Have a regular female or young male sharing our blueberries in Fraser
Ken Black
> On 2 Feb 2018, at 1:57 pm, Mark Clayton <> wrote:
>
> Following on from my message this morning, and in reply to Jack's message, I
> can now confirm that there are 2 SB in the yard. One is an obvious juvenile
> bird bred in the past breeding season, the other a probable adult female. My
> wife has managed a few photos of the female, which was the original bird
> reported this morning.
>
> Denise's reply to me and the chat line (it appears that she had a few goes at
> getting her message out) was that she was losing the green tomatoes from her
> bushes, similar to what happened last year when she saw the birds for the
> first time and assumed that her bowerbirds were back again this year. The
> record is now on my GBS chart.
>
> Mark
>
>
>> On 2/02/2018 12:55 PM, Jack & Andrea Holland wrote:
>> Mark and chat line subscribers,
>>
>> This is a species in which I have had an interest for many years and have
>> published a number of papers in CBN, including a joint paper with Philip
>> Veerman about the spread of this species through the Canberra suburbs (CBN,
>> 25, p49 (2000))
>>
>> I updated the further spread several times up to about 2003, and since then
>> had noted its apparent spread throughout Belconnen.
>>
>> However, I'm not clear about whether this includes Giralang and Kaleen and
>> would be interested if this could be clarified (unfortunately Denise Kay's
>> message in response does not seem to contain any text).
>>
>> I'd also be interested if the Satin Bowerbird has been recorded in Gungahlin.
>>
>> I'm happy to take responses directly to me only.
>>
>> Jack Holland
>>
>> -----Original Message----- From: Mark Clayton
>> Sent: Friday, February 2, 2018 10:12 AM
>> To:
>> Subject: [canberrabirds] New bird in garden
>>
>> Good morning all,
>>
>> I was rather surprised to see a "green" Satin Bowerbird in my Kaleen
>> garden this morning at about 10:00. It was feeding on the ground in an
>> area where I throw a few food scraps and a bit of seed to keep the local
>> Crested Pigeons interested. This is the first time in over 40 years
>> living here that I have recorded the species locally but I think that
>> Denise Kay has had them in her Giralang garden. I don't know if they
>> have been recorded in the Gungahlin area yet.
>>
>> Mark
>>
>>
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