Prue and I did our winter survey this morning, in reasonable conditions. It was cool but sunny to start, although clouding over later, and a cold southerly made its presence felt at times. There was a lot
of water around, with some creeks flowing. 40 species were recorded, a good total for winter, although just 28 of these were during 10 minute counts. On two occasions a mixed flock moved into our site when we had just completed our count.
There was quite a lot of Yellow Box in flower and several groups of
Yellow-faced and White-naped Honeyeaters were feeding in these. Other honeyeaters included
White-eared, White-plumed, Brown-headed and a single Fuscous, the latter not often recorded during our surveys. One of the mixed flocks we encountered after counts included our only
Scarlet Robins, Varied Sittellas and Speckled Warblers for the morning. A single
Superb Parrot was heard and a pair of Wedge-tailed Eagles were displaying over the woodland north of Mt Majura.
Red-necked and Swamp Wallabies were seen, also a single Brown Hare, the first I have seen here for some time.
Steve
