Channel-billed Cuckoo

["Bill Jolly" <>]

An early Channel-billed Cuckoo for us too yesterday (9^th September) on Saturday afternoon, near Grandchester in the Lockyer Valley, southern Queensland.

 

We look forward to our unsuspecting human Summer Visitors being woken by the raucous sounds of courting Channel-bills flying over and around the house for the next several months!

 

Bill Jolly

 

“Abberton”,

Lockyer Valley, Queensland.

 

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-----Original Message-----
From: [On Behalf Of Jill Dark
Sent: Sunday, 10 September 2000 5:21 PM
To:
Subject: [BIRDING-AUS] Channel-billed Cuckoo

 

Hi All,

 

Spring has arrived at Hazelbrook in the Blue Mountains. This morning (Sunday) I heard the first channel-billed cuckoo of the season. This is a little earlier than usual - last year it arrived on the 19th Sept.

This afternoon while gardening, I watched a group of small birds, mostly brown & striated thornbills mobbing a shining bronze-cuckoo.

 

Jill