Dogs complained about being left out of the story. ‘Hey we were there too’, they say, ‘as well as all those noisy burts’. Not good subjects for a long lens and don’t really help, but easier to count
From: Geoffrey Dabb [
Sent: Wednesday, 18 February 2015 8:31 AM
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Subject: [canberrabirds] More GGs
Combination dog walk and Gang-gang photography this morning. Standing on Rocky Knob (0710-0740) I could hear GGs from all points of the compass. Very hard to count but conservatively at least 20. A post-roosting pre-feeding aggregation. By 0730 they had largely dispersed with just the odd croak heard now. In below blue-framed part flock only 2 of 8 appear to be males, but there are 5 of 9 in the other (red framed) flock. Most are open-billed (eg inset), giving an idea of the cacophony at the height of the gathering.
