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Being only 5 minutes drive from home, I decided to
make an hour visit later in the afternoon at Prospect Reservoir to see if I can
relocate the Swift Parrots seen this morning. As I drove up th hill, I
saved a Bar-shouldered Dove feeding alongside the road from
being run over by an oncoming car by beeping the horn for the bird to fly off.
Upon reaching the top of the hill, no Swift Parrots could be seen or heard in
the few Spotted Gums that I saw them in this morning.
I drove down the hill and had another look at a
group of Coral Trees in flower attracting a range of Honeyeaters and just before
leaving at about 6 pm, 10 Swift Parrots flew
overhead and towards the forest in the northern end of the Reservoir and
probably going to roost. There is enough flower for the Swift Parrots to stay
for another week atleast, with 4 species of Eucalypts in the area in flower.
There is quite a few Eucalyptus crebra (Narrow-leaved Ironbark) in flower, but I
haven't seen their blossoms trees attracting much birds in the past. Has anybody
noticed this?
The Reservoir still had several
Great-crested Grebes and 21 Hardheads and
total of 70 species was seen/heard today here (which would have been boosted if
I had access to the forest which surrounds the northern and western sides of the
reservoir).
Edwin
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