Blue Mountains Bird Observers recently visited North Lawson Swamp on our
monthly Wednesday walk. It was a beautiful sunny spring day and the honeyeater
migration was in full swing. There are still large numbers of mainly
Yellow-faced Honeyeaters with a few White-naped, flying over but this year
there have been many more Red Wattlebirds than usual. Several of the walkers
commented on this as we watched. The Tree Martins are back, we saw them
hawking over the swamp and flying back to the old Scribbly Gums where they nest
each year. The open forest on the edge of the swamp produced the first Rufous
Whistler of the season, a small flock of Buff-rumped Thornbills, Grey Currawong
and a Scarlet Robin among more common species. Bird of the day had to be the
pair of Southern Emu-wren bobbing up and down in the swamp. The wildflowers
were pretty good too.
Jill Dark,
Hazelbrook, Blue Mountains, NSW
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