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Hi Birders,
Nowdays Crested Piogeons are
very much part of the urban environment and while they did not appear on the NSW
Central Coast until 1970s, they are now common throughout, generally occuring
side by side with Spotted Doves, but maybe as others have suggested, they do
like areas of extensive lawns, golfcourses, playing fields etc. Be that as it
may, at my two previous houses in Chittaway and Berkeley Vale, Spotted Doves and
Crested Pigeons were both regular visitors to my garden. However at both sites,
Red Wattlebirds and Little Wattlebirds were the more common large honeyeaters.
But here in Murray St Bateau Bay, where the houses are set amongst large
mature Blackbutts and Red Bloodwoods, and Noisy Miners are the dominant
honeyeaters, we have plenty of Crested Pigeons but no Spotted Doves (or Common
Mynas)..
Down the street, 400m away is Sutton
Reserve and a number of picnic areas associated with Bateau Bay beach and
Wyrrabalong NP and these local reserves have a bushland understorey. There are
Spotted Doves & Common Mynas there but Wattlebirds seem to be as common if
not more common than Noisy Miners. I wondered whether just as Noisy Miners are
tolerant of Eastern Rosellas but keep Common Mynas away, so they are tolerant of
Crested Pigeons and keep Spotted Doves away. This means ofcourse that if I want
to see Brown Thornbills, Spinebills, Spotted Pardalotes and other bushbirds, I
have to go down the street where the wattlebirds, Mynas and Spotted Doves are
more tolerant as to who they live with!
Does anyone esle have this
expeience?
Alan
Morris
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