Channel-billed Cuckoos returned to Abberton this-morning, Thursday 13th
September, having been seen by friends on their nearby property on Monday 10th
September.
Re recent postings about Woodswallow movements, Pat McConnell recorded a large
flock of Masked and White-browed Woodswallows crossing the Toowoomba Range,
headed east, on Tuesday 11th September.
As I observed in a recent posting, Spring has really kicked in here.
Yesterday afternoon I was watching a resplendent Variegated Fairywren busily
working through an Acacia macradenia in the garden, when a dazzling Red-backed
Fairy-wren dropped into the same small tree, while a stunningly blue and black
Superb Fairy-wren male foraged around underneath it – all in sight at the same
time, all with females and immatures pottering around not far away.
Sorry about all those superlatives, but resplendent, dazzling and stunning they
were! At which point, a Striated Pardalote came to the bird-bath under the same
tree! Words can’t really describe it, and I was too close to lift the camera.
It was just one of those privileged moments when you feel that you’re an
invisible observer to life going on, and you don’t dare to move.
Bill Jolly
"Abberton",
Lockyer Valley, Queensland.
(27º 34' 21" S; 152º 08' 21" E)
Visit our website at www.abberton.org
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