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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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