Hello all,
Its been pretty cold in Tassie over the last couple of weeks and the birds have
been a bit quieter than usual. During the coldest week (week before this one)
we had a bit of snow which was exciting for a northerner like myself. I spent a
day wandering around the Hartz Mountains National park, mostly taking snowscape
photos.
Very few birds were present in the cold conditions. Whether they move downslope
or just become more quiet would be interesting to know. I did see a Striated
Fieldwren (Calamanthus) at mid-day which even did a bit of posing and singing
so it looks as though they may stay put in the snow. I had the wrong camera
lens fitted of course so no photos. I'd be interested to hear about any
observations people have of bird behaviour during snow conditions. In your
opinion do they move?
I saw a drongo on the Thomas Crawford Trail at the University of Tasmania on
Friday. You could say that this isn't surprising as there are plenty of drongos
in Hobart but this was a Spangled Drongo (no, not a drongo in drag). I gather
that they are a rare vagrant to Tasmania- they weren't recorded in the last
atlas.
Yesterday, I helped (well sort of) out with a winter wader count in the Sorell
area (Orielton Lagoon). Of the waders that have stayed behind over winter were
of the order of 150 Red-necked Stints and 29 Bar-tailed Godwits.
My desktop computer, and hence access to my website, has been down for about 3
weeks now hence the lack of updates to the website. Hopefully I'll be able to
get back to it before long.
Cheers
Mick
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Michael Todd
PhD Candidate- Tasmanian Masked Owl
School of Zoology,
University of Tasmania,
Private Bag 05, Hobart, Tasmania 7001
0410 123715, www.wildlifing.com
---- Bob Green <> wrote:
> Here's the scenario: You are setting up CCTV monitoring on nest sites in
> Arkansas and as you are testing the screens an Ivory-billed Woodpecker lands
> in front of one of the cameras looks straight at you in the screen and flies
> off, do you tick it??????????
> Come on you know you WANT TO.
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