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| Little Raven being dive-bombed by a gang of Noisy Miners | ©Christine Linton |
Showing posts with label Noisy Miner.. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Noisy Miner.. Show all posts
Monday, July 29, 2013
Ravens nesting
It's still mid-winter in Adelaide but I have seen nesting behaviour - gathering sticks, courting displays and so on lately. Yesterday on my walk home, I notice two Little Ravens on top of a Stobie (telephone) pole, one of them with a large multi-branched twig in it's beak. They were being dive-bombed by a gang of Noisy Miners. Noisy Miners do seem to pick on certain birds and gang up on them; they maybe have their reasons, but it's commonly seen around Adelaide. Anyway, the Raven with the twig eventually flew away, and it's mate stayed to take the flak from the Miners. There were about 6 or 8 of the Miners. I've also watched them dive-bomb my cat as soon as it walked out the door into the garden, and often seen them pick on Australian Magpies and other birds - size is no object, a Raven for example is twice the Miner size. They will also appear to deliberately annoy a single Magpie or pigeon, whether on their own or in a gang. Entertaining for me but not for their victim, I'm sure. Here is my sketch. The Raven's body is a bit short, but you get the idea.
Sunday, June 9, 2013
Still loving birds
I have come back to this blog after a long gap, because I often want to share my bird sightings from my walks. I've changed the template and will make other changes no doubt - I'm a more experienced blogger nowadays. My other blog is at http://craftconversations.blogspot.com/ where you can find my experimental art and craft.
One of the places I love best to walk along is by the Torrens River. Margins, edges of habitat - here, edge of suburbia next to a river - hold lots of wildlife. Today a solitary female Australian Magpie was not bothered by a gang of Noisy Miners who kept crowding her, following her stately walk in their excitable manner. They are both native Aussies, but we have lots of introduced species; the plain old pigeon, known here as Feral Pigeon, has beautiful iridescent neck feathers as gorgeous as any bird.
One of the places I love best to walk along is by the Torrens River. Margins, edges of habitat - here, edge of suburbia next to a river - hold lots of wildlife. Today a solitary female Australian Magpie was not bothered by a gang of Noisy Miners who kept crowding her, following her stately walk in their excitable manner. They are both native Aussies, but we have lots of introduced species; the plain old pigeon, known here as Feral Pigeon, has beautiful iridescent neck feathers as gorgeous as any bird.
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| ©Christine Linton |
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