FW: Where are the Koels this year? Also Rainbow Bee-eaters?

[Meke Kamps <>]

Hi Jack 

Apologies for the slow reply, as I kept getting distracted. I have been hearing the Koels for a bit out my way - around Stromlo Forest Park. Latest confirmed this morning, as I went for my morning walk. 

Meke 

On Tue, 10 Oct 2023 at 09:01, jandaholland--- via Canberrabirds <> wrote:

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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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

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