The other day, as a precursor to a bird survey I want to do for a uni subject, I was looking at birds in the local bushland compared to those around my place (< 1km away) and was quite excited to see a whole range of birds I've not seen in this area before including:
- Grey fantail
- Grey shrike-thrush
- Silvereye
- Golden Whistler
- Fantailed cuckoo
- Brown honeyeater
- Black-chinned honeyeater
as well as the more common local birds:
- Pale headed rosella
- rainbow lorikeet
- Scaly-breasted lorikeet
- Pied currawong
- Pied butcherbird
- Australian Magpie
- Noisy miner
I had thought this was a fairly lifeless/boring patch of bush, but it's amazing what you find when you start to really look.
Then this morning, for the first time ever, I saw a bird of prey over my place. Not sure exactly what it was because it was too far away by the time I got the binos out. Something pale from underneath and about the size of the magpie that was harassing it.
that bird variety will make your subject report look better
what city/state are you in?
Peter
Hi Peter,
I'm in Brissy, near Toohey forest
Cheers
Tim
Brisbane
Hi Tim, nice to hear from you again. Good work. You will see even more, if you go back to the same spot a few times,and at different times of the day. Sit somewhere quiet for some time and just listen and look. You will have a picture of what is there in front of you, and after a while you will see every tiny movement in this picture. My aboriginal friend tought me how to do this, you will be amazed how much life is in one tree. More and more details will emerge. Good luck.
M-L
With luck the phantom tree & shrub planter will plant a corridor from the local bushland to your backyard, timmo!
Yeah, with luck they might. I've certainly been doing my bit to help Mr/Mrs Phantom by joining with the local greening group, planting natives in the local park along the creek zone.
I could probably do a bit more and encourage neighbours to grow more natives, even give them away, as I have maybe 1000 seedlings growing in my "nursery" areas.
I have been known to do some phantom tree planting, but mostly in the more sparse, degraded local parkland - with local natives of course
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Cheers
Tim
Brisbane
Way to go, timmo!
Good stuff timmo plant away! Don't for get to throw in a couple of ficus here and there.
See it! Hear it!
Mid-North Coast NSW