We have found a pair of pied butcher birds, with one sitting on a nest, in
Deakin, on the side of Red Hill.
Belinda
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> 1. Superb Parrots appear in Holt (John Layton)
> 2. NE Woodlands (Rosemary Blemings)
> 3. Sacred Kingfisher in Holt garden (John Layton)
> 4. Re: Sacred Kingfisher in Holt garden (Philip Veerman)
> 5. Re: Why no rabbit predators? (Terry Munro)
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> Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2021 10:33:00 +1100
> From: "John Layton" <>
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> Subject: [Canberrabirds] Superb Parrots appear in Holt
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> Five males flying into elms at Holt Oval 09:30 today. Probably the first
> I've seen in our immediate area since early last summer. Elms appear to be
> an attractive food source for them.
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> John Layton
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> Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2021 10:43:28 +1100
> From: Rosemary Blemings <>
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> Subject: [Canberrabirds] NE Woodlands
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> On Monday 11th October much diversity in a Mixed Feeding Flock and associates
> around 11.30hrs.
> The North East corner of the 'nature reserve? fence where it mets the
> equestrian ex-cross country course woodland.
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> At least 5 Varied Sittellas
> Both Whistler species? calls
> Pair of Leaden Flycatchers
> White-Throated Treecreeper calls
> Grey Shrike Thrush foraging
> Western Gerygone calls
> Several Thornbill species
> Striated Pardalotes
> ?Honeyeaters? too high in canopy to i.d.
> Grey Fantails
> Choughs preening in Monterey Pine trees further west and seen later
> Noisy Friar Birds very vocal the previous day (10th)
> Olive-Backed Orioles heard and one seen foraging, also on 10th October.
> Sacred Kingfisher flew SE to NW across the showground as I returned to the
> car.
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> Plus other predictable regulars.
> Hall Showground?s woodland areas are an Eastern Rosella Haven.
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> Healthy, hydrated habitats are the key to species richness. Need more more
> micro bats as the mosquitoes wait for those who stand still or take
> photographs.
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> Rosemary
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> Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2021 12:43:01 +1100
> From: "John Layton" <>
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> Subject: [Canberrabirds] Sacred Kingfisher in Holt garden
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> Watched one perching and pouncing in our yard for five minutes before it
> moved on at noon today. Rather unusual to see them here in spring, usually
> see a couple moving through during latter half of summer.
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> John Layton
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> Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2021 13:10:53 +1100
> From: "Philip Veerman" <>
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> Actually presence of the species in Canberra gardens at this time of year is
> typical. Although John confined the context to "here". Extract from page 64
> of The GBS Report as below: Note that abundance peaks in October.
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> Philip
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> Sacred Kingfisher Todiramphus sanctus
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> This species shows the typical pattern of the breeding summer migrant with a
> warmer month peak but with a trough in the middle. Arrival of first birds in
> September and numbers peaking rapidly in October as birds move through the
> urban areas before mostly settling in woodland or continuing on their
> migration south. Followed by a slight decline to December and January, then
> an increase in February as birds start moving north again or independent
> young start dispersing. The birds are noisy when they arrive and even more
> so when breeding. However when the young have become independent and they
> move through the suburbs they are generally silent. Numbers have declined,
> being twice as high for the first year as for any subsequent years. Other
> than that they had a dramatic decline from Year 8 steadily down to less than
> one tenth that number in Year 13 and staying low. Breeding records are
> inspecting hollow in early December and dependent young in late January in
> Years 1 & 5 at Sites 14 & 22 only.
> Graphs on page: 96, Rank: 61, Breeding Rank: 63, A = 0.01117, F = 19.51%, W
> = 15.5, R = 1.046%, G = 1.07.
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> Subject: [Canberrabirds] Sacred Kingfisher in Holt garden
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> Watched one perching and pouncing in our yard for five minutes before it
> moved on at noon today. Rather unusual to see them here in spring, usually
> see a couple moving through during latter half of summer.
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> John Layton
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> Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2021 13:46:17 +1100
> From: Terry Munro <>
> To: Alberta Hayes <>
> Cc: David Rees <>,
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> Subject: Re: [Canberrabirds] Why no rabbit predators?
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> Rabbits - have you seen City Hill in Civic in recent times, particularly
> around sunset. They could easily change the name to?Rabbit Hill?. Those
> tussocks along the tramline must look inviting
> Terry Munro
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> On Mon, 11 Oct 2021 at 6:51 pm, Alberta Hayes via Canberrabirds <
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>> I live near the ANU and go walking there every day. Last night I was there
>> at about 10pm after I finished work and saw 4 kits (baby foxes) playing
>> around in the ANU near Old Canberra House. They did not seem interested (or
>> perhaps didn't see) the large rat that was eating the photinia, but were
>> very interested in a large thistle nearby. They were rolling near it and
>> sniffing it while jumping around one another. I suspect they will soon be
>> too fat to jump around quite so much.
>>
>> I didn't see any owls or frogmouths, but there were a few sugar gliders
>> and of course many brushtail possums about.
>>
>> Alberta.
>>
>> On Sat, 9 Oct 2021 at 17:48, David Rees via Canberrabirds <
>> > wrote:
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>>> The 'classic' predator of the Rabbit is of course the Fox. The bunnies
>>> are working overtime ATM. Campbell Park has many young ones right now for
>>> example. Eagles would find it hard to hunt in such wooded areas, relative
>>> to an open environment. In Europe for example the Common Buzzard is
>>> probably the main raptor bunny killer, and are generally fairly common
>>> birds in southern and western Europe where rabbits are common. Little
>>> eagles here would be a bit bigger and could do the job, but are rather
>>> uncommon these days. Guess its warren fumigation, doctored carrots etc.
>>> Given the conditions, I suspect the bunnies will outrun any local predators.
>>>
>>> David
>>> On 9/10/2021 12:17 pm, Fleur Leary via Canberrabirds wrote:
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>>> Question for the chatline: there is a proliferation of rabbits living
>>> beside Lake Burley Griffin from Molonglo Reach through to the ANU but they
>>> don't appear to be preyed upon by Wedge Tailed Eagles. Is this because this
>>> area is too built up? Do other birds of prey take rabbits (owls?) ? Or is
>>> it just that the rabbits breed too fast for predation to make an impact on
>>> their numbers?
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