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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Azzy" data-source="post: 1744432" data-attributes="member: 83206">It's amazing the thrill seeing a few new birds can give, very exciting <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /> I can imagine youre confusion about the ww and the hooded robin <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" /> It makes me think of when you see a bird and also hear calling from the same area, so you naturally associate that bird and the call, only to later find out after the bird flies to a different spot, and the call still sounds from the same spot, that it's a different species calling, haha!I've actually only been to anstey's hill once, a few years back with my sister <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" /> For some reason I didn't feel like it was a place that I would have felt safe walking alone, though I was a bit younger, but who knows <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" /> I don't remember paying attention to birds at the time, but we saw an echidna! I've only seen golden whistlers twice (possibly some females on other occasions, but those lbb's are so hard to determine!), once at cleland conservation park (3 years ago), and the second just last year at Innes national park, didn't know they were so common close to the suburbs.Actually, it's very exciting that you mention the long-billed corella. Back in 2007-8-ish... don't remember, would have to look up the photos, I was at watching a flock of 30+ sulphur crested cockatoos feeding on the ground along the parkland on golden grove road, where the creek runs. I noticed that a couple of the birds were actually corellas. Naturally, I assumed that they were short-bills, but looking closely at the photos, they're actually a pair of long-billed corellas, in the middle of the suburbs! I guess it really all depends what's available out there for them. At first I couldn't tell what they were, but they had the stronger pink markings of the long-billed and it took a while before I could see the longer bill because the facial feathers cover it up pretty good. So it doesn't surprise me that they're listed for altona. I wouldn't think they were that common, although at the same time, it would be hard to tell. They may be around fairly frequently among the big flocks of short-bills, but unless you sat and looked at them all, it would be very hard to notice. I wouldn't think they'd be a regular sighting anyway, more of a nomadic thing I think.</blockquote>

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