Trevor Hampel wrote:
> White-Backed Swallows seem to be a species not often mentioned on
> Birding-Aus. A check of the archives revealed a mere handful of
> mentions.
>
> I recently (2/5/99) saw three W B Swallows and was suddenly reminded
> how beautiful they are.
> The sighting was at One Tree Hill (35 30 38 S 140 10 08 E) 15 km
> south of Geranium in the Murray Mallee of South Australia. (Geranium
> is about 160km east of Adelaide - 2 hours drive on the Tailem Bend to
> Lameroo road)
>
> The birds sighted were flitting around a sandy bank and frequently
> inspecting a hole in the bank. During my 20 minute stay (for the
> Atlas) I did not observe any of them entering the tunnel.
Well said Trevor! Last week I saw 6 of these beautiful creatures (with
their strange thornbill/weebill type call) flying around a gypsum quarry
south of Cohuna in the Victorian Riverina. Better looks than I'd had in
years, and yes, they are gorgeous creatures. I could see a number of
burrows in the heaps of crushed gypsum, and suspect they were WBS nest
burrows this summer just gone.
Cheers, Lawrie
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