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Scheyville NP (65 km NW of Sydney CBD) - 26th Dec 04

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Subject: Scheyville NP (65 km NW of Sydney CBD) - 26th Dec 04
From: "Edwin Vella" <>
Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 14:16:08 +1100


This morning,
David Mitford, David Koffel and myself spent a few hours this morning at Scheyville NP in the hope of tracking down a pair of Red-chested Buttonquail seen there before Christmas. We saw no platelets and had no luck in finding it but we saw/heard a good variety of woodland birds including 2 Musk Lorikeets; Peaceful Doves; Pheasant Coucals (calling repeatedly throughout the morning); Fan-tailed and Shining Bronze-cuckoos; Jacky Winter; a pair Crested Shrike-tits; numerous Rufous Whistlers (lots of young birds. Just squeak and watch them all come around); Leaden Flycatchers; Variegated Wrens (3 adult males and a female); Buff-rumped Thornbill; White-throated Gerygones; Varied Sitellas; Double-barred Finches; Noisy Friarbirds; White-eared, Brown-headed and Scarlet Honeyeaters; Olive-backed Orioles and Dusky Woodswallows. The place appeared to be alive with birds!

 

The Pheasant Coucal is not typical bird of the dry shale country/Cumberland Plain Woodland (more so found in the coastal areas around Sydney where there is dense undergrowth like Narrabeen, Kur-ring-gai Chase NP, Red Hill, Cronulla area and Royal NP or along the Hawkesbury River) so its presence at Scheyville is quite interesting. Prospect Reservoir near Blacktown is another locality where it also has recently occurred in shale Country in Sydney. Also not typical of this habitat is the Variegated Wrens and White-eared Honeyeater.

 

Edwin Vella

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