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After a hectic day in the early nineties my wife
and I were relaxing with at our Durras c'van having a quiet drink and listening
to the music from Phantom of the Opera when a male and female Eastern
Whipbirds landed in a flowering bottlebrush not 10 feet away. For the
next ten minutes they entertained us with repeated deafening "whip" and
answering "choo choo" calls while moving around within the
same isolated bush. I had never before seen them stay in one
place for so long and haven't seen it since. In most of my whipbird
sightings they usually appear to be foraging and moving quickly thru
the scrub. Maybe they were attracted to the sound of the music.
Maybe they thought hey that's nice, but we can do better! Which they
surely did.
Cheers
Rod
Rod Mackay
Tel: 0407 456 330
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