Re: A flush of Mynas

["martin butterfield" <>]

The place we are house-sitting at the moment in (Upper) Weston runs a GBS chart and that has reported 2 -4 mynahs each wek this year. 

 

That seems to be the pattern over the bits of the area which I have run in the past couple of weeks: I haven't noticed any large flocks, but perhaps they have been on the uphill bits where my eyes have been focussed on the patch of dirt between my feet than the surrounding countryside which is always sloping too steeply. 

 

On 1/13/07, Alford <> wrote:

Chris Davey wrote:

"I have been surprised at the lack of young Mynas around and had come to the conclusion that the breeding season had been poor.  This does not seem to have been the case for the Starling.  I had noticed though the continual flights between suburbs and paddocks and for the first time today I have had young begging birds in the garden.  From this I conclude that either the Mynas have bred late this year or all but the final clutches have failed.  Does anyone else have observations to confirm this?"

Chris

I activated a trap in mid Novemver and caught 8 MYNAs by the end of December. In the last 5 days I have trapeed 25 (in groups of 7,7,6 and 5),. All these birds have been taken to the RSPCA for processing. While most of these are probably?? young birds there have been some older adults among them.

I am unable to comment on whether there was a late breeding season but it is clear from the pattern above that the Mynas have been moving in some nomadic process in the last week or so.
 
Based on observations this morning there are at least 4 Mynas remaining at the Illoura horse paddocks, one of the two principal feeding nodes in the Lyons-Curtin area-the other being dog/cat food in people's yards..

i think the breeding season for Mynas, whenever that was, has been quite reasonable-at least in his area. It will be interesting to see whether the trapping pattern is as intense in the next week as it has been in the last week. 

Mynas are still around, but the pattern is obviously resource dependent.

Alan Ford  

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