Your morse code bird is possibly the seasonally common Eastern Spinebill …
From: Anne Fulker [
Sent: Thursday, 5 May 2016 10:37 AM
To: COG Chat
Subject: [canberrabirds] Bird ID
Had a nice walk at Point Hut Crossing yesterday and managed to see the following:
2 Black swans, pacific black ducks, 2 flame robins, 1 white-faced heron, 1 pied cormorant, grey fantail, wrens (No blue plumage sighted only brown) and what I think was a black-faced cuckoo shrike (see photo below - couldn’t get a close
up photo). I heard only a black cockatoo.
I heard a bird from my back yard also and the call reminded me of morse code. Any suggestions? Thanks