Koel Behaviour so far

["Jack & Andrea Holland" <>]

Thanks Philip, I certainly agree while it is easy to hear Koels calling, locating them when calling some distance away can prove to be very difficult, particularly so far this year.

 

In the past 3 or so seasons while there have been more Koels around than before in my local area, I can’t recall getting one record in my GBS site.  One sounded very close this morning but by the time I was outside to try to find it, it had moved away already.

 

Jack Holland

 

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One or two Koels have been heard at least once on most hours (or a bit less during the middle of the day), every day, from within my GBS area for the past two weeks. I have gone out to see them I think 4 times and succeeded 3 of those times. One of which was somewhat further away, about 1 km from home (closer to the Kambah sports field, but was within the GBS Site at other times of the week). I was thinking at the time that for such an obvious sound it can be very hard to get a good idea of the location it is coming from. On Monday night one was heard from home, calling somewhere near here at about 10:30 p.m.

 

Philip Veerman

24 Castley Circuit

Kambah  ACT  2902

 

02 - 62314041

 

 

-----Original Message-----From: Jenny Bounds [ Sent: Wednesday, 14 November 2012 9:14 AM      To:       Subject: Re: [canberrabirds] Koel Behaviour so far

I heard a Koel calling in the distance last Saturday evening around 7pm as I arrived home in Weston.  Have not heard it since.

cheers

Jenny