Hi all,
Just to add. I was at Nightcap National Park (in Northern NSW) 3 weeks ago and saw Topknot pigeons flocks of 100+.
Cheers, Charles Hunter
On 24/04/2011, at 1:00 PM, “Greg Roberts” wrote:
> Regarding Andrew’s note about Topknot Pigeons. Over the past couple of weeks > I’ve seen unusually large numbers of Topknot Pigeons in the Sunshine Coast > lowlands, especially about the Maroochy River and its tributaries. I suspect > it has something to do with camphor laurel fruiting and would appreciate any > suggestions. > Also, last night I had great views of a Sooty Owl in the Mapleton Forest > Reserve. > Greg Roberts > > “”Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2011 19:35:39 +1000 > From: “Andrew Thelander” > To: “‘Birding-aus'” > Subject: [Birding-Aus] Sunshine Coast birds > Message-ID: <201104230935.p3N9ZbEQ004703@mail5.tpg.com.au> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=”us-ascii” > > Hi all > > > A tour through the Mt Mellum area of the Sunshine Coast hinterland today > resulted in some nice sightings including at least ten Barred cuckoo-shrikes > in a fruiting Ficus obliqua (my spies tell me there were double that number > in the tree just 2 weeks ago). Also observed a male Regent bowerbird feeding > in a Polyscias elegans. Other species seen included Grey goshawk, Emerald > dove, Catbird, King parrot, Brown cuckoo-dove, Varied triller and Chestnut > breasted manikins feeding young.”” > Back in Nambour, there was a flock of 30 Topknot pigeons. > > > > ******************* > > =============================== > > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, > send the message: > unsubscribe > (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) > to: birding-aus-request@vicnet.net.au > > http://birding-aus.org > =============================== ===============================
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