Brush Cuckoo

Sightings anywhere within a 250 km radius of Toowoomba, but excluding the local survey area (see above), for the period 1 March 2011 - 31 May 2011.
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sburke
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Location: Townsville Region

Brush Cuckoo

Post by sburke »

My first lifer at Russell-Ridge, Stoneleigh this morning. I had been hearing an unfamiliar call for a few days now and finally this morning, while showing some friends around the camping area below the house I spotted my first Brush Cuckoo. It was a great feeling although my friends, not birders, could not understand why I would want to run through the bush, jumping logs and rocks, to get more views of my new bird.

Cheers :)
sburke
Posts: 158
Joined: Wed Mar 11, 2009 10:30 am
Location: Townsville Region

Post by sburke »

I can hear the Brush Cuckoo near the chook pen again this morning. tee-ooo, tee-ooo. Jeff and I are considering extending the garden to include this particular piece of pine, currajong, ironbark and vine scrub as a wild section with a bit of a walking track through it. The area is very popular with all the local birds and the Cuckoo-shrikes are nesting there at the moment.
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