I love this time of year - the young birds are out and about and testing out their adult voices for the first time. I've just come in from outside where I was listening to a somewhat subdued and wobbly "Bok Book" - which I am guessing was a young Southern Boobook trying it's voice.
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Yesterday I was outdoors listening to an excessively screechy Rainbow Lorikeet, when I realised it was a youngun, and somewhat unsteady on it's wings. Clearly it could fly though, as I know they didn't nest in my tree.
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I also have seen over the last day or two a young butcherbird testing out it's voice and a young magpie wandering around my garden warbling quietly to itself.
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Life and nature is such fun to watch!
Hey Timmo, I love to hear the Butcher's popping out a few notes in trial too. The figbirds have been very noisy here and I think I have a young one in the back garden with its parents. By they way, I can now recognise that mating call of the PBB that you were talking about in an earlier thread... it is quite different from the normal song, and they even do it through the night. The other night the Koels started it and went all night long then the channel Bills joined in at about 3am which disturbed the kookaburras so they went for it as well !! LOL it was really quite funny as it was pitch black and they were all obviously awake :)
Sunshine Coast Queensland
Hi,timmo and birdie,some of the things happening at the moment in my garden are funny, not only are the chicks trying to fly,but the constant begging is not having the desired result anymore. I guess it's like kicking your teens out of the house. The Boobooks in the bush behind me had 3 little Boobooks.I heard them trilling, and begging for food many nights and early mornings. But for the last 2 days, they have been begging all day long,they have just given up asking: hey, where is dinner? (hope they haven't starved to death?)But, I think, the time has come to grow up!! Do you all remember, when the Wattle-Bird-Bullies moved in, and all the little birds disappeared, well, now the big ones left, lots and lots of tiny birds are back. How good is that?
M-L