From: John Harris [
Sent: Saturday, 12 October 2013 8:28 AM
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Subject: [canberrabirds] Blue-winged Parrot Dear everybody, Thank you for entering so enthusiastically into the discussion of the Blue-winged parrot. These discussions are one of the pleasures of joining to COG which I only did last year. I am not a newcomer to birdwatching, only to COG. I am confident I saw a BWP. I hand raised a fledgling when I was 17, my uncle used to have them for sale in the 1940s and 50s and I have seen many elsewhere in the wild. But of course it may have been an escapee. I think it is a bit easy for committed COG folk to forget that there are other very determined and experienced birdwatchers in Canberra who do not belong to COG. I was one of them once. Some are loners, others, like me, just never got around to it, happy in their private birdwatching world. I twice saw a pair of BWP in 2010 drinking from the low level crossing they have put in Gininderra creek behind the Kangaroo Close houses where I live. The following year, 2011, a friend, also an avid birdwatcher, came hurriedly to say there was a pair of BWP near the Ginninderra dam wall. We went back to find it but someone with a dog beat us to the tree and I saw them fly off, too indistinct for me to be certain but my friend was adamant. Furthermore, if you search for BWP in the Eremea site, you will find reports of a BWP from two separate observers at Campbell Park in February of THIS YEAR 2013. Thank you all again for your interest, knowledge and enthusiasm.
Following on from the discussion of Blue-winged parrots, another probable sighting, almost certainly of a Turquoise Parrot, in MacGregor Street, Deakin, last Tuesday, about 8.45am. My wife gave a very precise description and picked it out of Pizzey & Knight with no uncertainty. She described it as about Rainbow Lorikeet size, and flew in a "bouncey way" like the lorikeet. Body mainly yellowy green, intense blue wings, red "on shoulders or upper chest". It was sitting on a front lawn and took off across the road in front of her.
DN
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