On Monday I went with Belinda Cooke of the Swift Parrot
recovery team to get some footage of captive birds successfully raised by a
breeder in the Cessnock area. Down that way, once you got your eye in
there were small parrots everywhere with Little Lorikeets going over
regularly. Each morning they were active in the middle of Cessnock, and
probably all over the place. Now, what do you think is going on in the
following?
There was a cage of Musk Lorikeets and some slices of apple
were thrown on top of it. The bird with its back to the camera is captive
bird. The one through the wire is a wild bird that has come down to share
the food.
As to the Swift Parrots, Belinda followed up a report from
Alan Morris and found numbers of them in the streets of Bateau Bay on Tuesday
morning. Going there myself yesterday morning, there were certainly quite
a few in the streets behind the BB shops. It was a bit hard to estimate
numbers as they were mixed up with a lot of musks but I watched them for 2
hours and at one point there were 15 in a couple of trees, then 5 more flew in
and then another 10, so I’d say at least 30. Some juveniles.
