A spot of work reorganisation led to a strategic meeting in the
conference room at Brisbane Forest Park HQ / Walk About Creek. WAC has
a ~ 500 - 1,000 m3 walk through "rainforest" avairy adjacent to our
elevated conference room. From that room and adjacent veranda, it was
possible to watch a full suite of east coast pigeons [crested, top
knot, wonga, wompoo, brown, white headed, emerald, rose-crowned and
superb] as well as whip birds, king parrots, buff-banded rails,
chestnut teals, bush thickknees and the odd tawny frogmouth and channel
bill etc.
The highlight for me involved close views of a male macleay's
fig-parrot. While it was preening a little over a metre from me, I had
nice views of its blue primaries and patch of red on the secondaries.
I don't think he had a mate there, because he was buddied up with a
dusky woodswallow - they perched side by side and occasionally preened
each other. It was interesting listening to his call - it reminded me
a bit of a lovebird call. It was a call I could imitate to the point
that he flew over to check me out.
Watching the fig-parrot and superb fruit doves during the breaks
certainly helped me to make it through a day-long meeting.
Regards, Laurie.
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