Hi Kerry Firkin from Corlett Port Stephens NSW There are more rainbow Lorikeets up my way then there ever has been it must be because there a lot of trees that were damaged by the bad weather we just got over After the East Coast Low was here two week ago has left a lot of trees down or stripped of all it bark and leaves I felt sorry for all the birds and animals that called the trees that came down home Two Glossy Black Cocatoos this Morning and this afternoon one beautiful Ospreh flow over head Regards Kerry Firkin reff777@bigpond.com.au
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Hi Jason, I’ve just come back from a week at Holbrook, NSW where I have been surveying woodland bird populations along the Hume Highway. The weather there was very wintery – very dense cloud cover most days, only light rain showers, low to mild temperatures and gale force winds predominantly from the south-west. Thursday was the only day when there were no strong winds, but the birds were still very quiet and difficult to detect. In one travelling stock reserve where there are usually over 30 Noisy Miners, a casual observer would be forgiven for thinking that there were none there on that day. But they were all there, sheltering in tree canopies, silent (not even sounding the alarm call as I walked by), even though there was no wind and the survey was conducted at the time of the day (first half of the morning) when bird activity is usually high. I really had to work hard on that day to detect the Noisy Miners (and other bird species) in the reserve. So maybe your Noisy Miners on the Northern Beaches are still there, just harder to detect. Cheers, Stephen Stephen Ambrose Ryde, NSW —–Original Message—– Jason McHattan Sent: Sunday, 10 May 2015 7:41 PM Kerry, I suspect you have a lot of our birds up there! Since the storms a couple of weeks ago, bird numbers here on the Northern Beaches of Sydney seem to be way down. There appears to be only high numbers of Rainbow Lorikeets, opposed to the usual plague proportions we normally have.
Even the Noisy Miner’s are fewer, and in their place are Common Myna’s, which were almost unheard of around here before the storms. Cheers, Jason.
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Kerry, I suspect you have a lot of our birds up there! Since the storms a couple of weeks ago, bird numbers here on the Northern Beaches of Sydney seem to be way down. There appears to be only high numbers of Rainbow Lorikeets, opposed to the usual plague proportions we normally have.
Even the Noisy Miner’s are fewer, and in their place are Common Myna’s, which were almost unheard of around here before the storms. Cheers, Jason.
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