The changing of the guard ( Bird Edition )
Over the decade or so that we have lived here the range of bird life has greatly changed. From the smaller rose robins , silver eyes, black birds and eastern Spine-bills that were frequent in our earlier years. We have had a fairly constant presence of Magpies , Currawongs , Pigeons, Rosellas , Noisy Miners cockatoos etc This year however the the rise of the predatory birds has been noted. This is the first year we didn't see a single silver eye or spotted Pardalote, there are no red wattle birds either. Last year I actually saw the Currawongs snatching the pardalotes in mid air, as they flew to their nesting site. Last week a juvenile crested pigeon was on the ground against our glass door. In fact, almost between the screen and glass with feathers around it, we were alerted to it's presence by a tapping sound, we went to its aid confused by its positioning but assuming it had crashed into the glass. It was clearly in shock but scooted up the sloping trunk of the maple int