Hi all,
On Sunday morning I spent a few hours wandering around a part of the
Awaba Forest (central coast NSW, west of Lake Macquarie) that I haven’t
spent much time in before. Didn’t see many species although a small
party of Southern Emuwrens was nice- I hadn’t seen SEW around Awaba so
far this year. Also a new wrecked car (a regular event unfortunately).
Mind you, wrecked cars (set alight), are the most common cause of
“patchy burning” at Awaba which brings about a variety of understorey
densities.
Of interest was a group of Brown-headed Honeyeaters that was kicking up
quite a fuss in the canopy of eucalypts. There had been short shower
earlier in the morning and there was a light layer of water still on the
leaves. At first I thought they were gleaning lerp or insects off the
leaves and were doing it in an overly vigorous fashion. After watching
them for a while I came to the conclusion that they were vigorously
shaking and flapping their wings in amongst the leaves having a kind of
bath. There must have been about 30 birds.
I can’t remember seeing this behaviour before.
Cheers
Mick Todd
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Michael Todd
Wildlifing
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