In Wangara St Aranda, about 400m from Black Mt, we had 11 Choughs during the first week of Jan. and an unknown number last week ~22to28 Feb. I haven’t seen any in the area since last year. I think they move through the area up into the Aranda spine and into the Aranda Bushland.
Peter
From: Janet Russell [
Sent: Monday, 4 March 2013 11:48 PM
To: Jenny Bounds
Cc: Canberrabirds
Subject: Re: [canberrabirds] White-winged Choughs in the suburbs
In Aranda we have had them very occasionally on our GBS site and close by. In the past year we recorded 8 in October and apart from a solitary one in the following month, they have not been seen. Our closest scrub is about 250 metres away and Black Mountain across the GDE is about 700 metres.
Janet
On 5 March 2013 17:48, Jenny Bounds <m("optusnet.com.au","jbbounds");" target="_blank">> wrote:
This afternoon, to my surprise, there were 6 Choughs in the street outside my Weston house, foraging on crushed acorns (from several Oak trees planted on neighbours nature strips). There were a couple of young birds in the group. This is the first time Ive recorded Choughs in my GBS for 10 years (last in winter 2002). Later I saw a couple of them moving east from tree to tree towards the green strip between Oakey Hill and and Mt Taylor (about 350 metres away). Has anyone had Choughs foraging similarly in their suburb away from the green strips?
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