favourite garden birds

["Michael Todd" <>]

Hello Birding-ausers,

 

I'm living in Lakefield NP on Cape York Peninsula at the moment so I guess I can count birds that occur around the building I'm living in as being in my garden although I don't do any gardening.

 

Among my favourite garden birds at the moment would be:

Grey -crowned Babblers- which are very fond my Toyota Hilux as a good place for mating and various other activities including crapping on the car seats when I leave the windows open.

Great Bowerbirds- they've got a bower just outside that they adorn with various items from the QPWS workshed often including missing nuts and bolts.

Squatter Pigeons- which feed on fallen seed around the barracks.

Boobook Owl- which spends the day in the workshed.

Bush Stone-curlews- which fill the night air with wailing

Masked Owl- which adds to the night noises with screeches every now and again.

 

I've just got to work out how to get the Star Finches and the white-bellied Crimson Finches to come into my garden also so I don't have to go out to study them! They are a bit inconsiderate of me I'm afraid.

 

Mick Todd

 

 

Michael Todd
Finch Researcher
Tropical Savannas CRC
c/o Stephen Garnett,
EPA, PO Box 2066, Cairns, Qld, 4870