I have recently moved house, onto a well treed 6 acre block with a rainforest gully. The birds here are incredible. I have really enjoyed using this site to help me identify quite a few. I have started my own little bird list blog (http://birdlistblog.blogspot.com/ if anyone is interested). I'd like to try to take a few photos too. I had an adventure with some pardalotes this last week, which I posted about in the bird rescue section too. I got a good close up photo of one of the baby pardalotes. I will try to work out how to post that. Happy birding everyone! Denise :)
Hi Denise
Just read your 'Pardalote adventure' Well done.
Ed Townsville NQ
Thanks Ed,
I was so excited to see them fledge. I had to share :)
Hi Denise
I read you Pardalote blog with interest as we have just had something similar at the construction site where I work. the excavators dumped heaps of sandy soil in big mounds and created a bank which mixed with the clay in the rain and became a firm mud bank. One of the residents noticed the birds flying in and out of a little hole and watched the fledglings being fed. Unfortunately for me , by the time I heard about it and went for a look it seems that they had flown. I can't believe they managed to raise chicks in the middle of such a noisy place full of workmen and machinery!!
( It's a housing development site so more units are being built all the time. The birds cope incredibly well.
I see you are on the coast too, great to read your birdlists.
Cheers
Birdie
Sunshine Coast Queensland
Forgot to say what a great job you managed with your rescue effort!1 Well done
Cheers
Birdie
Sunshine Coast Queensland
Hi Birdie,
Thanks and the sunshine coast certainly is a great place to live :) The guy working the excavator here the other day, told me that on occasion he has had pardalotes trying to build their nests in banks that he is in the process of moving! Crazy, but beautiful little things aren't they?
I am seeing new birds here every day, having a great time building up my lists. In time I'll just make them monthly I guess, but it's so much fun at the moment :)
Cheers,
Denise
Welcome to the forum Denise.
Great read on the Pardalotes Denise.
I've heard with this species of bird that if they will abandon the nest if it's distrubed or watched too much by people. Good to see that your experience turned out very differently.