Lawson, Blue Mountains, NSWarwe...@hotmail.com > From: littlehea...@bigpond.com> To: arwe...@hotmail.com> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Amazing birding experiences - honeyeater migration(racing pigeons)> Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 18:20:54 +1000> > Arwen,> > Are you sure the Pigeons weren't Topknots?> These guys can form pretty tight, large flocks and fly around in circles > quite high in the sky.> From a distance their colouration depicts the 'bluebar' colouration of Feral > Pigeon, Topknots are generally longer, with larger tails and fly at a slower > speed than the Ferals.> > Kurtis Lindsay> > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Arwen B. Ximenes" <arwe...@hotmail.com>> To: <a...@optusnet.com.au>; <j...@iprimus.com.au>> Cc: <birding-...@vicnet.net.au>> Sent: Sunday, May 11, 2008 2:37 PM> Subject: [Birding-Aus] Amazing birding experiences - honeyeater > migration(racing pigeons)> > > > yes, thanks. Indeed this makes a lot of sense, though I don't know anything > about the sport - I have seen utes squished full of pigeons around from time > to time, one not long ago - and I did wonder... incidentally, today's > pigeons were probably the 'blue bar' type.> It's rather a relief they're not 'wild' because there were a lot of > them!btw - Happy Mother's Day to all the 'hens' out there.> A> ......................................... Arwen Blackwood Ximenes> Lawson, Blue Mountains, NSWarwe...@hotmail.com > Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 > 13:44:42 +1000> To: arwe...@hotmail.com> From: a...@optusnet.com.au> > Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Amazing birding experiences - honeyeater > migration> > > > Sounds like racing pigeons> > Andy> > > > > >Carol, this > makes more sense to me now because the first flocks of > >migrating > honeyeaters I saw (at Lawson, approx. 15 kms east of > >Katoomba) were > heading west. Then there seemed to be a shift > >northwards for a while, now > they seem to be heading in both > >directions (I guess it just depends when > you're looking out the > >window - some have been going south too - go > figure!) I thought they > >would have started petering out by now - I'm > going to miss them when > >they do. They like stopping off to feed in our > Banksias (spinifolia, > >I think), so it would be nice to plant some more.> > >> >While we're on flocks - this morning we saw flocks of 100 or so > >Feral > Pigeons flying over Bullaburra and Lawson - they didn't seem > >to have any > particular goal, just swooping around up high in fairly > >tight formations. > Any idea what that's about?> >cheers,> >Arwen> > >......................................... Arwen Blackwood Ximenes> >Lawson, > Blue Mountains, NSWarwe...@hotmail.com> > >_________________________________________________________________> >Search > for local singles online @ Lavalife - Click here> > >http://a.ninemsn.com.au/b.aspx?URL=http%3A%2F%2Flavalife9%2Eninemsn%2Ecom% 2Eau%2Fclickthru%2Fclickthru%2Eact%3Fid%3Dninemsn%26context%3Dan99%26locale %3Den%5FAU%26a%3D30290&_t=764581033&_r=email_taglines_Search_OCT07&_m=EXTww w.birding-aus.org> > >birding-aus.blogspot.com> >> >To unsubscribe from this mailing list,> >send > the message:> >unsubscribe> >(in the body of the message, with no Subject > line)> >to: birding-aus-requ...@vicnet.net.au>> _________________________________________________________________> Search for local singles online @ Lavalife - Click here> http://a.ninemsn.com.au/b.aspx?URL=http%3A%2F%2Flavalife9%2Eninemsn%2Ecom%2 Eau%2Fclickthru%2Fclickthru%2Eact%3Fid%3Dninemsn%26context%3Dan99%26locale% 3Den%5FAU%26a%3D30290&_t=764581033&_r=email_taglines_Search_OCT07&_m=EXT=== =======www.birding-aus.org> birding-aus.blogspot.com> > To unsubscribe from this mailing list,> send the message:> unsubscribe> (in the body of the message, with no Subject line)> to: birding-aus-requ...@vicnet.net.au> =========== >
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