At our place (rural residential, near to Canberra) the birds are regularly
seen in our garden. They seem quite happy flying 4-5m between shrubs and
under our deck. The loss of a lot of shrubs in a bush fire doesn't seem to
have affected them much.
Martin Butterfield
http://franmart.blogspot.com.au/
On 6 September 2017 at 19:33, Chris King <> wrote:
> That's very interesting, that they successfully ran the gauntlet of bully
> birds like noisy miners in between.
>
> I have noticed that the scrubwrens dont seem to venture out of their scrub
> much. We do a monthly bird survey in the streets near me and we never pick
> them up, unlike fairywrens and pardalotes. We see them in another garden
> across the Greenway / rail corridor to me, and adjacent to a scrubby
> section, so they probably fly across the rail line - about 8-10 metres.
>
> On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 4:56 AM, Peter Shute <> wrote:
>
> > Scrubwrens seem to be capable of recolonising. I've seen them in a small
> > park in Docklands in Melbourne, which would previously have been
> > unsuitable, and at least a couple of kilometres from suitable habitat.
> >
> > Peter Shute
> >
> > Sent from my iPad
> >
> > > On 6 Sep 2017, at 12:46 am, casliber0134 <>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi Chris I am very jealous of having scrubwrens! I did see spotted
> > > pardalotes entering and exiting in a small drain tunnel in the kerb in
> > > Kintore St Dulwich Hill about ten years ago.
> > > Cas
> > >
> > >> On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 5:11 PM, Chris King <>
> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Hi everyone
> > >>
> > >> I live in Dulwich Hill along the light rail / Greenway corridor. There
> > are
> > >> a resident pair of White-browed scrubwren living in the adjacent
> > bushcare
> > >> site and nearby weedy thickets. The pair frequently visit my small
> > garden
> > >> to use the birdbath and to feed amongst my thick plantings. I know
> there
> > >> are probably scrubwrens surviving on a section of the Greenway in
> > >> Leichhardt but I wondered if anyone knows of others in the inner
> > west?(ie
> > >> not Wolli Creek). We also have resident Superb fairywrens and Spotted
> > >> pardalotes.
> > >>
> > >> Thanks,
> > >>
> > >> Chris
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