Fwd: Is 11 gang-gangs suddenly arriving for a back-deck feed unusual?

[Robin Hide via Canberrabirds <>]

Further down in Ainslie (nr Corroboree Park) we v. occasionally get groups of up to 19 or so, often mainly yng males.

Usual visitors are pairs, sometimes with or two juveniles.

 

Robin

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From: Jack Pezzey <>
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2025 at 17:35
Subject: Is 11 gang-gangs suddenly arriving for a back-deck feed unusual?
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Dear Zac Flegg and Gail Neumann,

 

Over the past year or so we have been visited more and more often by local gang-gangs, and we have occasionally fed them a few sunflower seeds on our back deck.   (We often let them just take a drink, get bored waiting, and fly away.)  For many months it seemed to be just two mates (male plus female) coming, but last December there seemed to be a family of five or six in our nearby tree, recently we've had two or three arriving about twice a week, and yesterday we were suddenly visited by 11 gang-gangs, mostly young males we think.  (I could send photos and videos.)  Is this unusual, and should we discourage such mass visitation by not feeding any of them for some time?

 

Many thanks,

Jack Pezzey

Winnecke St, Ainslie (v. close to Mt Ainslie)

 

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