Hi Cassandra,
Welcome to COG.
I am a newish member myself for only a couple of years despite a lifelong
interest in birds and I have appreciated belonging. You are lucky to live
somewhere like Uriarra where there will be a wide range of bird life.
There¹s plenty of people on the COG chatline who will help you with ID but
nothing beats studying the COG site and consulting a good field guide,
paper or app (which you no doubt do already)! If you haven¹t done so
already, I suggest you get the Garden Bird Survey chart and start listing
your weekly sightings. It is a very helpful piece of discipline and forces
you to ID birds and once you know them you know them. And the data goes
into our store of ACT bird knowledge.
Cheers
John
On 24/04/2015 1:00 pm, ""
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>Hello,
>
>I'm new to COG and this list. I live in Uriarra Village. In the past
>week notable new birds visiting my garden and around my house are King
>Parrots flying into Blue Gum trees, two Satin Bowerbirds feeding on my
>Pink Lady apples and exploring my vegetable patch, and either a Flame or
>Scarlet Robin (I didn't know how to tell the difference at the time -
>just noticed the white on it's head and red breast - but I've since
>looked up all the useful info on your site so if I see it again I'll have
>a better shot at identifying it properly) in and around the branches I
>use for pea trellis. Plovers have recently returned and started hanging
>around an area they use for breeding every year.
>
>Crimson rosellas have been eating seed from the garden. Superb Fairy
>Wrens nested in the garden last season and I suspect they are hiding
>amongst some Hakeas right down the back of the garden but I'm not going
>to look around too much as I don't want to disturb them. A year or so
>ago I had a Red Capped Robin sitting on my stock fence just outside my
>window one day. Red Rumped parrots feed on the grassy weedy areas of the
>garden. Yellow tailed black cockatoos fly overhead down to the river in
>the morning and back up to the mountains at night. A heron (I'm not
>certain what species) comes to a sometimes boggy wet area of Themeda
>nearby. At dusk the local Kookaburras laugh. There are eagles that I
>often see soaring above Mount MacDonald and as I drove to town one
>morning as I drove up out of the Murrumbidgee area an eagle (I think a
>Wedgetailed eagle but maybe a Little Eagle - certainly a large eagle type
>bird) flew at window level directly across the road in front of my car
>and it was carrying a squirming small rat or small marsupial in its
>claws. I could have touched it had I been able to reach out the window
>(thankfully I didn't hit it with the car which would have been
>terrible!). Willy Wagtails come to the garden regularly and we have many
>other bird visitors at different times of the year - many of which are
>too small and fast for me to identify with their less colourful plumage.
>We have common house sparrows too I think so I need to figure out how
>best not to encourage them but keep all the others.
>
>We've been trying to make sure our garden has lots of foods for insects
>and different types of birds as well as fresh water - it's great seeing
>more life come into what was a bare block just over two years ago.
>
>I look forward to meeting you all at the next meetings and learning a lot
>about birds.
>
>Kind Regards
>Cassandra Walker
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