White Throated Tree Creeper

TREE CREEPER WHITE THROATED

I have spoken about the drought of birds in this area over the last few months.


The weather has been very hot on some days, 40+ degrees but cooler and damp on other days. It is hard to explain the lack of birds on weather.

Others from the area have made the same comments. There have been similar experiences from bird watchers  in areas a hundred kilometres away.

But things change. Whilst sightings are still not what they have been, there has been a significant rise in numbers since February began.

'The birds are back!' Dianne  said he other day.

 I went for a walk in the bush on Monument Hill yesterday and there were birds about.

I watched a number of these White-throated Treecreepers. I saw six and more feeding, climbing tree trunks as they went.

They are a small greyish bird, sometimes difficult to see on the greyish tree trunks. But as they climb, pecking at the bark as they go, they slip in and out of the sunshine.

They are quite beautiful, with a brown chest streaked with white. The small rufous spot below the ears is an easily recognizable sign of who they are.

This final photograph, poorly focused as it is, shows this bird climbing a tree trunk, as fast as a sprinter, all feet off the tree.