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Pied Currawongs in Docklands (Melbourne)

To: 'James Mustafa' <>, Paul Dodd <>
Subject: Pied Currawongs in Docklands (Melbourne)
From: Peter Shute <>
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 12:50:26 +1000
Thanks everyone, it's sounds like it's surprising I haven't seen one here 
before. It just came back a second time, so it looks like it might be a regular 
now.

Peter Shute

> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Mustafa  
> Sent: Monday, 15 September 2014 11:54 AM
> To: Paul Dodd
> Cc: Janine Duffy; Peter Shute; 
> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Pied Currawongs in Docklands (Melbourne)
> 
> I know they're regularly seen in the botanical gardens. Very 
> common in there now.
> 
> On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 11:13 AM, Paul Dodd 
> <> wrote:
> 
> 
>       I see them reasonably frequently in South Melbourne 
> (Dorcas St, Moray St and
>       Bank St) too. I would be surprised if they weren't in 
> Docklands, Albert
>       Park, Middle Park, Albert Park Lake and even in the 
> Royal Botanical Gardens
>       also.
>       
>       Paul Dodd
>       Docklands, Victoria
>       
>       -----Original Message-----
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>  On Behalf Of
>       Janine Duffy
>       Sent: Monday, 15 September 2014 10:20 AM
>       To: Peter Shute; 
>       Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Pied Currawongs in Docklands 
> (Melbourne)
>       
>          Hi Peter
>          We've been seeing them on and off around Port 
> Melbourne for a few years
>          now.  So I wouldn't be surprised if they are coming 
> through Docklands
>          as well.
>          Janine
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>          [5]Peter Shute
>          Monday, 15 September 2014 9:58 AM
>       
>          Last week I heard a Pied Currawong calling near the casuarina
>          plantation in Navigation Drive in Docklands, and 
> just now one landed on
>          the roof of the builidng opposite where I work.
>          I submitted a Birdline for last week's bird, but it 
> was rejected on the
>          grounds that PC sightings around the CBD are common 
> now. Fair enough,
>          especially as they've been regularly seen around the 
> zoo for years now,
>          but it was my first sighting of them in Docklands 
> that I've had in the
>          6 years since we moved here.
>          I'm wondering if this is just part of a general 
> spreading of their
>          range, or a sign that the trees in Docklands, most 
> of which are less
>          than 10 years old, are maturing to the point that 
> they are now
>          attractive to them. Or possibly just that residents 
> are now feeding
>          them. Have others seen them in Docklands before?
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