Stephen,
That's a wonderful effort and thanks for taking the time to post - very
inspirational.
Re Brown Thornbills, I get regular visits in my garden in Blackburn (E.
Melbourne) despite not (yet) having much dense shrubbery. They seem to
inhabit the "middle storey" - even of quite open small trees. They are also
attracted to a water dish my parents put out for them in Camberwell around
1.5m off the ground. WBSW is an occasional but welcome visitor there :) They
may like moist, mulched ground (good luck this Summer) to forage in with
some overhead cover from predators?
Happy gardening and birding,
Mark
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Stephen Ambrose <>wrote:
> Early this morning I heard (and subsequently saw) an immature Eastern
> Whipbird in the undergrowth of our back garden in Ryde, inner suburban
> Sydney.
>
>
>
> This may not sound very impressive, but it is the first record for our
> garden in the 4.5 years that we have lived here. We are about 400 m upslope
> from Buffalo Creek which has a riparian corridor and where Eastern
> Whipbirds
> are heard most days. Our road is perpendicular to the creek and there are
> 10
> suburban properties and one road between us and the creek. It was not until
> I detected the whipbird that I realized that we and our neighbours have
> created a green corridor along the rear parts of our properties, comprising
> dense bushes and shrubbery. This corridor has been created by chance,
> rather
> than by design, but it nevertheless provides habitat for the dispersal of
> birds that prefer dense undergrowth.
>
>
>
> I am particularly pleased with this record because when we bought our house
> the back garden was just a buffalo grass lawn. Over the last 4.5 years
> we've
> slowly converted it to a garden with mostly native bushes and shrubs. The
> back garden next door to us, through which the whipbird is likely to have
> travelled, is badly neglected and is totally overgrown with woody and
> succulent weeds, much to our chagrin.
>
>
>
> It would be nice if we had White-browed Scrubwrens and Brown Thornbills,
> both of which occur along Buffalo Creek, come into our garden in the
> future.
>
>
>
> Stephen Ambrose
>
> Ryde, NSW
>
>
>
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