canberrabirds

it's all happening in Macquarie

To: "Frank Antram" <>, <>
Subject: it's all happening in Macquarie
From: "Lashko Susan" <>
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 14:48:18 +1100
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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