Quite a weekend!
We were visited yesterday morning by four or five Yellow-tailed Black
Cockatoos. They spent some time in casuarinas on the creekbank, then moved up
into the garden where they gnawed away at old seedcases and galls and even
branches in a couple of Acacia maidenii, intermittently screeching out their
raptor-like contact calls.
When we moved onto Abberton, about 20 years ago, a few eucalypts along the old
fence-line by the road were the only mature trees we had here. Later, we bought
the old road reserve alongside that boundary and began to plant it up with
local endemics so as to join the vegetation further along the creek with what
we had here and what we were intending to plant here - the aim being to make a
contiguous wildlife corridor.
Well, it’s been working quite well. Our list of mammals has steadily grown over
the years, along with our bird list, and this-afternoon in a eucalyptus right
in the garden – our first Koala. We’ve seen them a few kilometres along the
creek in one direction, and along the road in another, but never before in our
garden.
In between these two events, much of the other usual excitement was going on, a
raucous Channel-billed Cuckoo fly-by, a gorgeous female Eastern Koel in a tree
by the gate as I went out to get the Sunday paper, a Wedge-tailed Eagle passing
low overhead carrying what looked very like a chook, Dollarbirds in pairs,
Rainbow Bee-eaters likewise, and at breakfast time this-morning two Plum-headed
Finches in an unkempt patch of garden just off the verandah.
I’ve just put photos of the some of these at http://www.abberton.org/holding.htm
Bill Jolly
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