Dear COGs,
I saw these feathers on Callum Brae (Zoo Corner) this
morning. Have no idea what bird they are from. Colour-wise, they
look about the same as the breast feathers of a hobby, but are they all breast
feathers? There is no suggestion of banding on any of them.
Would appreciate any help with this puzzle (for
me).
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While on the subject of Zoo Corner, I was very happy to find the
small birds returning to the location after so much undergrowth was cleared away
2-3 years ago.
White-throated gerygone,
Weebill,
Grey fantail
Superb fairy-wren,
Yellow-rumped thornbill,
and a small bird with a “zitting” sound, possibly a striated
thornbill or scrubwren, or hopefully, speckled warblers, but somehow the sound
wasn’t quite like theirs.
Across the fence in the zoo grounds a corella pair were looking
very domestic in a nicely smoothed tree hollow.
Three yellow-tailed black cockatoos flew over and went
somewhere.
Well worth visiting.
Leaf curl spiders are hanging from practically every dead or
living sapling.
Margaret Leggoe
