I was talking to an Ergon linesman recently who related to many bodies of small
birds on a road near Malanda on the Atherton Tableland. As he walked along the
road way to put up signage he noted that there were small birds dead on the
road at the rate of one or two each metre. He assumed that they were silvereyes
or finches as it was some days after the event.
Last night a news item from Townsville Wildlife Rescue stated that they
were treating the annual number of native doves and pigeons. Tape was of
Woompoos, Superb Fruit- doves and Torressian Pigeons. The later should have
been heading North at this time or year and obviously lost it's bearings and
almost it's life. How many perished?
News from up the Cape from Scotty Templeton at Coen said that on Coen
Airport runway were eight Pied Herons, nine Caspian Terns, three Black-naped
Terns and two little Terns, all new records for the area. Locally Monica passed
within about forty kilometres away to the North.
Last year as Cyclone Ingrid passed over the same region in the "Clear" eye
were many sea birds seemingly unable to escape. Ingrid lost intensity and they
may have flown out as it crossed the western Cape coastal areas as a Category
One.
Tonight (22/04) Cyclone Monica approaches the Top End coast as a Category
Five.
Del. Richards, Fine Feathers, Mossman, NQ.
==============================www.birding-aus.org
birding-aus.blogspot.com
To unsubscribe from this mailing list,
send the message:
unsubscribe
(in the body of the message, with no Subject line)
to:
=============================
|
