seem to have moved into my local area over the past week.
From just the single distant calling over the past month, a bird was
performing its nuptial flight at the SW corner of the Narrabundah Hill reserve
yesterday.
This morning a bird was doing the same on the SW side of the NW end of
Cooleman Ridge, and there were at least 4 more territories being established on
the lower slopes into the horse paddocks along the next km heading SE.
This compares with very few records over the past couple of years, and it
appears to be a sign of drying conditions of the drying conditions with the
birds moving into less preferred habitat, ie they are only there when it’s too
dry elsewhere.
Jack Holland
