Dear all
Heard the first Channel-billed Cuckoos in Gloucester at dawn Friday 16th
Sept - but of course they may have been around longer as this was the
first time someone had been listening at 6am - I've been getting up much
later since it is still too chilly on the deck for breakfast.
We've also had two recent reports of Grey-crowned Babblers nesting - one
group of 4 or 5 fledged young week of 12 September when I was in
hospital have my first total knee replacement operation, and the other a
pair nesting in a small gum on the edge of the 8th fareway of Gloucester
golf club - nestlings have been heard and I saw only 2 adults in
attendance. This is not a very good site - surrounded by endless close
mown grass with somewhat isolated clumps of exotic and native trees and
shrubs. The first group's nest is 2.5m up a 3m high gum on the side of
an unsealed road about 4km from the town, with reasonable GCB foraging
territory all around.
Otherwise, the days are hotting up fast and bird life is extremely busy
- Yellow-faced Honeyeaters have been passing in small groups for the
past 3 weeks and Noisy Friarbirds getting noisier as the town
bottlebrushes start to come into flower. Let's hope the Scarlet
Honeyeaters will return soon - miss their beautiful silvery calls but
the very noisy White-throated Gerygones make up for that - they sing all
day, and I've even had a Tawny Frogmouth humphing outside my window at
night.
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