yellow-rumped thornbills in the mangroves

["Bruce Roubin" <>]

G'day,

I was surprised to find tonight (6pm+)  that yellow-rumped thornbills were the predominant species in a mixed-species feeding party in the grey mangroves at the boardwalk at Cronulla Sharks club (southern shores of Botany Bay).

I had previously thought that yellow-rumped thornbills fed only from the grass or in the base of a shrub, and were not to be found in mangroves.

They were there catching insects in the upper branches along with silvereye (lateralis race) and with a white-plumed honeyeater, grey fantail and some yellow thornbills.  Welcome swallows and fairy martins were participating overhead in the same feast.

 

Regards

Bruce Roubin