Following on from my earlier report of lorikeets near my house in Kaleen, this morning I had 4 Rainbow Lorikeets feeding in a flowering Eucalyptus leucoxylon in my front yard. Their calls were not the usual call I would normally associate with Rainbow Lorikeets until they were chased out of the tree by one of the local belligerent Red Wattlebirds and then hassled by a magpie. The call then became the typical piercing screech the bird is usually recognised by.
Incidentally this is a new bird for my “yard” list as opposed to the area where I formerly did the garden bird survey – I did record a single Rainbow Lorikeet in a neighbour’s tree many years ago but not in my yard. Similarly, I do not count the Pacific Koel that landed in another neighbour’s yard about 2 metres from my boundary. The yard list and GBS sites ARE two different areas for recording bird presence. This, I believe, is the question Tonya Haff was trying to get an answer to. My yard list will be different to my former GBS site and certainly different to the Kaleen list. I know Viv Pinder gets birds on her side of Kaleen that I don’t get on mine. It was quite a simple question really.
Mark
