Of course, Philip. The company of knowledgable people on an excursion is
best of all but you can’t have that every day! Inbetween times you must
make use what you have, such as COG’s excellent photo gallery and a good
field guide. An ‘app’ is an ‘application’ which in this case is a field
guide you can download onto your mobile phone or iPad and carry with you.
I too wish I had had one when I was young but such did not exist. Now I
find them very valuable - and quick too in showing you possible IDs in the
field when you have insufficient info.
On 25/04/2015 2:08 pm, "Philip Veerman" <> wrote:
>Nice response. Probably a generational thing: "nothing beats studying the
>COG site and consulting a good field guide, paper or app". Maybe true but
>not my experience. Of course I grew up in this interest in the 1970s when
>websites were unknown and I am still not sure what an app is or how to get
>one, as I don't have any. I think nothing beats going out with others, who
>do know stuff and being shown a few things, combined with working it out
>for
>yourself. The books are much better now than in the 1970s. Become familiar
>with the local and national reference sources (i.e. books)
>
>Philip
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: John Harris
>Sent: Friday, 24 April 2015 4:57 PM
>To:
>Cc: chatline
>Subject: Re: [canberrabirds] New Member, Satin Bowerbirds, King Parrots,
>Flame or Scarlet Robin
>
>
>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, ""
><>
>wrote:
>
>>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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