Where to find birds around Canberra

["Geoffrey Dabb" <>]

It’s Mulligans for robins

And Tuggeranong for crows,

The ‘Bidgee for the Painteds,

And Regents? – no-one knows.

 

Try Campbell Park for bronzewings

Bot Gardens for the owls,

Newline for busy shrike-tits

With their clear insistent howls.

 

The inner South for koels

Though some might say the north;

It doesn’t really matter

When the noisy bird holds forth.

 

It’s Aranda for the friarbirds

With croaks and gasps and clucks

And Holt for bright green parrots,

BUT BUNGENDORE FOR DUCKS

 

From: Martin Butterfield [
Sent: Saturday, 16 November 2013 4:54 PM
To: Geoffrey Dabb
Cc: COG List
Subject: Where to find birds around Canberra

 

The exercise of running over to the fence must have tired them out.  By 1600 hrs they were back resting on the grass between the Hoskinstown Rd (HR) Dam and the delightful Bungendore Meadows slum.  

 

I also checked the Trucking Yard Lane (TYL) dam where Pacific Black Ducks were very evident as were many cockatoos.  My total estimates for the two sites were :

 

		TYL	HR	Total
43	Crested Pigeon	6		6
202	Australian Wood Duck		10	10
205	Plumed Whistling Duck		15	15
207	Australian Shelduck	3	43	46
208	Pacific Black Duck	49	100	149
211	Grey Teal		50	50
271	Little Corella	2		2
269	Sulphur-crested Cockatoo	200	200	400
273	Galah	50	100	150
357	Welcome Swallow	2		2
954	Little Raven	10	20	30

 

At one point I thought I heard a Koel calling, but when I turned off the car radio (broadcasting an interview, from Brisbane, with Shane Watson that noise disappeared.  On a further sporting note, if watching lotsa dux is not exciting enough this afternoon was livened up by mounted cowpersons-in-training attempting to round up some cattle in the next paddock over.  My score was cattle 5 Cowpersons 0.

 

On 16 November 2013 16:35, Geoffrey Dabb <> wrote:

In a light drizzle at 2pm they were resting among other ducks by the dam off Hoskinstown Rd, when they formed into a discrete single-species platoon and marched over the shoulder of the dam, streaming  yellow plumes pointing crazily in all directions, then re-appeared to strut 200m across the paddock to the northern fence, past the indifferent cockatoos and grazing shelduck.  About 22 in all, despite the below composite

 

 

 

 

From: Suzanne Edgar [mailto:m("internode.on.net","sedgar");" target="_blank">]
Sent: Saturday, 16 November 2013 2:46 PM
To: 'KAMPRAD'; m("canberrabirds.org.au","canberrabirds");" target="_blank">
Subject: RE: [canberrabirds] Plumed Whistling-Duck at Bungendore

 

I saw them today in co. with Erika

Sz

 

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Martin Butterfield

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