There really is a lot going on.
A Collared Sparrowhawk came down to a birdbath on Saturday, then just sat
there for some time - as they do. She (it was a BIG sparrowhawk) then
shifted into an adjacent tree, allowing me to take some photos from the
fringes of the house.
Friends nearby had a Southern Boobook in their garden for a day - I'll put
some photos on the website.
An influx of Red-tailed Black Cockatoos yesterday afternoon - 30 or so.
They've just about cleaned out the fruit from the White Cedars, but they're
happy to get stuck into the bigger eucalypts.
This-morning we had five Speckled Warblers rummaging around the litter that
is our presently dry garden. Yellow-faced Honeyeaters have turned up, as
they do every autumn, along with southern Silvereyes. There are Rose Robins
around in the valley, but none in our garden yet this season.
I spent a few days with a visitor from the US last week and between us we
turned up more than 160 spp, but that did include a couple of days outside
the valley. A very nice little group of waders at Thornside included
Bar-tailed Godwits, Great Knot, Grey-tailed Tattler, Terek Sandpiper and
Curlew Sandpiper - all neatly juxtaposed for ease of identification, with
Black-winged Stilts and Silver Gulls nearby to give some size perspective,
and Collared Kingfishers dotted along the shore, plus the most brilliantly
coloured Sacred Kingfisher I have ever seen - also sitting on the shoreline!
Once again, Mt Glorious yielded the birds for which it is dependable
including Logrunner, Crested Shrike-tit, Noisy Pitta, Paradise Riflebird,
Pale Yellow Robin and a range of fruit doves and rainforest pigeons.
Bill Jolly
"Abberton",
Lockyer Valley, Queensland.
Visit our website at www.abberton.org
email:
ph: (+61) 7 4697 6111
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