Good morning all,
I have two observations that I think are worth noting.
Firstly, a white morph Grey Goshawk having fun IN a flock of Galahs almost over
my house in Kaleen at about 1600hrs on Friday (26th) afternoon. From
the size of the bird it was a male. A long time ago I had a Grey Goshawk land
on the clothes line in my backyard while I was having breakfast and there have
been several (probably not reported) records from what was CSIRO Wildlife,
which is only a moments flying time away as the Goshawk flies.
Secondly, my wife and I went for a wander around the ANBG for
a couple of hours yesterday (1030 – 1230). We wandered past the top of
the Crosbie Morrison Building, hit the boundary road/fence between the CSIRO
and the gardens, on to the bottom end of the Sydney Sandstone gardens, walked
through them to the top near the now empty plant storage area, along the road
above the top of the Eucalypt lawn, then down towards and into the rainforest
gully, coming out near the Bookshop. A quick visit was then made to the
Tasmanian gardens to see if the water dragons were about yet. The reason I have
detailed the route is that I found all the usual suspects seen in the gardens
EXCEPT for Superb Fairy-wrens. I finally saw a group of five in the Tasmanian
section – that was it!. What has happened to them? Usually they are the
first thing you see in the gardens and you are generally kicking the little
beasties out of the way. Has anyone else noticed this or was it just one of
those flukey things that sometimes happen?
Mark
