Hot days = weird bird behaviour

[gemfyre]

The front birdbath was being plagued with brown, rufous throated and singing honeyeaters as well as flycatchers, willie wagtails, double-barred and long-tailed finches, rainbow bee-eaters, little friarbirds, yellow white-eyes, peaceful doves. Two bowerbirds were bouncing around in the trees above.

And a pair of goshawks were monopolising the back baths. Usually when a goshawk is around the birds scatter, but I guess today they were all just too damn hot.

Spent a plesant morning sitting in the air-conned mud lab, listening to music and sorting specimens. Now back in the hot office with just a fan. I wish I could get away with not mudding at all and just doing ALL the sorting instead.

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You're the bird gal...

[drhoz.livejournal.com]

so you should know this - what ausie bird is it with the hole right thru it's head to give it a much larger virtual haed size? so it can tell what direction its otherwise too deeply pitched breeding calls are coming from?