Graham Turner raised the question of Crescent Honeyeaters in the lower Blue
Mountains. My experience is similar to Graham's, that they are generally a
bird of the mid to upper Blue Mountains.
This prompted me to search the Blue Mountains Bird Observers records. From
1996 to the present, there is only one record on their database of Crescent
Honeyeater below Winmalee/Springwood (see below). In fact they have very
few records below about Woodford (which is in the mid-mountains at 600m
asl). These are as follows:
June 96 Springwood
31/8/97 Glenbrook Gorge
27/5/98 Martin's Lookout (Springwood)
20/3/99 Blue Gum Swamp (Winmalee)
Throughout the mountains, most sightings occur around the winter months
with few records in summer (Nov-Jan), suggesting a latitudinal migration
from further south.
Cheers
Carol
Carol Probets
Upper Blue Mountains
100km west of Sydney
On 22/5/03, Graham Turner wrote:
> I had a new bird for my garden at Lapstone, in the
>lower Blue Mtns, namely a Crescent Honeyeater. In 20 years of living in
>lapstone neither my father nor myself have seen a Crescent HE in the
>suburb. Not sure if any of the others on birding aus have any records,
>but I associate the bird with further up the Mtns, with Blue Gum Swamp
>Creek (Winmalee) being the closest regular spot. I wondered if the
>bushfires had anything to do with this odd sighting.
>
>Graham Turner
>Lapstone,
>Lower Blue Mountains
>60km west of Sydney
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