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The Eucalyptus blakeleyi in my front yard (the one in which there was a fledgling Koel for some time until a windstorm blew a couple of branches down) is covered in lerp at the moment. This has induced a feeding frenzy of mainly Red Wattlebirds but also Noisy
Miners for several days. My guess is about 20 birds in all. But the interesting thing from my perspective was the presence of 3 SCCs. They were delicately placing the attached leaves between their mandibles and running their bills along the leaf apparently
scraping off the lerp.
The other observation was reported to me by a lady who lives nearby. She saw me with binos and decided to ask my advice. She had photographed a dead bird on the ground near her place and asked me what it was. It was unmistakably a young Koel, although not
all of the bird was there.
David Rosalky
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