My impressions from down here in Melbourne by Port Phillip Bay are similar
to Mike Simpson's from southern coastal NSW.
He said " I was wondering how others had found their birding this summer?
Going back through my records of the past few years, the birding around
Penrith this year has been very poor (or I have just been out on the wrong
days). Apart from ..."
Here we have had few cuckoos or Rufous Fantails for a few years but this
time Sacred Kingfishers were missing too. This takes me back to some of my
first "contributions" to Birding-Aus in 1997.
Then I learnt to hope that a poor year for me was a sign that things were
going better inland. That could be right this time because of the welcome
increase in rain in Victoria in 2005.
But how does that explain the records of northern invaders like the
Channel-billed Cuckoo here in East Brighton in August last year (with
another probable reported the other day from Braeside Park)? Or the
Black-backed Magpie in the Black Rock suburb of Bayside?
Michael Norris
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