Yesterday (12th March) I had a very juvenile King Parrot calling and
begging for food around my house. Another instance of the same species at
the same very dependant, begging stage, but presumably a different bird
about two weeks ago. Hanzab indictes that breeding and fledging is over by
mid February.
About a week ago I had a juvenile Brown-headed Honeyeater and a juvenile
Black-naped Honeyeater at my bird bath at the same time; (both of these
species are unusual visitors to my water source though they are reasonably
common in the area).
I have also had very young Crimson Rosellas around the place very recently
but cannot put a date on this; probably around 6th March.
The Eastern Spinebill shows signs of nesting again but I cannot be sure.
The local gum trees (mostly Mountain Grey Gums, Brown Stringy, Messmates and
Small-leaved Peppermints) have been heavily in flower this year and I have
had a new record for the area of Little Lorikeet.
I have little knowledge the ecology of our local gumtrees but seemed to have
gleaned some idea from somewhere that trees put out a lot of flowers in
years of stress. I would have to say that this area is indeed under stress
with much of the understorey succumbing to the dry conditions and many of
the taller mid-storey looking very sick, but the gums have flowered
constantly over the past four or five weeks approximately.
Are these ? late breeding records because of the prolifericlly flowering
gums???
Have other areas recorded unusually late breeding records?
Val
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