White-throated Needletails – 9 Nov

Hi all the first Sydney sighting for me this season a- flock of 25-30 birds seen approx 7:45am over my house in North Turramurra (northern Sydney). They were low down and circling – feeding on something. The birds were calling as well – little chittering calls. All the birds I could ID for sure were WTNTS, although I looked for Fork-tailed (or other) Swifts as we are encouraged to do early in the season. As in prior seasons, I will record my sightings for Mike Tarburton and submit a total at the end of the summer- I use a very basic spreadsheet to do this. (I do this so that if I sees flocks that aren’t significant in some way I have a record but don’t clog up b-aus with reports of 5 birds or similar. In the height of summer I may see a small number of birds for several consecutive days over my house.) If anybody would like a copy to use for their own recordings, please contact me offline. Cheers Tom Wilson.