Thanks everyone, it's sounds like it's surprising I haven't seen one here
before. It just came back a second time, so it looks like it might be a regular
now.
Peter Shute
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> From: James Mustafa
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> To: Paul Dodd
> Cc: Janine Duffy; Peter Shute;
> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Pied Currawongs in Docklands (Melbourne)
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> I know they're regularly seen in the botanical gardens. Very
> common in there now.
>
> On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 11:13 AM, Paul Dodd
> <> wrote:
>
>
> I see them reasonably frequently in South Melbourne
> (Dorcas St, Moray St and
> Bank St) too. I would be surprised if they weren't in
> Docklands, Albert
> Park, Middle Park, Albert Park Lake and even in the
> Royal Botanical Gardens
> also.
>
> Paul Dodd
> Docklands, Victoria
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> To: Peter Shute;
> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Pied Currawongs in Docklands
> (Melbourne)
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> Hi Peter
> We've been seeing them on and off around Port
> Melbourne for a few years
> now. So I wouldn't be surprised if they are coming
> through Docklands
> as well.
> Janine
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> [5]Peter Shute
> Monday, 15 September 2014 9:58 AM
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> Last week I heard a Pied Currawong calling near the casuarina
> plantation in Navigation Drive in Docklands, and
> just now one landed on
> the roof of the builidng opposite where I work.
> I submitted a Birdline for last week's bird, but it
> was rejected on the
> grounds that PC sightings around the CBD are common
> now. Fair enough,
> especially as they've been regularly seen around the
> zoo for years now,
> but it was my first sighting of them in Docklands
> that I've had in the
> 6 years since we moved here.
> I'm wondering if this is just part of a general
> spreading of their
> range, or a sign that the trees in Docklands, most
> of which are less
> than 10 years old, are maturing to the point that
> they are now
> attractive to them. Or possibly just that residents
> are now feeding
> them. Have others seen them in Docklands before?
> Peter Shute
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