Thank you again to those who responded to my call last Friday (6 October) for Koel observations, with calls being heard in Watson, O’Connor and Griffith. Amazingly there have none been recorded on eBird since, that is until I just posted
the one I heard in Rivett this morning.
There was only one response to my similar Rainbow Bee-eater request, with a couple of birds reported to the S of Canberra on 3 October. The first and only report on eBird so far is a single bird at Stromlo Forest Park West on 7 October.
I understand none were reported during the K2C surveys on 8 October.
Jack Holland
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Sent: Friday, October 6, 2023 5:40 PM
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Subject: Where are the Koels this year? Also Rainbow Bee-eaters?
Hello subscribers, hard to believe but only 2 records of the Eastern Koel on eBird in the COG Area of Interest (AoI) so far this spring, both in September, when for the past few years there have been quite a few before the end of that month.
Has anyone made any other observations?
Also no records on eBird so far this spring of the Rainbow Bee-eater in the COG AoI, though otherwise I do have one for September which is again the month the first arrivals have been recorded in the past few years. Again has anyone made
any other observations?
Many thanks
Jack Holland
