Tarago area, morning 31.12.06

["Overs, Anthony \(REPS\)" <>]

Hi Michael

 

Am I right in assuming that the Banded Lapwings bred there and the young are recently hatched and dependent? Could you comment on how unusual this breeding event is for the region?

 

Cheers

Anthony

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael & Janette Lenz [
Sent: Tuesday, 2 January 2007 5:19 PM
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Subject: [canberrabirds] Tarago area, morning 31.12.06

 

Still some news from the "old" year, at the same time best wishes to all for the "new" year!

 

Checked various spots in the Tarago area, highlights were:

Banded Lapwing: 1 pair with 3 young;

Sulphur-crested Cockatoo: already flock of 200;

Brown Songlark: 2 sites;

Singing Bushlark: total of 7, all in oat paddocks [notably both paddocks had been slashed/harvested, yet birds had remained; birds singing and disputing territories (at the November visit birds mainly sitting quietly on fences), wonder whether first nests may have been lost during slashing and birds were re-nesting now?];

White-browed Woodswallow: at least 22 pairs, scattered over a large area, they all appeared to have young; at accessible sites with one exception all young still on the ground, i.e. fledged very recently;

Musk Lorikeet: 3 birds passing through;

Night Heron: 2 adults roosting in pines.

 

Michael Lenz