From Gladstone’s Notebook Image: Wikimedia Commons Why did Grey Butcherbirds like the pair above shun Lyndfield Park for over 30 years? Are these birds like Puccini’s Baron Scarpia and Mozart’s Queen of the Night – entrancing and exhilarating singers but inherently evil? Is there an inverse relationship between population densities of Methodists and Grey Butcherbirds? We explore these questions below. July Bird of the Month Image courtesy Wayne Weatherstone This is number 7 in a twelve part series inspired by Gladstone Weatherstone, a dedicated and knowledgeable amateur naturalist who lived on Lyndfield Park near Gunning from 1941 until his death in 1996. Each month we look at one of the birds Gladstone recorded in his notebook between 1962 and 1981 to see if it tells us anything about the recent history of our district. On 4 July 1972 Gladstone wrote “First Grey Butcherbird since coming here in 1941 was ...
Upper Lachlan Shire, Southern Tablelands, New South Wales