Heard some scratching around in front of our house and on investigation
it proved to be a female Southern Logrunner. It was scratching around
in dense leaf litter. After initally flushing it sat on a rock and
allowed a good look at it. I remember seeing a report of sightings in
Royal NP a while back and also seeing it listed as extinct in the Royal
NP birdlist. We are about 500m - 1 km from the Garrawarra Recreation
area and the Royal. It's quite Rainforesty down by Helensburgh station
and Lyrebirds are common there, we are up on a ridge where it is typical
dry Sydney sandstone woodland, though many of the surrounding blocks are
normal cleared suburban blocks. Our block and surrounding blocks still
have quite a bit of natural cover so seem to bring in birds from the
park, including a Green catbird at our bird bath and a lyrebird who took
residence for a few months last autumn.
Am I correct in assuming a southern logrunner is quite a rare sighting
for this area?
regards,
Chris Ross
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