urban wildlife

[peterescue]

Got a call yesterday about the gts that is living just up the road. Couple were worried that it might get some grief from the locals. My nephew and a couple of the local kids have toldme about it already. It sits in the sun on a colour bond fence when they all get out of school.
I trotted up and sure enough there it is. About 1.2m and not the least bit worried by my presence. Bit of a worry really. Still nice to see and nice to see my neighbours taking an interest. Couple of minutes later I hear yellowtailed black cockatoos over the back and sure enough there they are and they fly up the street an land in the backyard of the couple(theyre new) who rang about the gts. I had been telling them about the cockatoos and they said that they would love to see them.
Simsalabim
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What a great week. Whales, black cockatoos and green tree snakes.

[Magpie]

Nice one.
Hope the snake gets left alone, it'd be a shame to have to move it.

[hugsta]

What area is that in Peter. Great to see averything is starting to come out and warm up. Woo hoo, look out herping here I come. Time for some wild photography.

[Fuscus]

Yellow tail blacks occasionally wander over north Adeliade, a few kms north of the CBD. Also there were seals hanging around Port Nulunga(?) pier last week

[hugsta]

When we first bought or house in nrth west Syd, we would often see black cockatoos, not sure what type, sulphur cresteds, pink and grey galahs, lorikeets, rozellas etc etc. It was only 5 yrs ago and I already have seen the depletion of these birds around our area and the increase of massive proportions of indian miners. It's pretty sad to see great Aust. wildlife slowly disappear. It also doesn't help with all the mass of housing development out here either.

[Magpie]

would often see black cockatoos, not sure what type

Pretty sure Yellow tails are the common one around Sydeny.
Currawongs have been implicated strongly in the decline of other native brods, especially the smaller ones. Forget the exact details, but it takes something like 7 clutches of smaller birds nestlings to raise one clutch of currawongs, and they can breed all year.

[Fuscus]

Yellow tails are the most common on the east coast. They do well where there are pine plantations for food and old-growth for nests. Currawongs can suddenly turn up in a area in large numbers and will eat any nestlings they find but they also take non-native nestlings as well. My parents had a pair of turtle-doved that would nest in a Mango tree, about once a month currawongs or butcherbirds would raid the nest then the doves would immedently lay again. In the three years that the doves had that nest, I don't think one egg hatched.
Indian mynas (note the spelling) only do well in areas without flowering gums, the gums will attact noisy miners and rainbow lorikeets which keep the mynas away. Incedently, we don't have indian mynas in Adelaide

[Fuscus]

Yellow tails are the most common on the east coast. They do well where there are pine plantations for food and old-growth for nests. Currawongs can suddenly turn up in a area in large numbers and will eat any nestlings they find but they also take non-native nestlings as well. My parents had a pair of turtle-doved that would nest in a Mango tree, about once a month currawongs or butcherbirds would raid the nest then the doves would immedently lay again. In the three years that the doves had that nest, I don't think one egg hatched.
Indian mynas (note the spelling) only do well in areas without flowering gums, the gums will attact noisy miners and rainbow lorikeets which keep the mynas away. Incedently, we don't have indian mynas in Adelaide

[Bryony]

i have a huge amount of black cockatoos that fly over our house in the afternoon, its like a black blanket covering the valley. Its lovley to watch.

i can't wait for it warm up so i can go herping too!!!!!