This
Australia Day weekend Laura and I were able to-do our bit for the native hollow
dwelling birds and mammals.
There
were a few Indian Mynas about the property last week but we had been unable to lure
them to our trap near the house even with our caller. So Friday night we set
another trap (without a caller) in the area where we had seen some of them on
the ground.
Saturday
morning a flock of Mynas descended on the trap and soon we had several in the
trap. By nightfall after the remaining un-trapped Mynas had left the area, we
went to check the results, 16 birds trapped! We had seen more, using binoculars, around the
trap earlier, so we set a second trap.
This
time we put two callers in each trap and on Sunday another 14 ventured in making
a total of 30 birds in 2 days. One trap is still out but either we got them all
or they have moved on for now.
There
have never been this many birds here before. These two days tally is more than
our previous three years.
