I took a couple of American visitors to the Western Treatment Plant,
Werribee, this morning (Friday 23 April) for a quick visit of three and
a half hours, covering Paradise Road, Lake Borrie, the conservation area
and the borrow pits. It rained virtually all the time but we were very
comfortable birding from the car. We managed a total of 63 species with
the highlights being a Peregrine Falcon at Paradise Road ponds, a single
Blue-winged Parrot flushed from the road along the beach and possibly
the same individual perched in a tree at the conservation area, an
Arctic Jaeger flying over the lagoons near the beach and a Lewin's Rail
on the track on the south side of the conservation area. Full list
below.
Regards,
Tania
Blue-billed Duck
Musk Duck
Freckled Duck
Black Swan
Cape Barren Goose
Australian Shelduck
Australian Wood Duck
Pacific Black Duck
Australasian Shoveler
Grey Teal
Chestnut Teal
Pink-eared Duck
Hardhead
Hoary-headed Grebe
Little Pied Cormorant
Pied Cormorant
Little Black Cormorant
Great Cormorant
Australian Pelican
White-faced Heron
Great Egret
Cattle Egret
Australian White Ibis
Straw-necked Ibis
Royal Spoonbill
Yellow-billed Spoonbill
Black-shouldered Kite
Swamp Harrier
Brown Falcon
Peregrine Falcon
Lewin's Rail
Purple Swamphen
Dusky Moorhen
Black-tailed Native-hen
Eurasian Coot
Common Greenshank
Red-necked Stint
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
Curlew Sandpiper
Pied Oystercatcher
Black-winged Stilt
Red-necked Avocet
Masked Lapwing
Arctic Jaeger
Pacific Gull
Silver Gull
Crested Tern
White-winged Black Tern
Blue-winged Parrot
Superb Fairy-wren
Yellow-rumped Thornbill
White-fronted Chat
Flame Robin
Magpie-lark
Willie Wagtail
Australian Magpie
Little Raven
Skylark
House Sparrow
Welcome Swallow
Fairy Martin
Golden-headed Cisticola
Common Starling
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