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Hello All,
Having recently sold my home of about 50 years and
having moved into a retirement village I had resigned myself to a future of
vastly reduced opportunities for engaging with birds. Now I am not so sure. The
new dawn chorus has established itself as Eastern Yellow Robin , Little
Wattlebird , Grey Butcherbird Pied Currawong , Aust. Magpie , Koel Cuckoo ,
Eastern Whipbird and Kookaburras. Last week whilst lying in bed
, contemplating the attractive outlook to the NE across Garigal NP I became
conscious of an anomaly in the Lillipilli tree about 10 feet from the large
bedroom window. This object resolved itself into an immature male Superb
Lyrebird perched about 3m up in the tree and not at all concerned with my
proximity. Apart from one sally into a nearby Eucalypt , he remained in the
Lillipilli all day but was gone the following morning . I have since noticed a
new bird call which sounds just like a not- very- polished E. Whipbird call , so
I might be lucky .
Reg
Belrose.
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