Hi all,
I was wondering how many COGgies are doing both a Garden
Bird Sheet AND operating a Common Myna/ Common Starling/ Eurasian Blackbird
trap and how are the two being “co-ordinated“ for want of a better
word. Also how many people are supplying supplementary feeding, which is not
recorded as far as I am aware on the GBS sheet, to attract birds to their
gardens thereby, to my way of thinking, providing what I feel is false data. I
know what effect feeding has as I used to feed a lot of the larger, so called
predatory birds and at times had up to 50-60 Pied Currawongs and, when they
could organise their timing, 2 pairs of Australian Magpies. I gave up because
it became too expensive to feed them all. Now I am throwing out small amounts
of Budgerigar mix to attract the Crested Pigeons which in the space of about
two weeks have gone from 2 to, at last count, 12, plus dozens of Galahs. The
idea in the case of the currawongs and now the pigeons was/is a potential
banding study. I don’t do a GBS for several reasons, but mostly because I
was/am away from home too much.
Any opinions?
Cheers,
Mark
