There's good birding to be had in the Capertee Valley (NSW) at the
moment. Highlights on Wednesday this week included:
-Plum-headed Finches and Painted Honeyeaters very easy to observe at
Coco Creek.
-Turquoise Parrots at a few locations including two resplendent males
on my own land.
-The Mugga Ironbarks are flowering well and Regent Honeyeaters are
still in the valley with at least one pair with young in a nest and
several other juveniles around. On Wednesday-Thursday this week I saw
a total of nine individuals, five of them this year's young.
-Large numbers of Little Lorikeets. There are also a few Musk
Lorikeets around where there is flowering Mugga, especially in the
northern end of the valley.
-Still quite a few White-browed Woodswallows around - some with
fledgelings, and a new species for my property being a pair of Masked
Woodswallows.
-Also on my land was a very young Pallid Cuckoo being fed by a
Yellow-tufted Honeyeater. The cuckoo was at the stage when its
plumage is strikingly variegated black and white. This stage is
described by Pizzey as "grotesque" but I thought it was quite
beautiful!
-Red-browed Treecreepers, and a pair of Leaden Flycatchers on a nest
near Glen Davis.
-White-bellied Cuckoo-shrike on a nest in the middle of the Glen
Davis camping ground.
-Many birds at the cottage where I stay (near Glen Alice) including
Hooded Robin, Chestnut-rumped Heathwren and Speckled Warbler. Also
nesting Restless Flycatchers and Dusky Woodswallows in a big tree
overhanging the house.
Most of the other usual birds were around including Little Eagle,
Black-chinned and Striped Honeyeater, Rainbow Bee-eaters,
White-winged Trillers, and a Jacky Winter with an ever-so-cute
just-fledged youngster!
Have a great Christmas and New Year everyone.
Cheers
Carol
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Carol Probets
PO Box 330
Katoomba NSW 2780
Blue Mountains, Australia
Phone (02) 4782 1831
International phone +61-2-4782 1831
Email:
Guided birding in the Blue Mountains and Capertee Valley
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