Migrant Grey Fantails, Banyule Flats, Heidelberg, Vic.

[brian fleming <>]

This afternoon I was following the track on the eastern side of the 
Banyule Flats Billabong (it leads to the windmill on the Yarra bank).  I 
had been seeing plenty of Grey Fantails already, but  in this stretch I 
found myself in a positive swarm of them. As I advanced I kept 
disturbing yet another group of 6-12 birds which shot into the air, 
swooped about, pursued minute insects and went back to perch. I counted 
50 to 60 birds in a short stretch and my estimate for their total 
numbers would be hundreds. They seemed fairly light-grey birds, unlike 
the rather blackish ones seen in winter.  I assume they are a 
newly-arrived migrant flock.
Where will they be tomorrow?

Anthea Fleming
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