Thanks Barbara, I’ve been doing the same, and on our walk this morning was
able to confirm a second fledgling, again fed by RWB, in the front gardens of
several houses at the Darwinia Tce end of Woollum Cres Rivett.
While this is only about 400 m away (as the Koel flies) from the earlier
record, they are clearly different as after a 5 minute walk I could locate the
latter still calling from the same dense exotic tree as I found it on 20
January.
Jack Holland
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Subject: [canberrabirds] more koel chicks
Yes Jack, Page is not letting you down. Chick 1 (“Noel” –
what else would you call a koel chick first seen on 21 Dec) stayed around till
23 Jan. As the adults are still around and calling, I assumed there were more
young about so the dog and I pounded the western Page pavements this evening. In
less than an hour we’d found two – one in Keartland St, with Red Wattlebirds in
attendance; one in the park at the end of Hannaford St. We’ll try other parts of
the suburb over the next few days. Earlier I did see two attempts by koels to
parasitise Magpie-lark nests but both have fledged Magpie-lark young. b
