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