Milburns wrote:
It is mid October and this reminds me that I have not heard a Boobook in
Canberra since before the bushfires of January 2003 (although I have
found them in daytime roosts). Is this a shared experience? If so does
anyone have a rationale for this? Clearly the species is still present
in the ACT but it has become very inconspicuous.
I heard one calling in the vicinity of the embassies on Empire Circuit
in Yarralumla a couple of nights ago. They've been around over the
last few years, but they have been a bit inconspicuous - probably as
much due to me not listening for them as anything else.
Gang-Gang and Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoos became more conspicuous for
a couple of years post inferno but they also appear to have decreased
in numbers during the last 12 months.
I haven't noticed any shortage of Gang-gangs in the Yarralumla/Deakin
area, but the large flocks of YTBCs have certainly departed; I heard
at least one a few weeks ago, which was the first for some time.
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Paul Taylor Veni, vidi, tici -
I came, I saw, I ticked.
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