05 Jan Haig Park Stories
Trying not to trip over red-rumped parrots while walking is part of Canberra life...
Author: eggpicnic
05 Jan Haig Park Stories
I live on Ijong Street and there is a resident Fairy Wren family. Would love to see them depicted just down the road....
05 Jan Haig Park Stories
The sulphur-crested cockatoo is gregarious, playful, mischievous, and intelligent. When I feel overwhelmed and depressed, a visit from these birds never fails to lift my mood. They just have an infectious happiness about them!...
05 Jan Haig Park Stories
There's a lot of attention paid to the "big birds" but I love the tiny flocks that dart around when you are patient enough to wait and the insects and amphibians that sustain the whole ecosystem....
05 Jan Haig Park Stories
My Dad loves magpies. He lived for forty years in Holt and watched many generations of magpies grow up. He would feed them and also make sure they had calcium powder for their bones. They would come to his whistle and follow him around when...
05 Jan Haig Park Stories
I recently saved a baby magpie-lark. While working from home I saw it get knocked out of its nest during a crow attack. It was too small and not ready to leave its nest. After a few days with a carer from ACT Wildlife, we...
05 Jan Haig Park Stories
Living in Ainslie, the croaky squawk of gang gangs is a common sound. These cheeky birds love to hang out in gangs, working on hollows along the trails of Mount Ainslie. North Ainslie Primary School has the gang gang as it's emblem and our daughter,...
05 Jan Haig Park Stories
I love Australian birds. I rescued a cockatiel that I found abandoned on the street in 2017 and have since grown my home flock to four birds. I've just come to love the intricacies and intelligence of birds, and the companionship they bring. I especially...
05 Jan Haig Park Stories
My mum (Sue Salthouse - yes the community centre in Haig Park Salthouse) had a bird feeder and loved seeing the galahs, King parrots and rosellas. She love fairy wrens. And Bogong moths too. I chose this animals because they connect me with my mum....
05 Jan Haig Park Stories
Being able to see relatively rare and sensitive species like the Gang-gang Cockatoo within an urban area like Canberra makes me hopeful that we can learn to make space for wildlife in our increasingly human-dominated landscapes....
05 Jan Haig Park Stories
We always laugh about this magpie that was doing like a seductive/aggressive dance to my sister as she walked to the bus. As if it was trying to intimidate her but just ended up being super cute....
05 Jan Haig Park Stories
Canberra Magpies are some of the smartest, most personable birds I have ever met. When we moved to Canberra, the day we moved in, the local Magpie family flew down to our new front door and were clearly introducing themselves and checking us out. Welcome...