Take part in the National back yard bird count, From Aus. Geo.

[bob10]

The Aussie Backyard Bird Count is almost underway (https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/news/2018/10/the-aussie-backyard-bird-count-is-almost-underway/)

[Homestar]

Wish I had more than bloody Indian miners in my back yard to count.

[loanrangie]

Wish I had more than bloody Indian miners in my back yard to count.As you pick them off with a slug gun.

[discorevy]

Wish I had more than bloody Indian miners in my back yard to count.


As you pick them off with a slug gun.


geez... bit rascist , surely they can work, even if they are on a 457 visa, without being shot at.......oh birds.......carry on[bigwhistle]

[ramblingboy42]

20 mins....this will be very interesting.

I have a very healthy population of Australian Miners , which totally control Indian miners , very healthy movement of Cockatoos, Corellas , Galahs , Lorikeets, Rosellas, Magpies, Crested Pigeons and Ravens and the Kookaburras have just appeared again.

[DAMINK]

Every time i bird watch from the back yard the neighbors complain.
PUT YOUR CLOTHES ON! STOP LOOKING AT ME and so on.

[Homestar]

20 mins....this will be very interesting.

I have a very healthy population of Australian Miners , which totally control Indian miners , very healthy movement of Cockatoos, Corellas , Galahs , Lorikeets, Rosellas, Magpies, Crested Pigeons and Ravens and the Kookaburras have just appeared again.

How do I get Australian Miners into the Neighborhood? Would love to have some more diversity here. The estate I live in is around 15 years old now so growing up well and heaps of great gardens and large parks in the area, but there is bugger all in birds apart from the Indian Minors, Ravens, the odd Magpie, a few sparrows, etc. Other parts of town have much more bird life - maybe 15 years isn't enough to establish an area properly for the wildlife?

[donh54]

How do I get Australian Miners into the Neighborhood? Would love to have some more diversity here. The estate I live in is around 15 years old now so growing up well and heaps of great gardens and large parks in the area, but there is bugger all in birds apart from the Indian Minors, Ravens, the odd Magpie, a few sparrows, etc. Other parts of town have much more bird life - maybe 15 years isn't enough to establish an area properly for the wildlife?

Lots of native trees and shrubs for a start. No, or at least minimal use of chemicals. Plenty of ground cover for things other than birds. If you can see lizards while you sit on your verandah, and have a couple of resident blue-tongues in the yard, you're well on the way to a healthy ecosystem.

We have a couple of grevillea trees on the north side of the house, and every morning is like a concert! Noisy miners, blue-faced honeyeaters, rainbow and scaly-breasted lorikeets, little friarbirds to name a few.

Then the other trees around have a good mix of birds, too. Magpies, currawongs, ravens and crows, butcher birds, a few different wrens, kookaburras and the odd black kite that pays a visit. Even (very rarely, unfortunately) a wedge-tailed eagle will grace us with their presence. At least until the other birds gang up on them! And if we go for a walk down by the river there's various ducks and shags, darters, pelicans and bin chickens as well.

Even as I'm writing this, I can hear probably 8 or 10 different birds, and it's the middle of the day.