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Breeding- creche: Gallery, Glenloch, LG [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

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Subject: Breeding- creche: Gallery, Glenloch, LG [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
From: "Whitworth, Benjamin - BRS" <>
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 13:26:23 +1100
There is a lot of breeding going on:
National Gallery: I had planned to visit the sculpture garden for the last time 
on Wednesday but Con and Nick beat me to it. Nevertheless, had a great time. 
Saw the pied currawongs cf to the nest, plus noisy miners with 2 dy near the 
entrance. In one tree further in near the lake was a 'crèche' of 5 species with 
dependent young, including magpie larks with 3 dy, white plumes with 2 dy, 
willie wagtail with 2 dy, red wattlebird with 2 dy, and fairy wrens with >2dy 
(tiny- just out of the nest). A currawong flew in and was chased by ~10 adult 
birds, the most persistent being the wagtail. An obvious advantage of a crèche. 
Have other people noticed multi-species crèches?? Also, strangely, a sub-adult 
kangaroo was present.

Black Mountain- East of Glenloch Interchange-Friday. 2 olive backed orioles 
(swooping choughs), 6 white winged choughs with young in nest. 2 leaden 
flycatchers nest building, 3 sitellas-1 carrying food, 2 striated pardalotes 
with 1 dy, 2 noisy friarbirds with 3 dy. 2 white throated treecreepers, 16 
little ravens and 8 Aust ravens. 2 black faced cuckoo shrikes, 2 speckled 
warblers. 4 rainbow bee-eaters flew over. Crimson rosellas with dy. 3 
kookaburras. Yellow robin, grey currawong.

Lake Ginninderra-Western foreshores-Sunday: Lots of breeding. Dusky 
woodswallows nb and another group with 2 dy. Black faced cuckoo shrikes cf, 
magpie larks with 3 dy, red wattlebirds with 2 dy, kookaburra cf, 2 groups of 
mynas with dy, 64 starlings including many dy (probably > 20), Eastern rosella 
with dy, 10 swallows and 8 fairy martins. 28 little black cormorants, 1 great 
egret, 26 seagulls,1 domestic duck. 68 coots, 8 black ducks. I think I could 
hear reed warblers with ny.

Benj


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