New Holland Honeyeaters

NEW HOLLAND HONEYEATERS   Phylidonyris novaehollandiae

 

Kilmore is a small town.  Even though a small town, it is fascinating in terms of it's bird population. There are some birds which are common in one part of this small town and rarely seen in other parts of the town.

The New Holland Honeyeater is a good example of these differences of place.

When walking  in the new estates to the south of the town, there are always  New Holland Honeyeaters to be seen. Many of the new houses on the new estates and the retirement village, have extensive plantings of native plants. These of course attract the honeyeaters.

Around the Kilmore Station at Kilmore East too, there are also lots of native shrubs plants and flowering trees planted.



In the area where I live, what long time locals call the old part of Kilmore,  the gardens are full of  1960 plants, roses, camellias daffodils and European trees.
Hence not a great deal to attract the the native birds.


Well perhaps things are changing.

Today I found a group of New Holland Honeyeaters across the road from my home, on the Kilmore Golf Course.

Early March, but after all the rain in late summer we have trees and plants flowering out of season. Trees and plants which have been planted over the last ten years.


The honeyeaters were having a wonderful  time in amongst the bottle-brushes, the flowering eucalypts, and even the just coming into fruit, cotoneasters 

 So  nice to see and hear these busy little birds on our side of he town for a change.