How many birds?

[artme]

One of the pleasures of living here, where there is some bushland less than 100 metres away, and where so many houses have trees and mature shrubs and bushes as part of there gardens, is to listen to the world waking up.

Every morning the butcherbirds, magpies and Currawongs set to work. Later the Ravens join in and the the Rainbow lowries. Pee wees and wrens get going too. This time of the year the storm bird makes its presence known on some mornings also.

How many birds do the rest of you hear in the morning?

[wheelinround]

Currawongs, Galah's, Cockatoo's, Roselas, Lorrakeets. Ruddy Minor rats.

Many feed off the natives shrubs in the back yard

Then frogs of a night near the pond, skinks, blue tonges during the day

A good thread Arthur

[Scribbly Gum]

Mornings are beautiful at this time of the year aren't they.
I'm not a morning person so I am only now at this time of the morning, just getting my full faculties together. However I am like you in as much as I love the bird life in our little part of paradise.
Telegraph Point is well treed, and our place more than most.
I had the butcher birds and kookas following me as I mowed the front yesterday. They were after the crickets and hoppers in the grass. Later in the afternoon the wonga pigeons came down for the easy pickings of the mowed seed heads.
During the day we often see satin bowerbirds, white headed pigeons, yellow breasted robins, numerous honeyeaters and lots of others depending on the season.
We had king parrots mid summer, but they are gone now. I did hear some yellow tailed black cockatoos this morning but didn't spot them, and while I'm typing, a wattle bird oo-oo-ar-ar-oo-ee'd.
Bottom line is that habitat brings the birds and birds bring joy.
Ain't life grand.
SG

[Woodwould]

One of the pleasures of living here, where there is some bushland less than 100 metres away, and where so many houses have trees and mature shrubs and bushes as part of there gardens, is to listen to the world waking up.

Every morning the butcherbirds, magpies and Currawongs set to work. Later the Ravens join in and the the Rainbow lowries. Pee wees and wrens get going too. This time of the year the storm bird makes its presence known on some mornings also.

How many birds do the rest of you hear in the morning?

I wasn't aware of the varied birdlife in my area until you mentioned it. So far this morning I've shot and identified 28 different species!

I've always enjoyed waking up to the sound of the Shortwave Radio Birds (Magpies - according to the bird spotter's handbook) but the screeching Yellow-handled Parrots (Sulpher Crested Cockatoos apparently) get on my nerves a bit.

This ornithology lark is quite fun!

[artme]

I only listed a few of those around here, as I guess the rest of you did.

I see and here all the other birds mentioned also. At times I have a flock of up to a dozen blue headed hoiney eaters flitting around, as well as leatherheads. There are a few black faced cuckoo shrikes in the area and some little twitters that I haven't identified as yet. They are too quick for me.

At night the birdlife is replaced by the flying foxes, and possums that have adopted us.

Flying fox sh#t is not pleasant but so what. We don't get that much.

[mic-d]

We're lucky to be in a leafy suburb and just down the road at our pony club we have noisy minahs, black and grey butcherbirds, magpies, kookaburras, crested pigeons, turtle doves, rainbow lorikeets, scaly breasted lorikeets, eastern rosellas, plovers, tawny frogmouths, crows, currawong, pheasant coucals, few variety of ducks, ibis, cattle egrets, whip birds. Blue heron, woompoo pigeon and a crested hawk do the round occasionally too. It's a real managery. Even a couple of dumped rooster took up residence near our shed for a day, but the foxes saw to one of them, the other went to a rooster rescue service. I don't know what they do with them, but they do eat a lot of chicken. I forgot the fig birds and common kholes too and the cuckoos

cheers
Michael

[AlexS]

Rainbow lorikeets, crimson rosellas, eastern rosellas, sulphur crested cockatoos, galahs, corellas, yellow tailed black cockatoos (rarely), king parrots, crested pigeons, noisy miners, peewees, magpies, butcher birds, currawongs, koels, tawny frogmouths and a raptor of some kind (only seen twice) who took out an indian dove.

And those bloody indian mynahs!

[Keith_W]

Living in Oatley NSW its a very leafy suburb and there is a Park nearby so of a morning there is a rich sound of the bird life as we awake, Kookaburra's, Cockatoo's,Magpie's, Miner Birds, Lorikeet's etc.
ItIn the mornings I am greated by several Lorikeets who call me for there grapes or honey on bread who have no fear of me as they jump on my hands to get the food and the Magpies who take bread from me. The Magpies will follow me arround the yard as I do gardening looking for the insects that I desturb for a quick treat, they too have no fear of me.
I could never keep a bird in a cage as it is great to see the wildlife free as they are and when they want they visit for there hand-outs.

Regards,
Keith.

[rsser]

I lived in Oatley for a few years as a kid Keith; not far from the bush reserve on the river. Great place to grow up.

Now 12 km as the crow flies from the Melb CBD. Been here for 20 years and we've noticed a steady increase in bird species and numbers, partic parrots. There's a creek reserve not far away and the speculation is that the dought has brought them down that corridor; also that the wattles that were planted years ago are now over-mature and grub ridden and so a food source for birds.

We have an old apple tree in the back yard and with good spring rains and a bit of help afterwards it will bear quite well. The applies were ripening nicely last month and then the parrots descended. We ended up with one apple but the visual feast was worth the loss.

[rotten_66]

The only two that I get to hear are the Zebra Bird and the Rainbow Bird.

What the heck are those you may ask??

Zebra is my Plymouth rock cross rooster, and Rainbow is my Australorp cross rooster.

[tea lady]

Out at the foot of the Dandenongs, Here is my list.

Magpies, butcher birds, wattle birds, Cockies, galahs, rosellas, yellow tailed black cockatoos, blue fairy wrens, fan tails. whip birds, blackbirds, turtle doves. bush pigeons, noisy mynahs, thornbills, firetail finches, and many others in the background that I haven't identified. Some sort of owl at night, and sugar gliders as they come out of their nest in the evening. They are very weird. They sound like an unrolling coil of wire to me. I didn't know what it was until a fellow member of our bush weeding group was talking of them.

[springwater]

Meant to reply to this on Sunday morning when I first read it but had to scoot off and then forgot, sorry about that , thoughtful thread Artme There's a menagerie of birds around here and they create a lot of chitta chatta, especially in the morning and especially Sunday morning because they must have known the rain was coming. The conversations subsided as the day went on but before nightfall they all seemed to have lots to say to each other about what had happened during the day and who was going to sleep where.

There is a bird that makes a call which is exactly like the tune of something I can't remember the words of, but it's English, I think war time, about Hitler maybe If you you can imagine a whistling sound with this rhythm da dada da da...da da, except the bird leaves the last two da da's to who ever knows the tune anyone know what the hell I'm talking about

[Woodwould]

We've had Doves and Blackbirds nesting in our Jasmine for the past seven years. The Blackbirds are my all-time favourite birds. Their morning song will brighten any day and after a summer evening shower, they sing like it's their last evening on Earth.

[tea lady]

If you you can imagine a whistling sound with this rhythm da dada da da...da da, except the bird leaves the last two da da's to who ever knows the tune anyone know what the hell I'm talking about

I think we had the same bird up here. But now I can't remember the song.

[weisyboy]

to many

if they get to close tehy get a nasty injection.

we had 54 butcherbirds, magpies, crows and corowongs coming in to eat the dog and cat food last year. was costing a fortune.