At 11:15 this morning, just as the sun broke through here, a flock of 50 (conservative estimate) smallish birds swooped in from the north east landing on the
outer branches of a large Service tree in a neighbouring yard about 25 metres from where I stood and paused long enough for me to identify the majority as Yellow-faced Honeyeaters. There may have been other species present but I couldn’t vouch for that. Within
20 seconds they were off again heading south west before landing on a tree some 70 metres away but still in sight. Less than 5 seconds later they were away again wheeling around to the north east and disappearing from view.
John Layton
Holt.
From: Canberrabirds [
On Behalf Of Nicki Taws
Sent: Sunday, 18 April 2021 9:27 AM
To: ; 'Canberra birds'
Subject: Re: [Canberrabirds] FW: Honeyeater migration
The migration seemed very busy in the warm calm fortnight around Easter, and less so since.
It would not be surprising if there were far fewer birds to migrate, given that the honeyeaters had the double whammy of severe bushfires through much of their summer breeding grounds and also through vast swathes of their winter feeding
areas. I can imagine that it would take a number of good breeding years to build up to pre-fire numbers again.
Cheers
Nicki Taws
0408 210736
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Sent: Saturday, 17 April, 2021 2:31 PM
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Subject: [Canberrabirds] FW: Yellow-faced Honeyeaters over Duffy 9.15am - incidental
Many thanks to all those who responded. While some observers counted numbers similar to those seen on the COG outing and by Michael Robbins, no-one seems to have yet reported numbers in the same order as Lindsay and others have counted
in past years. Jack Holland
