Little Wattlebird, Powerful owl. ANBG [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

["Whitworth, Benjamin - BRS" <>]

Little wattlebird was seen at the Botanic Gardens at 4pm. It was found a little further-on from the previous record (below). Walk past the first CSIRO gate to a spot with a Bench seat on the North East side of the road and a Grevillea newbeyi on the South side of the road. It was in the Grevillea and some Banksias. It was pretty tame and at one stage was within 2m. The bird seemed fluffed up, perhaps sick and/or cold. We noted the bronze wings when ‘hawking’ and had good views of eye, breast, cheeks, head, very white tail tips, size, striations etc

I also saw the powerful owl in the tall paperbark. I checked its feet and it looked like something dark was there (prey?) but it could have been the branch.

Benj

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From:   Golo Maurer [m("anu.edu.au","golo.maurer");">]
Sent:   Thursday, 12 July 2007 12:36 PM
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Subject:        [canberrabirds] Brush Wattlebird

Hi everybody,

Apologies for late posting:
1 Brush wattlebird was hawking for insects in the Botanic gardens from a big Banksia near the CSIRO-gate (basically the end of the owl track).

Cheers

Golo
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