Hello Mike,
Travelled to Port Gregory on the WA coast, between Geraldton and Kalbarri on Friday 25 February. On arrival at the Caravan Park at about 2:00 Pm a flock of 50 – 100 Fork-tailed Swifts were overhead, from 20 metres above us to very high above us. The flock stayed around all afternoon. On the morning of 26th I first saw 4 birds at 6:30 AM and then by 9:00 AM the whole flock was back around the park. Drove to Kalbarri early in the afternoon, leaving the swifts very much in evidence at the park. Visited 3 of the coastal cliff lookouts just south of Kalbarri around 3:00 PM and saw swifts at each stop – between 5 and 15 at each location. Got back to Port Gregory at about 4:30 PM and there was not a swift to be found.
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HI Martin I had (conservatively) 3000 F-T Swifts (no Needletails) all heading inland from Mt Molloy north to Mt Lewis on Saturday lunch time for a couple of hours. I saw some with limited tails – but nothing else apart from the odd Australian Swiftlet. cheers Rob Morris Brisbane, Australia
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Hi Martin, I have a spare keyboard… Chewrs, Judy —–Original Message—– martin cachard Sent: Sunday, 18 January 2015 6:23 PM SWIFT records hello viewers… first Fork-tailed Swifts of the seasom for Cairms lowlamds (for me amyway) today at Smithfield at 430pm – avout 40 virds circlimg high after a ice storm… very late this seasom, usually first appear avout Xmas, sometimes a week or 4 earlier – I thimk they were late here last year too from memory (??) – could u please comfirm/demy that Mike T please…?? cheers, martim cachard, cairms White-throated Needletails circling over the suburb of Pymble in Sydney, NSW. The weather was hot, sunny and humid with no cloud. They disappeared off to the south. The sighting has been logged on eBird.
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plemty of Fork-tails over my home at trimity veach right mow veachfromt…circlimg very low at 30mtrs avove groumd/oceam, prov avt 100 forkies with mumerous swiftlets, vut mo meedletails at all, which is the morm amyway. cheers martim cachard, cairms
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Hi Martin, I had them at about 7.30 am for a while at Centenniel Lakes in Cairns this morning – first sign for me also this year. Lots of Swiftlets also. Good to see they like your “veach” cheers Peter Malanda 4096 6171 0427 634 136 (no reception at home) peter.valentine@jcu.edu.aupeter.valentine@jcu.edu.au> On 18/01/2015, at 7:14 PM, martin cachard < mcachard@hotmail.com mcachard@hotmail.com>> wrote: plemty of Fork-tails over my home at trimity veach right mow veachfromt…circlimg very low at 30mtrs avove groumd/oceam, prov avt 100 forkies with mumerous swiftlets, vut mo meedletails at all, which is the morm amyway. cheers martim cachard, cairms hello viewers… first Fork-tailed Swifts of the seasom for Cairms lowlamds (for me amyway) today at Smithfield at 430pm – avout 40 virds circlimg high after a ice storm… very late this seasom, usually first appear avout Xmas, sometimes a week or 4 earlier – I thimk they were late here last year too from memory (??) – could u please comfirm/demy that Mike T please…?? cheers, martim cachard, cairms CC: birding-aus@birding-aus.org birding-aus@birding-aus.org> Hi Mike On 17th January at about 4.30 pm for about 15 min, there were 10 White-throated Needletails circling over the suburb of Pymble in Sydney, NSW. The weather was hot, sunny and humid with no cloud. They disappeared off to the south. The sighting has been logged on eBird. Cheers Mona
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hello viewers… first Fork-tailed Swifts of the seasom for Cairms lowlamds (for me amyway) today at Smithfield at 430pm – avout 40 virds circlimg high after a ice storm… very late this seasom, usually first appear avout Xmas, sometimes a week or 4 earlier – I thimk they were late here last year too from memory (??) – could u please comfirm/demy that Mike T please…?? cheers, martim cachard, cairms
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sorry make that date 26/01/14 _______________________________________________ Birding-Aus mailing list Birding-Aus@birding-aus.org To change settings or unsubscribe visit: http://birding-aus.org/mailman/listinfo/birding-aus_birding-aus.org
hi Helen, thanks for inadvetantly reminding me that i had forgotten to post my first swifts for the season seen up here on the Cairns coastal plain!!!! on Sunday 26/02/14 at 6pm i recorded my first migrant swifts here for the season. there were literally thousands of Fork-tailed Swifts with a few White-throated Needletails amongst them – numbers were impossible to ascertain, by if i were to hazard a guess, i’d guess-timate possibly a minimum 5000 fork-tailed’s, & i actually counted 20 needletails – the flock was spread over 3kms & at varying altitudes above me, with the highest barely visible without my bins… i was riding my mountain bike home from work & i could hear the lowest of the birds calling – they made quite a racket… the flock was from McGregor Rd/Cook Hwy roundabout, Smithfield, north to Trinity Beach foreshore – an amazing arrival indeed !! amongst the swifts were a great deal of Aust Swiflets, White-breasted Woodswallows & Welcome Swallows, our usual hawking locals… this is a pretty late mass arrival – the big flocks normally get here late December most years, sometimes as early as first week of December, & this is the latest i’ve had them through here in numbers in 18 years living here… i apologise for this late posting (sorry Mike!!). cheers Martin Cachard, Cairns, 0428 782 808 > Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 02:07:13 +0000 _______________________________________________ Birding-Aus mailing list Birding-Aus@birding-aus.org To change settings or unsubscribe visit: http://birding-aus.org/mailman/listinfo/birding-aus_birding-aus.org