On Tuesday morning a single honeyeater alighted on a dead wattle-tree near the west end of the Banyule Billabong. Not the White-plumed HE one would have expected – face clearly marked with black and yellow horizontal face-mask, and upper parts more brown than green. Definitely a Yellow-faced Honeyeater.
Presumably an autumn passage-migrant on its way north. I don’t believe I have seen YFHE here more than once or twice at most in 35+ years birding. They used to come through Studley Park with White-naped HEs in autumn but haven’t seen them there for similar period.
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Hi Anthea,
I saw at least two there in late April last year.
Sonja
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Hi Anthea I have one record for the area, Merri Creek, Clifton Hill, near Heidelberg Road, July 1983 Cheers Neville
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