Re: A funny old season

[Martin Butterfield <>]

Subsequent to the above message I looked at the Bird Info page for Pallid Cuckoo on the COG website  Among the interesting data on the page is this graph 

​suggesting the record is indeed early, but not outrageously so.

Well done Steve/Paul/Julian for this excellent resource.  I hope it is getting well used!

Martin

Martin Butterfield

http://franmart.blogspot.com.au/

On 4 August 2014 08:23, Martin Butterfield <> wrote:

Following my comment on Saturday last (1/8) that the local Frogmouths appear to have started nesting 3+weeks earlier than in other years, more twigs have been aaded to the nest each night.  After using the same day-roost site every day that I have been home since mid-April, they have also shifted their roost about 200m North to a site never before used pre-breeding, but that may be totally unrelated to the nest building.

This morning while in the Upper El Rancho area of Carwoola I heard clearly, and several times, the call of a Pallid Cuckoo.  It was coming from a bit to the North of our property at about 820m AMSL.  I think the call could be translated as "Why did I get fooled by the warm weather last week?"

Martin Butterfield

http://franmart.blogspot.com.au/