birding-aus

Feral news - Song Thrushes have started singing

To: Lawrie Conole <>
Subject: Feral news - Song Thrushes have started singing
From: Brian Fleming <>
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 20:13:46 +1000
I have been listening for Song Thrush but have heard none so far this
year. In most years I expect to hear them start before the winter
solstice, from about 4.00 or 4.30 in the afternoon, if the day isn't too
bright.
I have to be up early tomorrow so will check then..
Anthea Fleming

Lawrie Conole wrote:
> 
> Hi birders
> 
> Some feral news from one of the (so far) least offensive Melbourne
> feral
> birds.
> 
> Yesterday as I walked to work I heard the first few snatches of song
> from one of my neighbourhood Song Thrushes.  This morning the same
> bird
> (I presume - singing from the same vantage point high up in a plane
> tree) was in more-or-less full voice.  I can't recall noting the first
> Song Thrush singing in previous years, but it strikes me as a typical
> mid-late winter sound in many parts of Melbourne.
> 
> I did say above that it was at the moment apparently a fairly
> contained
> population of this feral bird in urban greater Melbourne - Geelong.  I
> think they are spreading into rural and forested landscapes to the
> east
> (South Gippsland) and west (Otway Ranges) though - a bird to watch
> ....
> 
> L.
> 
> --
> =================================
> Lawrie Conole
> Senior Ecologist
> Ornithology & Terrestrial Ecology
> 
> Ecology Australia Pty. Ltd.
> Flora and Fauna Consultants
> 88B Station Street
> FAIRFIELD VIC 3078 Australia
> E-mail: 
> Internet: http://www.ecologyaustralia.com.au/
> Ph: (03) 9489 4191; Mob: (0419) 588 993
> Fax: (03) 9481 7679
> ABN 83 006 757 142
--------------------------------------------
Birding-Aus is now on the Web at
www.birding-aus.org
--------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message 'unsubscribe
birding-aus' (no quotes, no Subject line)
to 


<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>
Admin

The University of NSW School of Computer and Engineering takes no responsibility for the contents of this archive. It is purely a compilation of material sent by many people to the birding-aus mailing list. It has not been checked for accuracy nor its content verified in any way. If you wish to get material removed from the archive or have other queries about the archive e-mail Andrew Taylor at this address: andrewt@cse.unsw.EDU.AU