I was there today to check out Nankeen Night Herons at about 11:00.
Spotted and photographed one hiding in the tree on the right from the island.
Then it took off and flew in the direction of the island followed by three
more. The 3rd and 4th looked a bit smaller.
Victor
> On 17 Sep 2024, at 4:19 PM, Denise Kay via Canberrabirds
> <> wrote:
>
> I’m pretty sure a pair of NKH’s are nesting on Giralang Pond. They may have
> been doing this for years and I have missed it but this year I noticed they
> had stayed on the pond when they usually depart the first week of spring .
>
> I also had a pair of White Browed Scrub wrens nesting in the large ( 40 year
> old) maiden hair fern on my deck. They raised one batch of two and proceeded
> to lay again a couple of weeks ago . Yesterday our resident Currawong found
> the nest took both chicks then proceeded to demolish the nests ( I think
> there may have been 2 ) .
>
> Behaviour of the wrens was amusing I am raising an orphan Red wattle bird
> and one of the adults was annoyed enough by the constant chirping it came
> into the house to complain. Then spent a minute or so in the lounge , I
> thought it was going to clean up the spiderwebs sadly not. Flew back out and
> continued to complain outside .
>
> On another note a pair of pelicans have visited the pond twice in the last
> week.
>
> Denise
> --
> This is the email announcement and discussion list of the Canberra
> Ornithologists Group.
> Emails posted to the list that exceed 2 MB (2,000 kB) in size, including
> attachments, will be rejected.
> All emails distributed via the list are archived at
> http://bioacoustics.cse.unsw.edu.au/archives/html/canberrabirds. It is a
> condition of list membership that you agree to your contributions being
> archived.
>
> Canberrabirds mailing list
>
> https://lists.canberrabirds.org.au/mailman/listinfo/canberrabirds
--
This is the email announcement and discussion list of the Canberra
Ornithologists Group.
Emails posted to the list that exceed 2 MB (2,000 kB) in size, including
attachments, will be rejected.
All emails distributed via the list are archived at
http://bioacoustics.cse.unsw.edu.au/archives/html/canberrabirds. It is a
condition of list membership that you agree to your contributions being
archived.
Canberrabirds mailing list
https://lists.canberrabirds.org.au/mailman/listinfo/canberrabirds
|
