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SFW feeding HBC

To: Laurie Knight <>
Subject: SFW feeding HBC
From: Russ <>
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 22:19:10 +1100
Next time I'll leave out the full names AND the abbreviations and make you
all guess!!
RW

On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 6:57 PM, Laurie Knight <>wrote:

> Perhaps it is the role of the list owner to add a bit of mystery to
> proceedings  :)
>
> LK
>
>
> On 20/02/2012, at 5:23 PM, Helen Larson wrote:
>
>  SFW HBC?
>> SFW = southern fresh waters? HBC is a bank? no they are birds.....
>> Please use bird names in full so we don't get even more puzzled than
>> usual - thanks!
>>
>> <')/////==<
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>> From: Russ <>
>> To: Birding Aus <>
>> Sent: Sunday, 19 February 2012, 22:18
>> Subject: [Birding-Aus] SFW feeding HBC
>>
>> Hi all
>>
>> I'm still settling into a new job and haven't had much time for birding
>> lately, but occasionally the birds just find you, don't they? As I arrived
>> home yesterday there was a female (or brown) Superb Fairy-Wren on the
>> fence
>> right in front of the car - and I did a double-take because it was feeding
>> a BIGGER bird - a young Horsfield's Bronze-Cuckoo. I've seen a few species
>> (mostly Thornbills) feeding Bronze-Cuckoos over the years, but I can't
>> recall seeing a fairy-Wren do it, although I think they're a standard
>> target species for these cuckoos. Is it a bit late for this sort of thing?
>> I know FWs breed through until about February here, but I was under the
>> impression that cuckoos breed mainly in spring and early summer. Has
>> anyone
>> else noticed cuckoos breeding this late into the summer before?
>>
>> Russell Woodford
>> Geelong
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