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I guess you call March in the Northern Territory
Autumn (we call it Knock em down ). Though we haven't had much rain lately, I
think our Wet season has fizzled out already and don't the birds know it. The
Rainbow Beeeaters have started to reappear in increased numbers probably
directly proportional to the number of dragon flies around. The Red tailed Black
Cockatoos are also back after an absence of several months. Once the Paperbarks
started flowering the Varied Lorikeets appeared out of nowhere and are racing
around all over the place. The Torres Strait pigeons have started to quietly
slip out of town one day their here the next day you realised you haven't seen
any lately.
It's hot and in response to Bob Forsyths email our
Grey crowned babblers were drinking from the sprinklers today which I haven't
seen them do before either. The Bush Stone Curlews are in overdrive at the
moment and are holding corroborees down the back of the block everynight, I wish
I knew where they slept so I could pay them a noisy visit in the middle of the
day. I saw a Lathams Snipe at an old borrow pit the other day though I didn't
get to count its tail feathers. The poor owl population seems to be suffering on
the local roads at the moment with several Tawny Frogmouths and Barn Owls
vicitims to passing cars. I wish we got Gang Gang Cockatoos I do miss their
wheezing in the cotoneasters full of berries.
Steve Popple.
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