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Hi Everyone,
Something that is puzzling me is the number of birds that are
nesting while its still officially winter. While we have been shivering in
South-east Qld. (SEQ) with frosty mornings, the local magpie has been stealing
some coconut fibre from my plant pots and is building a nest in the nearby
flooded gum. Yesterday while at Maroochy Botanical Gardens, we saw
an Eastern Yellow Robin sitting on a nest and a local told me this morning that
he had seen two Dollarbirds on powerlines in Woombye last week. Woombye is
just south of Nambour. Dollarbirds don't usually come back to SEQ until
August/September do they?
With regard to songsters, about 6 Golden Whistlers were
singing their hearts out in Buderim Forest Park yesterday at the same site as
though competing with one another as well as a few more over at the Gardens and
the Fan-tailed Cuckoos have been very vocal as well.
Andrew, sorry if you've missed the Scarlet Honeyeaters
but they must be all at my place in Palmwoods.
Maybe spring is arriving next week - I hope so.
Jan
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