I have seen flocks of 20 in the last week on Mt Majura.
Geoff McVeigh
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In mid 2003 when I worked on Tennant street Fyshwick, there were often many.
Some may recall following the bushfire, we had lots of them in Canberra. I
had them flying over my house on that night on 18 January. The biggest count
I got was from that Fyshwick site I think about 500 within probably 3 to 5
hectares. That was based on seeing multiple flocks of 50 to 100 YTBC flying
into the trees and having about that small proportion of change on those
already there. As big flocks comprising part of this mass passed more or
less over the office and paddocks between tennant st and the airport I think
I recorded 350 as the number for the GBS that I was doing for the site that
year.
Philip
I observe small flocks from time to time over the inner south: on Wednesday
for example, 5 flying over Woden northwards around 4.45pm.
Often also down nr Scrivener Dam.
A few weeks ago in the early morning I saw a single YTBC flying over Curtin
shops to the south east quite fast and calling querulously. I guess it got
left behind.
John Leonard
On 21 May 2016 at 09:06, John Harris <>
wrote:
> Judy raises an interesting point. How many large flocks of YTBC are
> there in Canberra? Indeed one could ask how many individual YTBCs.
> It occurs to me that here is an interesting research project. I would
> be fairly certain that the observation that started this chain, a
> flock of
> 40+ YTBCs flying from Percival Hill towards Giralang, is the same
> 40+ flock
> that I see on or near PH nearly every day at the moment. But I would
> be very unsure indeed about the flock that roosts at Uriarra. IF they
> are the same flock then they are probably over-reported and there are
> fewer in Canberra than seem to be observed.
> It is a very neat little research project for someone and then worth a
> piece in CBN. They don¹t fly very fast and it should not be TOO
> difficult to follow a flock, even by car - let alone catching a bird
> and using a GPS device of some kind. But even without a device it
> should not be too hard. They don¹t seem to me to fly far without
> coming down to roost.
> Not
> around here anyway. The fly regularly from PH to the pines on the
> Barton Highway and back. Cheers John
>
>
>
>
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>
>
> On 15/05/2016, 9:33 AM, "Judy" <> wrote:
>
> >At 5.20 pm yesterday a large flock of 40+ YTBCs flew into the
> >woodland bordering the horse paddock on the western side of Uriarra
Village.
> They
> >often roost there overnight. Could this be the same flock?
> >Judy
> >
> >Sent from my iPad
> >
> >> On 14 May 2016, at 4:52 PM, Fleur r Leary <>
> >>wrote:
> >>
> >> At about 4.25pm today counted 43 YTBC flying from Percival Hill
> towards
> >>Giralang. Also 1 spotless crake at Crace wetland.
> >>
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