Highlights in New South Wales over the last couple of weeks are as follows:
GIANT PETREL 1 "white phase" Long Reef, Sydney 25/8
OSPREY 2 Narabeen Lake, Sydney 27/8
PACIFIC BAZA 2 Mitchell Park, Cattai 30/8
SPOTTED HARRIER up to 3 Cornwallis Road, Windsor regularly
KING QUAIL still 4 Cupitt's Lane, Windsor 2/9
STUBBLE QUAIL 10 Cupitt's Lane, Windsor 30/8
LITTLE BUTTON QUAIL 1 Cupitt's Lane, Windsor 31/8
LEWIN'S RAIL 1 Royal National Park 1/9 and 1 Taronga Zoo 28/8
next to the Giraffes!
BANDED LAPWING up to 15 currently at Cornwallis Road, Windsor
DOUBLE-BANDED PLOVER 1 McGrath's Hill, Windsor 22/8
JAPANESE SNIPE returned to Mill Ponds, Botany 23/8
SHARP-TAILED SANDPIPER 2 Cornwallis Road, Windsor 6/9 - first return
GREENSHANK 1 Bushell's Lagoon, Windsor 31/8
CASPIAN TERN 2 Narabeen lake, Sydney 28/8
GLOSSY BLACK COCKATOO 9 Lillypilly, Bega 14/8, 1 Mangrove Mountain
10/8, 2 Leura, Blue Mountains 23/8, 1 Mackerel
Beach, Sydney 29/8 and 1 (wild bird?) Taronga
Zoo, Sydney 7/9
BARN OWL 3 Cornwallis Road, Windsor 6/9 and 1 found dead there 31/8
POWERFUL OWL 2 Mitchell Park, Cattai 30/8 and 1 Dural 27/8
TOPKNOT PIGEON 50 Lady Carrington Drive, Royal Nat. Park 1/9
WHITE-HEADED PIGEON 2 Lane Cove, Sydney 1/9
SACRED KINGFISHER 1 Falconbridge, Blue Mountains 16/8
EASTERN BRISTLEBIRD "many" Cape St George, Jervis Bay 24/8
SINGING BUSHLARK "many" Cupitt's Lane, Windsor currently
WHITE-THROATED WARBLER 1 Dural 27/8 and 1 Stannix Park, Windsor 30/8
WHITE-BREASTED WOOD-SWALLOW returned to Shortlands, Newcastle 11/8
and to The Entrance, Central Coast 8/8
In addition there are still good numbers of raptors of several species in
the Windsor turf farm areas; apparently feeding on mice.
Chris Gladwin
Sydney, Australia
BIRDLINE NSW (02) 9290 1778 - sponsored by Birds Australia, NSW Field
Ornithologists Club and Cumberland Bird Observers Club
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