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Over
the last 10 years or so on work trips to Sydney I have several times seen YTBC's
feeding in the roadside plantings between the airport and the golf courses. A
dangerous thing for not a particular agile bird to do in one of the busiest
traffic areas in Sydney.
Regards
Peter
Mellor
-----Original Message-----
From: Julian
Robinson [
Sent: Wednesday,
22 February 2006 11:54 AM
To:
Subject: Re: [canberrabirds]
Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoos
A gaggle at the Bot Gardens and
three on the golf course in Narrabundah this week are the first I have seen in
Canberra in 6 months at least (but from other posts that just shows I haven't
been looking). A friend tells me that she has seen several in inner
Sydney near the airport in the past few weeks (which is near a golf club
too). So do YTBCs have a town/country cycle even in non-post-bushfire
times?
Julian
(bird novice, but I do know a black cockatoo when I
see one! My father used to shoot red tails in arid far north Queensland
in less enlightened times, because they were shredding our only tree.
Until the local cop turned up on the doorstep and asked him to desist. I am
not sure if this was because they were protected even then (about 1958), or
only because he was worried about flying bullets in the middle of a town of
8000 people. Either way, I envy those comparatively simple times, when
nature was only something to be tamed. (Not because it was right, but
because things were much less complicated.))
At 08:11 PM
21/02/06, you wrote:
A pair of
YTBCs alighted on a Pinus canariensis in my backyard this evening.
They are the first I have recorded for my GBS chart this year (ie recording
year, since July 2005). I also heard some, but did not see them,
somewhere over Lake Burley Griffin near the Yarralumla Yacht Club about 0900
this morning. This is not far from my home and may have been the same
pair.
Are they still being seen
commonly around Canberra? I can't remember recent
postings.
David
Rosalky
Deakin
Julian
Canberra, Australia
Photos last updated Oct 05
- http://www.users.on.net/julian.robinson/photo-new/photo-new.htm
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