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Hi Birders,
Carol Proberts from the Blue Mountains queried
whether the Yellow-faced Honeyeater migration had petered out
early this year because of little apparent movement of late in the Blue
Mountains. I can assure her that it is still going strongly in the Hunter Valley
west of Newcastle . Yesterday (20 April) John McLennan an I spent the day
bird watching in the Bulga/Broke/Milbrodale area and throughout the day
Yellow-faced Honeyeaters and lesser numbers of White-naped
Honeyeaters were passing over in flocks of up to 60+ birds from west to
east, mostly heading in a north-easterly direction. The birds were coming from
the Wollemi National park on the western side of the Putty Road and flying over
bushland and or farmland towards either Yengo NP on the eastern side of the road
or into the Pokolbin SF/Razorback Range area east of Broke. In Wollemi NP the
honeyeaters were feeding on the nectar of the flowering Spotted Gum
Eucalytus maculata.
At Bulga and in the nearby Wollemi National Park ,
good views were had of a number of Wedge-tailed Eagles, while a
hunting Hobby and a male Brown Goshawk were
engaged in a bit of rivalry over the NPWS Depot. In the NP there were
Fuscous Honeyaters, Double-banded Finches,
Wonga Pigeons, Little Lorikeets and
Large-billed Scrub-wrens to see.
Alan Morris
NSWFOC Records Officer.
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