There have been a good number of reports of Swift Parrots feeding in Royal Park (Melbourne)
Could you please let me know if anyone seen or heard any a little north of this in Moreland??
thanks in anticipation Wendy Moore ===============================
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In the northern suburbs (Melb) there’ve been recent Swift Parrot reports at a few locations including Yarra Bend and La Trobe Uni. I can’t see any recent report in Moreland – and I don’t think they have been recorded on the Merri Creek bird surveys (yet). However Swift Parrot have been sighted at the southern end of the Cooper Street Grassland Reserve, the Mickleham-Mt Ridley site of the Merri Creek (near Malcolm and Aitken Creeks), further north at Woodland Park, the remnant Red Gum woodlands at the Edgars Creek headwaters (around Wollert), Kismet Creek Woodland (near Sunbury), Wallan, and the box-ironbark on Mt Piper (near Broadford).
Of interest I recently rode my bike through Yarra Bend and the place is firing with lorikeets! There were enormous numbers of Rainbow and Musk and a few Little and Scaly-breasted. I didn’t see any Swift Parrot here, but given the fact that they’re about at Royal Park (I first saw them there on the 28th of April, 2011, so they’ve been there for nearly a month and half) I suspect they’ll be at Yarra Bend as well.
If anyone is interested in having a look for Swift Parrot at Yarra Bend, the place to look is in the flowering Spotted Gum along Yarra Bend Rd, and the line of trees – which includes profusely flowering Yellow Gum and Red Ironbark – around the Westfield Grasslands opposite the Park Victoria Office – see http://tinyurl.com/6yzjqqe.
Cheers,
Tim