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Brown-headed Honeyeaters bathing in rain droplets

To: "Tony Russell" <>, "Peter Pfeiffer" <>, <>
Subject: Brown-headed Honeyeaters bathing in rain droplets
From: "Steve Creber" <>
Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 09:44:57 +1000
At the risk of stating the obvious, Red Wattlebirds habitually bathe in
moist foliage.

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Steven Creber

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-----Original Message-----
From: 
 On Behalf Of Tony Russell
Sent: Tuesday, 16 May 2006 9:40 AM
To: 'Peter Pfeiffer'; 
Cc: 
Subject: Brown-headed Honeyeaters bathing in rain
droplets

Sometimes, when I'm feeling generous, I spray my garden hose up into
nearby trees. The local 20-30 New Holland H/Es quickly fly in and go
absolutely bonkers in the spray and wet dripping leaves. They have a
great time. I usually get fed up with it long before they even look like
having had enough.

Tony,



-----Original Message-----
From: 
 On Behalf Of Peter Pfeiffer
Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 8:45 AM
To: 
Cc: 
Subject: Brown-headed Honeyeaters bathing in rain
droplets


At 06:19 PM 5/15/2006, you wrote:


>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
>
>--

  I have observed New Holland Honeyeaters often taking  ' foliage
baths'  here in Adelaide.

Peter.


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