Suburban
birdwatching: a typical experience
For the last few weeks a koel has been calling every day in the
Rocky Knob area, it seems at any time of day, certainly in the early morning
before sunrise. On reading Mark’s message at 0730 I cocked an ear,
and sure enough there was the chap at it again just over the back fence
(I thought). Thinking ‘OK this time I’ll just nail the exact
location’, I set off accordingly. Some time later, across
Caley and over Captain Cook, deep in Griffith, near the shops, I found him at his
station at the top of a Pin-Oak in Strzelecki Cr (don’t think of living
there unless you can spell it). This was 700 METRES from where I could
hear him at my house.
And how many times have we had this view of the species?
From: Michael & Janette Lenz
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Sent: Sunday, 2 December 2007 8:21 AM
To: chat line
Subject: [canberrabirds] koel
A
koel has been calling before and at every dawn chorus heard from Ainslie since
I have been back. But, of course, the call carries well in the quiet early
morning so I cannot tell its exact location. I think the birds are no longer
much of a rarity?
