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There
have been Rainbow Lorikeets hanging around Hawker, Scullin all winter, spring
and early summer. Have not seen them recently. They were
particularly attracted to the banksias in our yard, and took no prisoners when
the resident wattle birds, who own our banksias, tried to see them
off.
Paul
FWIW,
I recall seeing Rainbow
Lorikeets - perhaps 8 or so - one evening back in Spring flying back and forth
on Hawker ridge between the gardens that overlook the ridge (along Marrakai
St) and a couple of large eucalypts in the paddocks just south of the Nature
Park. I'm sure someone else mentioned them at around the same
time...
John Brannan
Marnix Zwankhuizen wrote:
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.
.
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From: "Ian Fraser" <>
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Cc:
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Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006
1:50 PM
Subject: Re: [canberrabirds] A superb
reflection
> this line is at its best when people are
prepared to stick their heads out
> and speculate, especially when
based on what data we
have.
>
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