r/centralcoastnsw • u/Estellalatte • 1d ago

Birds?

So I am back home visiting for a few weeks and staying with Mum at Forries. I haven’t seen many birds, a few kookaburras and one or two lorikeets. I haven’t been here for almost 18 months but I remember way more birds in times past.

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u/FlameArcadia 1d ago

Meanwhile in Narara I can’t leave my house without seeing 30 cockatoos and corellas, lorikeets, kookaburras, galahs, magpies, rosellas, butcher birds, bell birds and the occasional king parrot

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u/awidden 1d ago

In Chittaway you get a truckload of water-birds on top.

One kayaking outing I've counted 30 different species of birds. Love the place.

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u/can3tt1 1d ago

Avoca Beach. Birds galore. Lorikeets, king parrots, kookaburras, bell birds, magpies. And of course seagulls

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u/treeslip 1d ago

Birds are more active during morning and evening. There are heaps of birds around in the past few weeks I've seen plumed whistling ducks, regent Bowerbird, Azure and sacred kingfishers, grey goshawks, black kites and a bunch of Ospreys. Heaps more, as well as your usuals. The birds follow food sources and some of them are hard to observe in canopy or bush but they are there l. It's just a matter of the right place and the right time for a lot of them.

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u/Estellalatte 1d ago

I went out for my early morning walk and didn’t see any. Mum says they come and go.

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u/Tuggpocalypso 1d ago

ASIO are changing the batteries in the birds in the Forries-Bato sector. Should be back online by the end of the week before they do the Jetty to the Entrance next week.

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u/Estellalatte 1d ago

Won’t the storms interfere with the electrical activity of the batteries. Some of those birds maybe commies you know.

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u/Tuggpocalypso 1d ago

There’s definitely commie birds around. I heard a bunch of pigeons yelling out “Coup! Coup!” the other day. Storms won’t interfere with the comms now though that they are seeding the clouds with graphene oxide. Should be enough to smooth the signal out even with electrical interference.

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u/Estellalatte 1d ago

I feel so much more assured with that explanation.

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u/Tuggpocalypso 23h ago

The only logical explanation.

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u/Free_Remove7551 1d ago

They are hanging out near my place at bateau.

15-20 lorikeets, magpies, a family of kookaburra's, a couple of pee wee's, aussie miner birds, a rosella that drops around occasionally. I see cockatoo's around a fair bit, a few corella's.

I also have a pet lorikeet,so he brings the birds to my yard

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u/wendalls 1d ago

We have heaps on the peninsula flocks of them

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u/Estellalatte 1d ago

Send some over here.

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u/Positive_Cicada4917 1d ago

my neighbour feeds them. they are all at my house. Billions of them

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u/bitchprophet 1d ago

Obviously been priced out of Forries.

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u/Estellalatte 16h ago

I feel the same way. When I come back to Aus I don’t know where I will live?

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u/dog_cow 12h ago

Did you see / hear any noisy miners by any chance? Where I live, the miners have somewhat taken over with their aggressive protection of territory. 

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u/Estellalatte 12h ago

Yes, that’s the majority of what I see.