Today at 5.40 pm two hours before sunset there was a group of four brown heade honeyeaters sitting close together, for all the world like white breasted woodswallows. Behind them and a couple of feet higher in the tree were another two. They were all facing the same direction. It was two hours before sunset and by no means cold-the temperaature was over 30 degrees C.
HANZAB describes this sort of behaviour at night, roosting, with the birds facing alternate directions.
The birds may have been for a swim in birdbath, however only one was preening.
I have not seen this behaviour from brown headed honeyeaters before.
Gary
