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Subject: birding-aus Plants and birds
From: "Trevor Hampel" <>
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 23:18:27 +0930
My wife is an avid grower of Australian native plants. She also has more than a passing interest in birds. Yesterday as we had lunch in our sun room, we were delighted to have 9 New Holland Honeyeaters giving one particular plant a thorough going over for their lunch.
 
The plant was an Eremophila metallica, a low shrubby spreading plant covering some two square metres and no more than 50 cm high. The resident Singing Honeyeaters, Spiny Cheeked Honeyeaters and Red Wattlebirds are also frequent visitors to this plant, though these are somewhat more genteel eaters than the enthusiastic New Hollands.
 
 
Trevor Hampel
Murray Bridge (80 km SE of Adelaide)
South Australia
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