hatwise's Identifications

I once used to see brown honeyeaters, grey fantails, double-barred finches and willywagtails in this location near the top of the path from the creek up to Kittyhawk Drive; now all I ever see and hear, here, is crows and noisy miners...

In a mass of assorted weeds and scrubby stuff on creek banks. I have observed that fairywrens prefer this sort of dense cover - even when composed entirely of weeds - to sparser cover even if the latter consists entirely of native plants. I have also observed over time that the 'tidier' the landscape the less likely it is to contain fairywrens, scrub-wrens, or any other of the smaller bush birds. I am seeing a LOT fewer of these sorts of birds in 7th Brigade park now - after five years of ever-more-intensive 'tidying up', 'restoration', etc - than I used to see 2015-2020; and in a lot fewer places covering a much smaller percentage of the park; I am very much afraid that if the present trend continues, after another ten years there won't be any present at all.... just nicely-spaced nicely-pruned nicely-weeded parkscape swarming with noisy miners.