Oh that is OK. Tiny correction. I wasn’t confirming your identification. I don’t know what you saw. I can only suggest if you have a basis to have that identification,
there is every possibility that you are right. About felt sure that I had an adult and a juvenile,
as I wrote, that would be likely. Young are more reddish coloured, especially on upperparts, and behaviour will often suggest it. Like with a lot of young birds.........
Philip
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To: David McDonald (personal)
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Subject: [canberrabirds] Re: Hobbies in Giralang
Wow! You guys really are organised!
Thank you for confirming my hunch that they were hobbies. I did get a good look at their underparts and felt sure that I had an adult and a juvenile flying over. Your feesback has backed this up.
A new one for the backyard list.
On Saturday, 18 February 2017, David McDonald (personal) <> wrote:
The Annual Bird Report cannot present all the available data.
For the monthly data, and lots more, please visit
http://canberrabirds.org.au/birds/, find the species of interest, click on the graph icon in the right hand column ('PDF data sheet'), then click on 'More detail' in blue at the top.
Page 2 of the PDF shows 'Reporting Rate by year (ending 30 June) , month and season', including this:
These data will be updated after the 2015-16 ABR is completed and published in a couple of months time. Many thanks to Steve Wallace and Jaron Bailey for their great work in making the data available to us in this form.
Yup, Feb is the stand-out month for the Canberra region hobbies.
David
On 18/02/2017 12:16 PM, Philip Veerman wrote:
This is expected. This is the time that young have left the nest and they tend to be noisy. As I have
written many times, the Australian Hobby features as a sort of highlight (if you are interested) in Canberra in February. That is the main reason why I chose them as the front cover bird for The GBS Report (also because I just happened to have a painting I
did of one, some years earlier, that would make a nice bit of artwork of mine to put on the cover). Indeed this was first described by me in 1991:
(1991) ‘The monthly pattern of records of the Australian Hobby
Falco longipennis in Canberra, A.C.T.’, Australian Bird Watcher 14: 70–72. (Analysis of a species whose annual routine is very consistent.)
It appears though that the consistency of the pattern has reduced a bit. But hard to know as the COG ABR no longer contain the monthly abundance
graphs that were so useful in the early years. Once again highlights the need to redo and update The GBS Report.
Philip
I'm pretty sure I had two Australian Hobbies fly over my place at Giralang this afternoon. Gliding low. I seem to recall Duncan spotting them at Giralang Pond some time back?
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