more Fork-tailed Swifts in Cairns

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Subject:	more Fork-tailed Swifts in Cairns
From:	martin cachard <>
Date:	Mon, 16 Nov 2015 01:31:40 +0000

Dear Mike & all,

I've just been observing at 10:25am today a rather large loose flock of 
Fork-tailed Swifts hawking low above the Captain Cook Hwy in Smithfield, 20kms 
north of Cairns.

There was about 50 Forkies, together with a handful of White-breasted 
Woodswallows and Welcome Swallows as well as 2 Fairy Martins, but no 
Needletails or Swiftlets.

The mixed flock was feeding just below & above telegraph pole height; weather 
sunny & fine (but humid); & the swifts were heading generally to the north as I 
found them again when arriving home at Trinity Beach about 10kms to the north, 
so presumably these were the same birds.

cheers,

martin cachard,

trinity beach,

cairns.

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