Ticks being
1
an addition of a new warbler to your life bird list, or
2
those itching arachnids.
On Sunday morning there was a Big Day for honeyeaters streaming down past the tip of Green Cape. Below right is my not very successful attempt to photograph a few with the lighthouse in background. The chap at left is giving serious thought
to the challenge of flying across Disaster Bay. In the couple of hours I was there a thousand or so passed through, most flocks doing a few circuits around the cliff-top before setting off, some perching on or in the low scrubby bushes. In other parts of the
world there are famous places where small birds are funnelled down to a tip of land as a take-off point, such as Cape May, New Jersey, where warblers gather before flying across Delaware Bay. That has a lighthouse, too. You can also get ticks there, like
at Green Cape.
