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Dear Ricki
When I was doing the CSU course in 1998, Eve St
wetland was one of my study sites. Saw most of the species you have on your list
there and also in the adjoining Riverina Wetland which has a Chinese vegie
garden one side and football oval the other. A rarety was Double-barred Finches
but I never saw Nutmegs. Also used to get Mangrove (Striated) Heron on the
shores of the very degraded Cooks River, Fantail Cuckoos, Brown
Goshawks, Grey and Chestnut Teals, Rufous Whistler, Grey Fantail, Richards
Pipit, Golden-headed Cisticola, Little Grassbirds, Tree
Martins and Blackbird, and on the muddy shores of the Riverina
section, Buff-banded Rail, Curlew and Sharp-tailed Sandpipers and
Red-necked Stints in summer, and Black-winged Stilts breed
there.
Check the Oriole is an Oriole and not a Figbird -
there used to be lots of Figbirds because of all the fig trees. However, Eve St
has deteriorated since and has since had little mud so the migratory birds have
ceased to use it, keeping to Riverina, where there are also Black-fronted
Dotterels. The Golf course the other side of the sewage pipe is also a good spot
for birding.
Keep the local Council aware of the importance of
this area as they do like to encroach. Before the Olympics there was a waste
land at the end of the track that leads to the Golfing Range and football ovals
- this was totally cleared and temporary buildings erected. AFter that no more
Richards Pipits, Cisticolas and Double-barred Finches.
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