In response to Jack’s query, I haven’t seen or
heard our young Koel for a few days, maybe since Sat 25th, although
until then there was rarely a day that I didn’t notice it as it seemed to
move around in a fairly small area. I first noticed it and reported it to this
list on Tues 31st Jan. When I last looked at it about a week ago it
had a much longer tail than when I first saw it, very clear pale line across its
face, very clear mottled and barred patterns showing no signs of turning black.
I have it ticked in 4 successive weeks on my chart, but not this week. The
adult Koels have been much less in evidence around here this year than in the
previous 3-4 years. However yesterday morning I heard the “wirra wirra”
call coming from some tall pinus radiata in a park a couple of streets away. I
couldn’t see the bird that was calling, but the place the call was coming
from was where I first ever saw a Koel (male) around here about 4-5 years ago
when I went to track down the weird “ko-el” call. Not sure whether
this would be significant or a coincidence.
Cheers,
Sue Beatty,
Holder
