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As part of a small project I have I count sometimes
at a point on Mt Majura birds passing by in the afternoon on their way to a
roost, this includes Crimson Rosellas. This afternoon (30 Jan.) out of a total
of 102 birds only 7 were young, i.e. about 7% of the birds. Although in the past
I have not separated birds by age class, just from general impressions, the
count tonight would indicate very poor breeding success. Most birds passed as
pairs or groups of adults only, very few family parties were seen.
This is matched by day observations in the
suburb of Ainslie, on Mt Ainslie and a few other areas I visit: there are some
young around, but far fewer than in a "normal" year.
Clearly the drought is biting and even species we
may not consider to be too much affected, definitely are.
Michael Lenz
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