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Today, Sun 29/7 i went to see the Powerful owl and
witnessed interesting incident: a gang of whitearmbanded choughs began to gather
around the base of the p bark tree where owl is currrently; more and more
choughs arrived and they began ascending the owl tree gradually gettin closer
and closer and higher, doing vertical tail waving aggressive moves; owl quite
perturbed, stretched its neck out making head resemble an eagle and peered about
at this invasion; then a ranger appeared and told us watchers he'd placed a dead
wood-duck (road accident victim) in vicinity of owl tree and he thought the
choughs may have regarded it as theirs and hence the `attack' they were mounting
on the owl; ranger removed duck and the choughs gradually dispersed.. owl
relaxed....
also saw the Little Wattle Bird; but missed out on
the B thrush; returning to car at end of this long and exciting a'noon, found a
grey currawong near the mudguard
This ranger v friendly and helpful and interested
in COG + its chatline, would like Bot Gdns to be informed by this, to improve
his rangering; name of Greg (??) Flowers; i said he should join the ANBG
to COG; maybe COG could consider offer discount sub to them to
restore/retain friendly relations??
Sz
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