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g'day all,
The Dollarbirds are
building up in numbers from first arriving 3 weeks ago.
I heard a single Common
Koel a week ago and today heard them at half a dozen locations. I hope
this rain/storm bird converts today's clouds into rain ! But no sign yet of the other rain/storm bird, the Channel-billed
Cuckoo Perhaps we need both species calling in concert to get rain
?
A few Common Greenshanks
have arrived and are feeding along pools in the Leichhardt River and
the Sewage Ponds.
A pool 300m South from the City centre
has a pair of Black Swans, with the normal waterfowl.
It is occasionally also visited by a Jabiru that slowly walks
up to the low bridge at the south end of the CBD. It is probably the same one
that parades up and down opposite the Moondarra Caravan Park.
The Cloncurry Parrot race
of Ringneck is a permanent resident at our Golf Course. This morning a couple of
pair were chatting each other up. On Wednesday 10-12 were feeding on the 1st
green. It must be mating season as my golfing partner got dive bombed by a
Magpie.
A pair of Spotted
Bowerbirds are building a new bower a little distance from one that was
abandoned earlier in the year. It is alongside the Railway line, 200m from my
home.
Regards,
Bob Forsyth, Mount Isa, NW
Queensland.
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