Northern subspp Shriketit ? Princess Parrot . Feeding tray

Hi All.

Any tips on best date, time and particularly places to see Northern Shrike-tit?

Also should be a good season or three for Princess Parrot, any recent sightings in the wild?

Here in Mulgoa Valley spring has sprung with a vengeance, very wet and soggy. A locally rare Brown Cuckoo-dove joined the otherwise dominant but much smaller Bar-shouldered doves with Peaceful and Spotted Turtle-Doves, at the seed tray, along with 50+ Red-browsed Finches and a dozen Doublebars.

Two brown Satin Bowerbirds, Currawongs, an Aus Raven, magpies and Red-whiskered Bulbuls are at the seed tray, and recycle our kitchen scraps from bread crusts to fatty off cuts.

Even Superb Fairy-wrens seem to be pecking up millet

Out in the paddocks, on scattered seeding thistles, are European Goldfinches, and some Nutmegs around the paddocks as well.

The Bar-shouldered and Peaceful Doves are recent (five year) climate change arrivals, now breeding.
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Crested Pigeons and Common Bronzewings are constant up Mayfair Rd, Brush Bronze wings occasional in wet weather, a White-headed Pigeon seen once feeding in a Camphor laurel down on the creek.

A Sparrow hawk shoots through like a bullet to pick up an odd finch, probably quite often, we see them every few days.

Otherwise the Valley list is well up over the fifty mark .

Cheers

Michael

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