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Martin,
excellent stuff., many thanks! Once my Ainslie
survey is completed I can give numbers of Red Wattlebird and Noisy Friarbird
pairs for the suburb (and compare that to 30 years ago). Of note is that
the Cobb Crescent area, where Carol Dow has noted the Koel pair, has
certainly a good number of Red Wattlebirds. But depending on how widely the
female Koel searches for nests, there are also several Noisy Friarbird nests,
including one under construction (as of Sunday), rel. close to Cobb
Crsc.
As mentioned in an earlier message, garden
development would be the major reason for the increase in Red Wattlebird numbers
in comparison to earlier years when gardens at least in the inner North
consisted all too often of just lawn, roses and a few other bushes if any, some
times a hedge.
Michael Lenz
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