Simon,
Saw four Swift Parrots yesterday at KAMAROOKA SP (Whipstick State Forest?) in
north-central Victoria 36 30 98, 144 25 51 along with lots of lorikeets.
Searched
for about four hours the day before at Chiltern without success (no lorikeets,
Regent Honeyeaters or Swift Parrots)..... so I concur with your interesting
observations about the current difference between north-east & central Vic.
It was great to see the Swifties.
Bob Sothman
Adelaide
wrote:
> Hello birding aus,
>
> I have just returned to this group after a four month absence. I am just
> writing to say the Swift Parrot-Regent Honeyeater survey weekends are on 20-21
> May and 5-6 August. Please contact me if you would like to participate.
>
> The Swift Parrot has returned to the mainland from Tasmania, with records
> already from Gippsland, Melbourne and box-ironbark areas in Victoria, and
> Wisemans Ferry and Bathurst in NSW.
>
> In Victoria the Bendigo and Maryborough forests (Central Victoria), so silent
> last autumn, are brimming with life. Observations from the north-east suggest
> that the reverse has occurred (these forests were full of birds in 1999)
> although the Swift Parrot has been seen in box woodland at Chiltern.
>
> Yesterday evening at Wellsford State Forest (on the eastern outskirts of
> Bendigo), I decided to count all the lorikeets flying overhead. All were
> flying
> west to a roost site. I counted 306 Musk, 119 Purple-crowned and 23 Little
> Lorikeets in just over an hour, so there ie considerable activity within this
> forest at the moment! I also got my first good views of Swift Parrots for
> this
> season, with about 10 guzzling nectar from the Red Ironbark and the Yellow
> Gum.
> You could hear a pin drop at this site 12 months ago, its always changing.
>
> Simon Kennedy, Swift Parrot Project Officer
>
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