G'day all
I visited my (once upon a time) never fail site for Hooded Robins on Saturday
and was rewarded with 100's of White-browed Woodswallows. The site is in the
Grampians State Forest west of Cherrypool on the Hamilton-Horsham road. The
forest is open woodland of yellow gums and stringy barks with little understory.
The Woodswallows were feeding in the yellow gum blossum and hawking over the
canopy. I looked very hard for Masked Woodswallows but couldn't find any.
White-browed Woodswallows are uncommon visitors to this part of the world
(south-western Victoria). I have records of hundreds (with a few Masked) over
Hamilton in Occtober 1991 and three in a woodlot south of Hamilton in October
1997.
As for the Hooded Robins - they used to be here regularly but not seen since
1986. I live in hope.
Cheers
Steve
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Steve Clark
Hamilton, Victoria, 3300
HTTP://www.ansonic.com.au/clarks/sw_birds.htm
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