When we first started visiting Mallacoota large flocks of Rainbow and Musk Lorikeets were a regular sight in Summer. Numbers of birds per flock seem to have declined, especially for Musk Lorikeets, in recent years. I have had a look at eBird records and it is I suspect too complicated to produce evidence to support that claim. However this year, especially in the last 2 months, numbers of Lorikeets seem to have risen again (if indeed they had dropped).
On our walk this morning there were lots of both species in some Callistemons near Fisheries Jetty so I went back with a chair and my camera.
Rainbow Lorikeet on Callistemons
Very surprisingly I did not see nor hear any Scarlet Honeyeaters in the 30 minutes I sat there. Usually flowering Callistemons are a magnet for them.t
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