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Sounds of South Canberra

To: Geoffrey Dabb <>
Subject: Sounds of South Canberra
From: Martin Butterfield <>
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2020 14:53:53 +1000
From my 8 years of Daily Froggie recording calling from the nest during the daytime usually meant that the female was not where she was expected to be and the male (always the nest occupant during the day) was seeking information or reassurance wrt her whereabouts.  I hope there isn't too much anthropomorphism in that sentence.



On Tue, 25 Aug 2020 at 13:20, Geoffrey Dabb <m("iinet.net.au","gdabb");">> wrote:

With ‘morning ball’ it is important not to pelt the ball into a tree containing a nesting magpie or butcherbird.  However, the game late this morning (Rocky Knob Park, Narrabundah) was interrupted by a sound first taken to come from a heavy vehicle reversing at one of the nearby housing redevelopment projects in Inner South Canberra.  Then it sounded more like the territorial humm, humm, humm of one of the local frogmouths, usually heard at night.  This took my eyes to the old magpie nest, used by frogmouths for the last 2 years. Sure enough, there was the retenanted nest, missing much of the wire of previous seasons. The daytime calling from the nest (a warning call?) is what makes this incident mildly reportable.  So yet another yellowbox Mr Ball must keep clear of.  The art of frogmouth photography requires, of course, that the subject is captured with eyes closed. An open-eyed frogmouth in daylight proclaims to all that the photographer has disturbed the bird.  GD

 

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