The last few weeks have produced a few new birds for the block
including my street (plus a few metres over here and there as
required!). I moved into this street in Northcote in Melbourne's inner
north about Christmas 2002, and started a local list in January 2003.
The area contains no native vegetation, and a mish-mash of European
gardens with a few eucalypts and acacias sticking up in odd spots.
>From then to now I've recorded 45 species of birds (plus 3 mammals, 2
reptiles, 5 butterflies) - typical daily birds (from this morning's
dawn chorus for example) are Song Thrush, Blackbird, Common Myna,
Eurasian Tree Sparrow, Spotted Turtle-Dove, Red and Brush Wattlebirds,
White-plumed Honeyeater and Eastern Rosella. In the last fortnight the
additions have included Powerful Owl (October - and stretching the
boundary slightly!!), Red-whiskered Bulbul (October), Sacred Kingfisher
(this week), Olive-backed Oriole (yesterday) and Scarlet Honeyeater!!!!
(today). The Scarlet Honeyeater is definitely the least expected - as
I walked to work this morning I heard and then saw one male feeding in
a flowering Lemon-scented Gum (Corymbia citriodora) near the
bottom of my street. Obviously part of the small irruption west in
Victoria of this species in 2003.
L.
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Lawrie Conole
Senior Ecologist
Ornithology & Terrestrial Ecology
Ecology Australia Pty. Ltd.
Flora and Fauna Consultants
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