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Various obs on Sunday morning

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Subject: Various obs on Sunday morning
From: "martin butterfield" <>
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 15:36:40 +1100
On my Sunday morning run a myna crossed one of the downhill bits of Hindmarsh Drive with a large caterpillar-like object in its beak.  This suggests it was going to feed a youngster in the vicinity of Waramanga. 
 
On a more positive note, having survived the run we were sitting down for breakfast when a ruckus erupted in the tree over head.  This turned out to be an extremely hungry juvenile Australia king-parrot attempting (succesfully) to persuade an adult male A k-p to provide some nutrients.  The adult then departed, returning somewhat later to the phone wires some 30 mettres away.  After spending this time eyeing off our frittata the juvenile decided the table service would be better on the wires and again got fed.  Since the juvenile didn't seem to be that strong a flyer, as well as getting its food the easy way, I have called this a DY record.  Theer are some parrot sized hollows on Oakey Hill so that might be an area to check next Spring for possible A k-p nest hollows.
 
We then drove to Captains Flat, delivering furniture to our daughter's house.  The drive down was livened up by a very large wedgetailed eagle sitting in a paddock cleaning up something.  Ingrid's house has a small, but absolute, frontage to the Molonglo Green Puddles in which a Nankeen night-heron was wandering about before posing beautifully on a stump.
 
Martin
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