Dear Birders
The FOC has just completed the 10th of the proposed 12 Birds of Bathurst
Surveys in the area between Portland and Bathurst, comprising 77 four km
sq grids. A male Blue-billed Duck was seen on a dam at Meadowflat Saturday
15 July - sadly for me when I went to find it Sunday at 4.30 pm, it was no
longer in sight. This is a first for the survey.
Otherwise birds were quiet except for a flock of approx. 150 Yellow-tailed
Black Cockatoos preparing to communally roost in the pine forest just south
of Sunny Corner. The noise was incredible!
Scarlet Robins and Spotted Quail-thrush were around in reasonable numbers
but up in the forests and pine plantations, birds were very few and far
between - perhaps because of the very cold weather that preceded our
survey.
I have yet to hear from the rest of the team what they saw/found Sunday so
there may be a few more surprises I haven't heard about.
But despite the cold, an Australian Raven was seen carrying nesting
material on Wattle Mount Road, north of Portland, and a fledgling Superb
Blue Wren in a family group at a remote creek site in south Winburndale -
a very early start or else a very late breeding record.
Penny Drake-Brockman
Hon. Secretary, NSW Field Ornithologists Club
Penny Drake-Brockman, Examination Recitals Co-ordinator, Sydney
Conservatorium of Music.
Tel: 02 9351 1254.
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