Over the last few days I've seen a male adult Flame Robin
at the Collingwood Children's Farm (Melbourne) - next to
the bike track. The farm is very close to the Eastern
Freeway - although it's probably the only 'grazing land'
left in that area. Each year a number of FR make the farm
their home.
Tim
> Hi all,
>
> There were 4 Flame Robins in Braeside Park, SE suburbs of Melbourne,
> Victoria, to-day, 3 were brown birds. The breast of the fourth was washed
> red. This is my first sighting of this species in the park for the year.
> They are an altitudinal migrant and will be with us now for the winter ( in
> much larger numbers in a few weeks ).
>
> Rob.
>
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> > From: Brian Fleming <>
> > To:
> > Subject: birding-aus Migrating Flame Robins
> > Date: Wednesday, 31 March 1999 21:22
> >
> > This evening (Wed 31 march 1999) we saw about 4 or 5 Flame Robins
> > flitting about in wattles and on the ground at the western edge of
> > Chelsworth Park Oval, close to the billabong, in Ivanhoe. They seemed
> > to be feeding. All were brown birds - one had a faint warm tone on the
> > upper breast which might have been pinkish in better light. We had no
> > binoculars and the light was poor at about 5.40 pm, 'real' time, but I
> > have no doubt on identification. Wingflashes were quite obvious and i
> > was able to get up close.
> > Thirty years ago they were regular migrants which stayed for the winter.
> > These days we only see them passing through. I blame habitat change -
> > the Eastern Freeway replaced grazing land on the Kew bank of the Yarra,
> > among other management changes in parkland.
> > Any other sightings yet this autumn?
> > Anthea Fleming in Ivanhoe, Melbourne.
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