large flock on Rainbow Lorikeets, Strathfield railway station, Sydney, NSW

[Denise Goodfellow <>]

Hi Tony
How are you?

I hope you didn't eat at the food fair held there on Friday!


on 25/3/10 7:12 AM, Tony Russell at  wrote:

> Yes, I've seen those at Palmerston too.  Hi Denise.
> 
> Tony
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: 
>  On Behalf Of Denise Goodfellow
> Sent: Thursday, 25 March 2010 7:52 AM
> To: Bill Stent; Ben Hope; Birding Aus
> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] large flock on Rainbow Lorrikeets, Strathfield
> railway station, Sydney, NSW
> 
> There are roosts of thousands in both Palmerston and Darwin.
> Denise L Goodfellow
> 
> on 25/3/10 4:57 AM, Bill Stent at  wrote:
> 
>> Could they have been preparing to roost for the night?  We see this
>> behaviour in Melbourne as well, and a noisy affair it is indeed!
>> 
>> Bill
>> 
>> --------------------------------------------------
>> From: "Ben Hope" <>
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 11:18 PM
>> To: <>
>> Subject: [Birding-Aus] large flock on Rainbow Lorrikeets,Strathfield
> railway
>> station, Sydney, NSW
>> 
>>> Birders,
>>> tonight (7:30pm) I saw a flock of what must have been about 500 rainbow
>>> lorrikeets in the park to the south of strathfield railway station
>>> (Sydney).
>>> They appeared to be feeding on the street trees (liquid ambers etc.). Can
>>> anyone comment on if this is a regular occurence in this location or
>>> others?
>>> I have never seen some many of this species in one location prior to
> this.
>>> 
>>> Kind regards,
>>> Ben
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