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Birdwatching at Fairhill
| Posted on June 8, 2013 at 11:56 PM |
On the last Wednesday day of every month at 8.00am during
winter (7.00am starting August) the Wednesday Day Club spend and hour wondering
through Fairhill Botanic Gardens enjoying the huge diversity of bird life that
the gardens have attracted before retiring to have a cuppa, talk about their
sightings and a chat. On most
outings they identify over 60 different types of birds with the highest number
being 85 seen and three heard, that’s a huge diversity in a 10 acre
garden. They have listed over 150
species of birds over the past years. There is a consensus among the Wednesday Day club members
that the best bird watching any where is in the Fairhill Botanic Gardens which
is pleasing in many ways but in a lot of ways it is very concerning as is
indicates a lack of bird habitat else ware. In 1974 Fairhill Botanic Gardens was a dairy farm, not one
tree or shrub on the place. It has
been interesting to watch the changes in the bird population as the gardens
evolved. Before any of the trees
and shrubs the bird life consisted of open field bird, the Butcherbirds,
Magpies, Peewees and the odd Kookaburra.
As the quicker flowering garden beds started to provide
shelter the Honeyeaters started to arrive followed by finches and wrens as more
seed producing plants started to produce. Evolving further, the rainforest gardens started to close in
and rainforest birds such as Emerald Doves, Catbirds and Whipbirds took up
residency. During this stage the open field birds declined and the
gardens went through a period when they disappeared altogether. But recently they have started to come
back as the trees started to provide a habitat for them. There are Noisy Miners on the list of sighted birds; they
are occasionally seen in the open paddocks on either side but never in the
gardens. This is because the Noisy
Miner is an attack bird. It needs
open lines of sight so that it can dominate all other birds. And because the gardens don’t provide
that, the Noisy Miners don’t feel comfortable and stay away. At the last gathering of the Wednesday Clubbers there was a
discussion about the decline of bird life. The consensus is that there is a lack of corridors (one
comment was “that a bird can no longer travel from Brisbane to the Sunshine
Coast any more”) but also the lack of habitat in private gardens. Fairhill Botanic Gardens is a great
example of how a bird friendly garden can be created. And it does not need to be 10 acres, there a some fantastic
examples of small backyards providing great support for the bird population, we
just need more of them. The morning of the last Wednesday of the month is a really
enjoyable time in the gardens and the members of the Wednesday Day Club invite
all who has the time to join in.
There are no membership fees, just role up to Fairhill Botanic Gardens
and join in. The next gathering is on Wednesday the 26 of
June; look forward to seeing you then. |
Categories: Around the Garden
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