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Fork-tailed Swifts - Lapstone - NSW

To: "Baus" <>
Subject: Fork-tailed Swifts - Lapstone - NSW
From: "Graham Turner" <>
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 13:55:14 +1100
Giday Birders,
                        as hinted at by Evan there was a flock of fork-tailed swifts over Lapstone last night (Lapstone is in the lower Blue Mountains, about 60km west of the Sydney CBD). My best count was 17 but felt there were more birds that I could not see. The birds seemed to be feeding and headed off slowly to the south, which is why Evan missed seeing them.
 
Also there was an odd bird amongst them, similar in size and shape to a fork-tail, but no matter how long I watched it, it would not fork its tail (the others did this quite regularly). My guess is that it was just a fork-tail but with maybe some outer tail feathers missing. Any thoughts on this?
 
Cheers
Graham Turner
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