G'day Phil,
There has been a series of territorial
incursions happening across the access road near the highway but
I've not seen any of the birds flying high like you describe. It
seems that the group to the west of the access road have lost
the peninsular of land that juts to the east. I'm not sure that
this argument is settled yet. the crossing point of the road for
the western birds has been near the southern point of the area
marked and for the eastern birds near the 'rr' in Barrine.
I'm curious to know if this is where your
event occurred.
In Gadgarra I've seen a territorial
dispute where two males from one team were at about five and
eight metres and an unseen bird from the neighbours was at about
the same height. In Boongie recently I disturbed a feeding group
and they moved off along the ground fairly quickly with one bird
flying in stages up to a height of about four or five metres and
away from me before I lost it. My focus was on other things at
the time and I did not take careful note but I think there were
four birds in the group, including one begging juvenile.
Regards,
Alan
Alan's Wildlife Tours
2 Mather Road
Yungaburra 4884
Phone 07 4095 3784
Mobile 0408 953 786
http://www.alanswildlifetours.com.au
On 1/09/2021 12:00 pm, Phil Gregory
wrote:
I had an odd thing
happen Aug 30 at Lake Barrine- we walked towards where some
Chowchillas were calling and suddenly 3 appeared flying quite
high overhead and darting through some branches in a large tree
maybe 15-20 m up; they may have doubled back round as they began
calling again not too long after, or perhaps an intruding group
got chased off. I have never seen this bird fly high at all,
they are always on or very near the ground and only fly short
distances, so I was quite taken aback! I suspect it was an
intruding group that got seen off, as two lots were calling
initially.
Regards
Phil Gregory
ornithological writer/tour leader/tour
facilitator
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