"Crimson Chat." by Laurie R B is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 October Bird of the Month: the Crimson Chat Image courtesy Wayne Weatherstone This is number 10 of a 12 part series in which we take a bird recorded in Gladstone Weatherstone's notebook between 1962 and 1981, see if anything is different today and, if so, try to explain why. Gladstone was an expert amateur naturalist who lived on Lyndfield Park near Gunning from 1941 until 1996. 1969: A Unusual Year Image: Brett Donald, Own Work CC BY- SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. Gladstone's notebook tells us " 1969 was the mildest Winter since coming here in 1941 " and, as a result, "many of the normal migratory species remained throughout; viz Blue Jays, Honey-eaters, Kestrels, Gill-birds and one or two others ". His "Blue Jays" we know as Black-faced Cuckoo-shrikes [pictured at right] and "Gill-birds" are our very familiar Red Wattle-birds. The ...
Upper Lachlan Shire, Southern Tablelands, New South Wales