Several on-the-ball birdos have corrected my lazy mistake; read
RED-WHISKERED BULBUL for Red-Vented in my "Mulgoa this morning" report.
Cheers
Michael
---- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Russell" <>
To: "'Michael Hunter'" <>
Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 12:02 PM
Subject: Mulgoa this morning
> Hey , do you mean Pycnonotus cafer, Red-vented ? Or Pycnonotus jocosus,
> Red-whiskered ? Yeah, I thought so.
>
> Tony Russell
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
> On Behalf Of Michael
> Hunter
> Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 11:17 AM
> To:
> Subject: [BIRDING-AUS] Mulgoa this morning
>
> Hi All,
> Walked up Mayfair Rd. about 7.45 this morning, later than
> usual,
> the sun was up, no wind, a beautiful day.
> A male GOLDEN WHISTLER was hopping around and eyeing off an
> EASTERN SHRIKE-TIT a couple of metres away in the same tree, very
> similar
> colours but the Whistler's gold a little richer.
> The resident WHITE (grey) GOSHAWK unsucessfully swooping
> through the treetops, an enraged GREY BUTCHERBIRD screaming after it
> once it
> had gone. The Goshawk is one of our outstandingly magnificent birds, the
> swoop was fast, fluid and spectacular.
> BAR-SHOULDERED DOVES and RED-VENTED BULBULS sunning
> themselves
> up in dead eucalypt branches. Twelve SITELLAS counted flying between
> trees,
> two JACKY WINTERS and an OLIVE-BACKED ORIOLE.
> A BLACK SWAN recorded for the first time on one of the
> farm
> dams which was constructed three years ago and now has ribbon-weed
> growing
> in the shallows.
>
> Cheers
>
> Michael
>
>
> Michael Hunter
> Mulgoa Valley
> 50km west of Sydney Harbour Bridge
>
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