[ozbirdpix] Barbary Doves Adelaide – message from Steve Mannix

I was in the area on Monday and also saw a large number of Barbaries in the Elizabeth Dove Tree at the back of the house. I reckon they are breeding up nicely in the absence of anyone doing anything about them.

I didn’t linger long as the tenant of the rental house looked a bit fierce, probably well fed up with crazy birders gazing at his house and garden.

Tony

From: ozbirdpix@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ozbirdpix@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Alistair McKeough Sent: Thursday, 22 July 2010 9:56 AM To: ozbirdpix@yahoogroups.com; smannix@mmm.com Subject: [ozbirdpix] Barbary Doves Adelaide – message from Steve Mannix

Steve asked me to post the following for him:

I was in Adelaide for work on Wednesday 21st July, and with a little forward planning and an early start I managed to get up to Sampson Road, Elizabeth Grove to see the Barbary Doves. Normally I wouldn’t trumpet such an “ignoble tick”, but for the fact that at one point, I counted 21 individual Barbary Doves in the bare branches of the dead tree behind house number 30, and there may have been several more. My search of the archives puts the highest number to date at this location as 12 by Mike Carter in April 2009, with just 6 recorded by Dion Hobcroft earlier this month. Observations were made at 8:15 in the morning, with 15 Crested Pigeons, 6 Spotted Doves and up to 10 Rock Doves also present in the same tree, which at one stage was almost covered with pigeons and doves. I agree with Mike Carter’s observations from 2009 that all these birds appeared to be assembling as if about to be fed.

Cheers,

Steve Mannix

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