Howdy All,
Firstly, a thank you to those who gave directions for the AIS
location of the birds.
I spent an hour there this evening and saw a bunch of youngsters and
a few adults, all moving around quite a lot. There were a lot of
begging young, even if they weren't managing to attract any attention
from anyone on most occasions. They obviously just set up a constant
begging in the hope that a parent or an adult passes by that can be
influenced. I also saw a pair of immatures where one was feeding
the other? Is this normal? The feeding individual was on the branch
above, and the begging individual was below, with the top one going
through the motions as an adult would (although obviously it needed a
bit of polishing.... looked a bit more like some sort of fit rather
than a head bobbing parent <grin>) and the lower one gave every
indication that it was receiving sustenance from the action. It
wasn't something I would expect to see, or was it just one of the
aforementioned influenced bird that couldn't resist the begging
call? Both were definitely not adult colouration.
There were also lots of Eastern Rosellas there, including numerous
youngsters, many begging. And HEAPS of Noisy Minors.
I hope the lady I bumped into as I was leaving managed to get some
good pictures. As I was leaving there appeared to be many more
adults moving into the area. I would have loved to have stayed and
watched further, but my wife is ill and I didn't want to be away from
home for too much longer. Hopefully they posed nicely for the photographer.
Thanks again for the directions on where to see them. It was a
lovely hour spent wandering around looking at and for them.
Cheers.
Paul T.
Higgins, ACT
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