Birdwatching
Created: 2020-11-29 (13:00:00) — Modified: 2025-06-13 (10:42:49)Status: in-progress
2020
2020-11-29: Canberra, National Botanic Gardens
Proeaceae-Hakea
- Miscellaneous, unidentifiable chirping.
- Light brown bird noiselessly lands on a branch, then ducks out of view.
- Another light brown birds lands on a branch. It looks as though it had a patch of creamy yellow under its wings.
- Silhouettes of tiny birds flitting through the canopy above.
- Currawong lands in the branch of a far off tree.
- Light brown birds re-appear. They seem to be squabbling. They have dark heads, cream-coloured bodies and fan-shaped tails with white tips: wattlebirds!
- Dark head, white breast, brown underbody, black tail. A tiny bird which creeps along the underside of the nearby eucalypt, then flies off to parts unknown.
- Crimson rosellas soar through now an then, but they don’t linger.
- Kookaburras laughing somewhere close by.
- Wattlebird’s staccato call.
- More tiny birds flitting about in the eucalypt.
2020-12-29: Canberra, National Botanic Gardens
Rainforest Gully
- A male king parrot landed on a high gum branch and quietly watched me.
Rutaceae
- A yellow-tailed black cockatoo flew through with a long call.
Myrtaceae
- A crimson rosella sat on a branch and called two notes.
- A family of white-winged choughs passed by, squabbling.
Cultivars
- Two crimson rosellas flew through calling two short notes.
- A crimson rosella appeared amongst the branches of a flowering eucalyptus, but flew off when it spotted me.
- Two crimson rosellas landed on a nearby branch, conversed briefly and flew off again.
- A duo (or trio) of superb fairy wrens hopping about on the path.
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