The Heath Banksia flowers in autumn, or in winter in cooler areas.
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The Bush Rat (Rattus fuscipes) is attracted to the pollen and many bird species have been seen in the area, visiting this plant. They include honeyeaters: the Eastern Spinebill , New Holland Honeyeater , the Red Wattlebird and Little Wattlebird, as well as the Silvereye, which is omnivorous.
Silvereyes raise their chicks in spring and early summer (mainly between September and December), making a tiny nest cup of grass, moss, hair, spiderweb, and thistledown that is suspended from a branch fork in the outer reaches of small trees or shrubs.
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In late summer silvereyes gather into flocks and migrate to the North.
Some of the birds we see may have come from Tasmania.
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They call constantly while foraging during the day and then fly long distances through the night.
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