Last night about 6pm there was a Rufous Fantail in our backyard (near
Limeburners Lagoon, Corio Bay, the southestern arm of Port Philip). It stayed
around for 15 or twenty minutes. This species occurs in wet forests, but not
usually close to Geelong. I've only recorded it once before, in another house
on the Geelong Grammar campus, in November 1994. Don Greaves also recorded it
once, around twenty years ago - his report was published in a Port Philip
faunal survey.The species is occasionally recorded in spring as they move back
to their breeding grounds in the Otways and Wombat forests, etc. I don't know
of any other autumn records - almost summer, being 1st March. I guess the
drought and bushfires have caused all sorts of unusual movements.Russell
Woodford
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