Yes, seems to be a good year for them. Not over the last few days, but
during the couple of weeks before that we had a family with very noisy
young, rather like begging Galahs but louder. The mystery is where the
nesting was. One possibility is that adults nesting in the hills now
quickly bring young to the suburbs where they know the feeding opportunities
- perhaps using the same backyard feeders over successive seasons. Great
learners, parrots and cockatoos. Good crop of Catalpa beans coming up for
April, in fact suburban streets and gardens will have a stack of feed this
Autumn.
-----Original Message-----
From: Nick Payne
Sent: Sunday, 4 March 2012 8:49 AM
To:
Subject: King Parrot dy in Hughes
We saw a dy King Parrot yesterday. A young one was continuously begging and
being fed by a male adult at the top end of Chisholm St in Ainslie.
I took a couple of photos with the compact camera I had with me on the bike
- not much of a zoom on the camera and the parrots were just small dots in
the centre of the images. This is a crop from the centre of the frame that I
had to severely manipulate in GIMP to correct the two or three stops
underexposure with the backlighting.
Nick
On 04/03/12 08:00, John Leonard wrote:
> Despite the lack of breeding records for King Parrots in Canberra, I'm
> sure there are plenty of records of KPs with dy. However there was one
> yesterday morning in our yard in Hughes.
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