The Macquarie/Weetangera Koel has been
calling strongly morning and afternoon (from about 4.30pm) since last week.
Sue
From: Whitworth,
Benjamin - BRS [
Sent: Thursday, 25 October 2007
5:05 PM
To:
Cc: Whitworth, Benjamin - BRS
Subject: [canberrabirds] Common
Koel, Dollarbird, magpies and currawong song: GBS [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
Yesterday morning I had
a dollarbird at my GBS site in Hawker and on Tuesday morning had a Common Koel
and about 50 silvereyes flew through from the N East heading South West. A
couple of weeks ago I had a noisy friarbird.
Other than that my
recording of new GBS species has been minimal recently.
This may be due in part
to a super aggressive magpie that swoops me as soon as I get out into the front
yard. I haven’t been seriously swooped since I was 16, but this bird
swoops me even when I am looking directly at it (highly unusual)! I think it
got very angry that I was focussing on its nest with my binoculars- trying to
see inside the nest. It doesn’t seem to swoop anyone else, and it has
made surveying my GBS site dangerous and miserable over the past 2 weeks.
Last Thursday, a
currawong in our yard gave the chuck wee call from 4:30 am to 6:45pm, every 10
seconds. I think this is the call John Leonard heard although disagree with
Geoffrey, I think it is a different call. After over 14 hours of constant
calling, very loudly, I wish
I had a gun, either to kill the bird or myself- I had such a headache. The call
continued in my head for quite a while after the bird stopped. When it started
up again the next morning I was not happy. But, by the next day most of the
currawongs had left. I have recorded 22-28 currawongs in my GBS site for the
past 3 or so months.
But numbers are now only about 5 or 6.
Benj Whitworth.
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