Good morning all,
To add to the recent records of urban Grey Butcherbirds, this morning from about 0800, I had 2 GB’s in my Kaleen yard. I heard a GB yesterday in the distance to the north east of my house. In over 30 years of living here this is the first record of the species I have had in Kaleen. Initially the birds were sitting out in the open on a power line in pouring rain but did eventually move into a Banksia and Eucalypt in the yard. I think it was Geoffrey Dabb who commented about another record that most of the records locally were of juvenile birds dispersing from where they were bred. The two birds this morning were a fully plumaged adult that has spent the last 15 minutes calling its heart out and a bird that in bird banding terms I would age as a second year (minus), i.e., a bird that is past its initial juvenile plumage and probably into its second year of life or less. A nice sight and sound combination indeed.
I will be putting in a COG Incidental Record form and it is on my GBS chart.
Mark
