Black-tailed native hens

["Telstra" <>]

Black-tailed native hens everywhere!

For the first time ever I saw a single black-tailed native hen yesterday on
the grassy verge near the road behind the La Trobe University Wildlife
reserve.

In the reserve itself there are gang-gang cockatoos apparently nesting there
for the first time in yonks. Also reports -- although I did not see it -- of
a barking owl both in the reserve and in the housing estate behind it.
Numerous sightings and heard calling.

Also crested pigeons in the area around the reserve -- a new bird here.


Cheers


Harry Clarke.

Birding-Aus is on the Web at
www.shc.melb.catholic.edu.au/home/birding/index.html
To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message
"unsubscribe birding-aus" (no quotes, no Subject line)
to