Hi
V,
Well
it surely would have been one, nothing else similar. By the way, not necessarily
female. Presumably about half of the green ones are female. Seeing the full blue
plumage is infrequent. Strangely, although over the last few years I have
normally had one or two sightings per year of fully blue birds in my GBS area, I
have never seen one in the intermediate patchwork pattern here of transition
from non breeding to breeding plumage (I have seen 1 or 2 of them at
Tidbinbilla). This in contrast to most other birds with seasonal or age related
plumage changes where you often see these transition stages.
About
two weeks ago I was a bit surprised to see a group of about 20 green Satin
Bowerbirds on the western side of Mount Taylor. I have about 15 green Satin
Bowerbirds in my GBS area every day through winter.
Philip Veerman
24 Castley Circuit
Kambah ACT 2902
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62314041
About 1.30 pm today, I believe I saw a satin bowerbird
(female) not far from the edge of Tuggeranong Hill. It was on the ground
foraging amongst quite thick grasses and some rocks, then flew in to the
trees. I can't think of anything else as was definitely green on top and
brown/white underneath and was of a medium size. Did not see a black male nearby
only another brown bird of similar size whizzing by but not up close. I have
never seen one before. Also lots of parrots (eastern and crimson rosellas in the
park now, including numerous juveniles), plus some soaring raptors (saw a wedge
tail the other day), maggies, currawongs, galahs, sulphur crested cockatoos and
crested pigeons. The little corellas have not been seen by me for some time now
(here or in my yard).
V
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