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Corellas etc

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Subject: Corellas etc
From: "Jack and Andrea Holland" <>
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 12:55:55 +1100
Lots of them around my patch in NW Chapman too at the moment, with a loose flock of more than 80 birds passing through my GBS site this morning on their way into the suburbs, and then at least half of them returning to go back out in the Cotter direction within an hour.
 
Numbers have been increasing over the past month as they have been feeding in the prolifically seeding wattles in the area.  They seem to like them while they're still relatively green, and no longer favour them now that most have dried out and the seeds are dropping to the ground.  Perhaps the reason for them banding together is to look for another food source?
 
Almost completely Little Corellas too, I've only identified one Long-billed over this time, though of course they very hard to tell apart as they fly through and you're trying to count them as well.
 
Red-rumped parrots have also become much more obvious over the past week or so, including in my GBS site.
 
A surprise is the prolific flowering of some planted mugga ironbarks, though there seems to be little bird life in them, possibly due to a low nectar flow.
 
Jack Holland
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