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White-throated Gerygone seasonality, Owl Photos

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Subject: White-throated Gerygone seasonality, Owl Photos
From: Penny Brockman <>
Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 21:39:56 +1000
Dear Mike and all

I have White-throated Gerygones calling in and near my back garden throughout the year. The call at this time of year is a short version of the spring/summer one - and I've had good sightings of the birds whilst they are calling. I also used to think they migrated.



A quick email to let you know that I've updated my website again (www.wildlifing.com). I actually did it a week or so ago and emailed birding-aus a couple of times but the emails got blocked.

New photos that I've put up include Owls (Masked, Grass, Powerful, Boobook), Tawny Frogmouth, Great Egret, Little Pied Cormorant, Noisy Miner, Laughing Kookaburra, Greater Glider, Common Brushtail Possum, Common Ringtail Possum and Litoria fallax.

I've also put up some photos of the Small Tongue Orchid (Cryptostylis leptochila) and its pollinating ichneumonid wasp that goes by the lovely name of Lissopimpla!

In the last week I've been working in the Singleton area (Hunter Valley, NSW) and came across White throated Gerygones in three different locations. Of the 119 NSW records that I have in my database I've only once before had WTG in the months May, Jun or July, and that was late July 1997, also in the Singleton area. I wonder whether they are birds that didn't migrate or are early arrivals. Other interesting birds during the week were Powerful Owl, Masked Owl, Barn Owl, Diamond Firetail, Swift Parrot, Speckled Warbler and Grey-crowned Babbler.

Cheers,

Mick

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