Birds: Various and many!
I don't generally publish lists of birds since it is both boring to readers and, in itself, not helpful to anything! However I hope that by categorising the following couple of observations I may tweak a bit of interest and add a bit of value!
My GBS site has just (on 13 June 2010) hosted a large number of birds of reasonable diversity. As they were not travelling around together, but in single species groups in various bits of the garden I am not claiming a mixed flock but between 13:45 and 14:15 I recorded:
On 14 June 2010 I went for a bike ride around the core of the Hoskinstown Plain to see what was around on a brilliantly sunny but quite cool day.
The diversity was quite reasonable with 30 species recorded on a loop of Briars-Sharrow Rd, Plains Rd, Hoskinstown Rd and the rest of Briars Sharrow. However, to me, the more impressive thing was the biomass:
My GBS site has just (on 13 June 2010) hosted a large number of birds of reasonable diversity. As they were not travelling around together, but in single species groups in various bits of the garden I am not claiming a mixed flock but between 13:45 and 14:15 I recorded:
| 25 Red-browed Finch; | 2 Striated pardalotes |
| 12 Silvereye; | 1 Speckled Warbler |
| 10 Yellow-rumped thornbill | 1 Scarlet Robin |
| 6 Superb Fairy-wren | 1 White-eared Honeyeater |
| 3 Magpies | 1Grey Shrike-thrush |
| 2 Buff-rumped thornbill; | 1 Golden Whistler |
| 2 White-browed Scrubwren | 1 White-throated treecreeper |
On 14 June 2010 I went for a bike ride around the core of the Hoskinstown Plain to see what was around on a brilliantly sunny but quite cool day.
The diversity was quite reasonable with 30 species recorded on a loop of Briars-Sharrow Rd, Plains Rd, Hoskinstown Rd and the rest of Briars Sharrow. However, to me, the more impressive thing was the biomass:
- 166 Australian Magpie in one paddock (they must like what thoroughbreds leave behind!) plus 30 elsewhere;
- a minimum of 250 Galahs (counted in 10s, about 400m off the road)
- 42 Little Ravens in a single flock (plus 44 elsewhere in smaller groups)
- 15 Red-rumped parrots (this species is surprisingly infrequently recorded for such a grass-ridden area);
- 25 Crested pigeons
- 50 Sulphur-crested cockatoos
- 89 Australian Wood Ducks in one flock (plus 42 elsewhere);
- 300 (a guess - they in a number of flocklets and were very mobile) Common Starlings feeding amongst grazing cattle.
- 2 Wedge-tailed eagles
- 2 Skylark
- 3 Australian Pipits
- 15 Double-barred Finches (in a mixed flock with 4 Red-browed finches and approximately 12 Yellow-rumped Thornbills)
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