Barbara Allan and I revisted the oval about 8pm yesterday and it appeared that
the Superbs were roosting there for the night.
Then this morning about 8, I went again to see if I could count juveniles as
well as M and F. Unfortunately the birds were extremely flighty, perhaps due
to a female Koel and/or a couple of very pesky cockies which swooped the
Superbs when they settled on the ground. Alistair Smith and I estimated about
20% males, and when finally a group of about 40 settled (after Alistair left),
I counted approx 50% female, 30% juvenile. There appeared to be at least
another 40 birds in the trees all around the oval.
There was also a great ruckus when about 20 Mynas, 4 Magpie-larks and 2 Magpies
mobbed the Koel.
Barbara - this is the 3rd different Koel in Macquarie - a male, a sub-adult
male (I think - is dark but has some irregular brown patches on its front) and
this morning's female.
Sue
-----Original Message-----
From: Frank Antram
Sent: Thu 1/12/2006 5:32 PM
To: Lashko Susan
Cc: Geoffrey Dabb
Subject: it's all happening in Macquarie
Wow, I wish I was back at our house in Bennelong Crescent! My neighbour says
they are visiting our pond, although he didn't know what they were (thought
they might be juvenile rosellas) until I forwarded him Geoffrey's 'Greetings
from Belconnen' postcard! I'll be back from my NZ sojourn in early March...but
they'll probably have moved on by then!
Regards
Frank
-----Original message-----
From: "Lashko Susan"
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 13:36:30 +1100
To:
Subject: it's all happening in Macquarie
> I did my morning walk today via Macquarie oval where I counted 84 Superb >
> Parrots of which only ~15-20 were adult males. (I only had my small >
> lightweight binos with me so couldn't separate juveniles and females >
> without flushing them all).Most were feeding on the southern edge of the >
> oval in either the 'browned off' grass or the lush green grass on the > slope
> above - here they were almost invisible to the naked eye. This > was at
> 8.15. A koel was also calling.
>
> I continued across the oval heading north and saw 16 more on the corner > of
> Fulton and Catchpole Streets - these then flew off towards the oval. > From
> there I walked to Belconnen Markets and found another 10 in the > trees at
> the northern end of the carpark - they too flew off towards > Macquarie oval.
> Then I walked through to Nettlefold Street and found 6 > more on the corner
> of Josephson Street feeding in the tops of eucalypts.
>
> I then did a loop through the eastern half of Page and the eastern edge > of
> Weetangera but didn't find any more. However, I'm reasonably > satisfied
> that I saw at least 116 different Superbs.
>
> Sue
>
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