Fw: [Birding-Aus] RFI: Gerygones, thornbills etc. drinking

["Val Curtis" <>]

Hi Phil

Of course that White-browed Treecreeper should have been WHITE-THROATED!!!
When I see a White-browed in Gembrook the climate really will have changed.
Didn't notice the error until I read your reply just now.
I've been sitting outside sipping a very nice glass of red and watched a
small group of Brown Thornbills come to the water. During the first few dips 
they put their faces into the water and then splashed with their wings, but
after a few dips they just seemed to splash with the wings. I didn't
actually see or hear them 'slurp' and they didn't enter the beaks into the
water and  tilt the head back like most drinking birds. So I ca'n't really 
say
if they were drinking or just washing their faces!


Val