There is a very large flowering of spotted gum around batemans bay. That is
why there are 100,000 bats down there at the moment.
The flowering is (apparently) predicated to go on for at least 6 weeks.
This might have some impact on the movement.
Storm
On 23 May 2016 at 09:31, Roger Giller <> wrote:
> I am at Barden Ridge, about 5 km SW of Paul, and have noted the same thing,
> in previous years as well as now. Manly south with some random excursions
> between various trees but of all the directions north would be the
> minority.
> Roger.
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> Hi all,
> For the last few weeks I have been watching flocks of honeyeaters, mainly
> Yellow-faced as far as I can tell, moving past my place at Como, in
> southern
> Sydney (34degree 59 S, 151 degrees, 04 E).
> Interested to see that every one of them so far, without exception, have
> been moving pretty much due South. I realise that there could be some
> irregularity in the directions travelled as they follow topography, etc.,
> but it still seems strange.
> Any ideas anyone?
> Paul
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