Dave
OK Merry Christmas, am going off to have a sleep now, too much food and
wine.
Greg
From: Dave Torr
Sent: Sunday, 25 December 2011 1:17 PM
To: Greg Little
Cc: birding-aus
Subject: Strange Yellow Thornbill behaviour?
I guess we'll never know!
It's interesting that we have two choices - either a Yellow Thornbill (which
is what 2 experienced observers thought it was) behaving strangely or a
strangely marked Cisticola behaving strangely (even if not calling it did
not look like one in flight either) - I certainly would go for the first! Or
I guess a 3rd is a Weebill.
On 25 December 2011 13:13, Greg Little <> wrote:
Dave
Maybe, but it is more likely that a Cisticolla was quietly behaving like a
Cisticolla than a Yellow Thornbill performing something completely out of
character for YT's.
Greg
From: Dave Torr
Sent: Sunday, 25 December 2011 12:25 PM
To: Greg Little
Cc: birding-aus
Subject: Strange Yellow Thornbill behaviour?
Absolutely - the only other possibility given the colouring was Weebill but
the bill looked wrong. And a Cisticola would usually call when doing such
flights in my experience
On 25 December 2011 12:03, Greg Little <> wrote:
Dave
Are you sure it was not a Cisticolla? Merry Christmas.
Greg Little
-----Original Message-----
From:
On Behalf Of Dave Torr
Sent: Sunday, 25 December 2011 8:57 AM
To: birding-aus
Subject: Strange Yellow Thornbill behaviour?
On Friday I visited the Western Treatment Plant Werribee with 2 overseas
birders and an experienced Aussie birder. A short distance down Paradise Rd
we observed what was almost certainly (based on colour and bill shape - the
light was not good) a Yellow Thornbill perched on the overhead power lines.
It was probably 100m or so from the nearest bushes or trees. It
periodically took off and flew very high before returning to the wire, and
then eventually flew down into the grassland where we lost sight of it. I
have seen Yellow Thornbills at the WTP before but this seemed to be very
strange behaviour!
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