Aussie Finch Forum

for once I'm glad to be wrong

Watch those sulphur cresteds, they love the rubber on your windscreen wipers, lol.

now theres a few mysteries solved ...thanks Ive also seen Galahs snap of car aerials ...

Dan ive seen beautifuls south of sussex inlet on the south coast. Also down near wattamolla and garie beach in the national park south of sydney. Also for anyone in the know theres a colony of double bars and zebra finches in rookwood cemetery rite here in good ol sydney!
And plum heads and diamond firetails out near emu plains and st marys near the nepean in sydney. But only a shadow of there former selves.
Still small pockets of redbrows around also but there at least still common if you go behind beaches a such on the coast thank god.

Ben

Plumheads and suppose to be diamonds here along the river bank , have seen the pumheads but not the diamonds yet.

We have redbrows, diamonds, double bars and the occasional zeb here plus of course escapees

I can confirm seeing red brows in the field opposite Penrith station a few months back.

Living outside of perth years ago redbrows were quite common near Areluin (spelling? I was 3 last time we went )

Looking back at my childhood growing up in Tasmania it would seem I used to see Beautiful Firetails quite regularly but these days, despite keeping a keen eye out, it seems I don't come across them as often when I go back for a visit. So perhaps they are not as common as they once were, or more likely, the frequency with which I sighted them as a child has become distorted in my memory.
I did come across one in Bunyip State Forest recently, which was a very pleasant surprise...