I wonder if thats the same Rainbow Lorikeet seen hanging around Callum
Brae woodland reserve some months ago.
Cheers
Marnix
On 1/18/06, *Geoffrey Dabb* <
<>> wrote:
Re the below personal preference, well. I can sort of understand
that, in a
way. However, for me, the value of speculation and surmise
depends so often
on the factual base and the insightfulness of the surmisor. On
the other
hand, for my own preference, observations, novel and opportunistic or
hard-won, are the really choice fare, and the occasional golden
kernel of
bird-observation that may be garnered on this ever-fruitful
chatline is
indeed a speck of the precious metal.
Around where I live, the last few days show that the mature-summer
'move'
season is truly in progress. The Dollarbirds are a main feature
of this.
Probably 2 families of these have already gone through. Far from
this being
unusual, I expect more of them as late summer wears on. The
yammering of
juvenile Crimson Rosellas has been particularly insistent this
year, the
variation in their sounds making one think that one or more new
species have
moved into the neighbourhood. A Brown Thornbill, certainly not a
resident
bird, has been yodelling softly and often from the silver
birch. Four or so
Little Corellas have been constant noisy visitors in the early and
late
parts of the day, fewer, though, than will be around in mid-winter.
The koels are a puzzle. Just how many of them are there? I have
glimpsed
at least 2 different birds, both males, one dullish, one
glossy. I suspect
that it is the dullish bird that is constantly about, calling at
any time of
day - or night.
On top of that, I have a FIRST. I have seen Rainbow Lorikeets in
many
places - even in Melbourne, where they were quite unknown when I
lived
there - but never a free-flying bird in Canberra: until today,
when one
turned up at a feeder at the base of Rocky Knob, holding its own
among the
corellas and cockatoos, a self-possessed green-and-orange
stranger, a sleek
and cheeky reminder of the dictum that given time anything can turn
up
anywhere.
.
