A Fantailed Cuckoo has been singing its head off near our house (next
to Limeburner's Lagoon, off Corio Bay, Geelong) for several days.
FC's overwinter regularly around Geelong, especially at Werribee
Treatment Plant. Do they usually start singing this early?
Russell Woodford
On 28/06/2005, at 8:47 PM, michael norris wrote:
Dear all
This morning I saw a brown Pink Robin at Long Hollow Reserve,
Beaumaris, which provides an excuse for an update on our birds.
This was a very late first date for a Pink Robin, paralleling Val
Ford's report of the late date for her first Pink Robin in Sorrento.
Just one symptom of the frightening scarcity of cold weather birds
with no Shrike-Thrush so far, few Whistlers etc. etc. Only
Spinebills and Mistletoebirds seem to be here in about average
numbers, possibly because their food supplies - including exotic
plants in gardens - are OK.
And on Port Phillip Bay NO penguins have been recorded yet, despite
the frequent high pressure weather, Gannets are scarce on a one-in-
four year scale and a small Little Black Cormorant flock arrived
and then went in disgust.
Michael Norris
Bayside Friends of Native Wildlife
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