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Hi All
I sent a message around a couple of weeks ago
(below) regarding paralotes outside my window. This is an update . .
They have continued to be around, and over the past
week or so it's been the female that has been much more aggressively
territorial. The general pattern seems to be that she'll spend 5 minutes or so
agitatedly on one of the small branches less than half a metre from the
window, bobbing her tail up and down, and every now and again flying at the
window, just touching, flying upwards close to the window until she's above it,
then back to her branch. (The male did not ever fly into the window straight
from the regular perch branches, and after his week or so of bobbing and
bristling he spent a lot of time preening and singing.) She'll then fly off
for 10 minutes or so (sometimes an hour or so), then be back. Sometimes with the
male, who does not appear as interested in the reflections any more (maybe he's
worked it out . . .). Sometimes they flit
about about together, doing little aerial acrobatics etc. There are a few
other pardalotes about - I notice about 5 in the hakea about once or twice every
day or so. I do not spend all day staring out the window, but this is a
good spot for viewing paradlotes at the moment . . .
Following other comments over the past week or so -
there have been many more small birds in my garden over this summer - fairy
wrens, eastern spine bills, scrub wrens, thorn bills (various & numerous),
white-throated tree creeper, grey fantails, and lots of birds high in the big
eucalypts that I can't recognise. Recent visitors have included red-browed
finches & grey currawong (chased off by wattle bird after scratching around
on the ground & probing under bark). Have not seen any silver-eyes for a few
weeks. A local pair of kookaburras come every few days, perch above the pond
with fish visible, but scratch around in the bark & leaves on the ground
rather than bother the fish (the only bird I have known to catch a fish
is one of our resident magpie larks that caught a baby fish about 2.5
cm long).
cheers
Barbara Preston
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