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Hi
I'm
heading off to Hobart next week on business and was wondering if anybody knew of
any sites for striated fieldwren close to Hobart or on the tasman
peninsula.
Cheers
mark
whittaker
Hello Russ,
I say "here here" on Superb Fruit Dove! Truly my bogey bird for
sure! Having seen just about every non vagrant species possible over Sth
East Queensland there is one bird that over many years has evaded me. In fact,
as Sean Dooley lamented in his book about the Grey Falcon , I wonder if the
bird actually exists! And yet I know like you, out there will be
birders who say how easy it is to see! ......" Yeah mate, ten a penny out my
way!"
........Through many a rainforest and scrub, scouring fig trees from the
border to Central and North Queensland, Cape York and beyond - in all
the places they are meant to be, but I have, but one of them, never
seen!
So I wish you luck on your quest to see a Superb Fruit Dove! And let me
know when you do! And I'm sure when I go after it - the coop it will have
flown!
David Taylor
Brisbane
On 14/02/2006, at 11:27 AM, Dam Lamb wrote:
With the excitement of 30 new
birds from our Broome trip now well behind me, I'm trying to regain that
ticking feeling. I've decided to elevate the Superb Fruit-Dove to" next
bogey bird" status. This will ensure it takes me years to get it (but I've
already been trying, on and off, for a few years ) , that other birders will
regale me with tales of how easy it is (sure),and that I'll develop an
unusual fondness for fig trees.
I've identified the Gheerulla
Falls track, west of Mapleton on the nortern end of the Blackall Range,as a
likely spot close to home (why be frustrated with dipping thousands of
kms away when you can do it more comfortably from home?). Things were
looking good on arrival, the track had been cleared, it wasn't raining, and
, most importantly, there were plenty of fruiting figs.Great.Well I saw
Wompoo
Pigeon, Brown Cuckoo-Dove, Top-knot Pigeon and even
heard a Rose-crowned
Fruit-Dove calling from deep in the gully.
I saw over 20 Pied
Currawong feasting on the figs and
excluding all others from their tree of choice.I saw Figbirds
and Satin
Bowerbirds enjoying the figs in the
currawong-free zones. I saw the usual rainforest lovelies like
Rufous
Fantail, Pale-yellow Robin and listened to the trilling
Fan-tailed
Cuckoo and the Yellow-tailed
Black Cockatoos as they flew overhead.But I
didn't come close to a Superb Fruit-Dove. Not on this
visit.
Russ Lamb, Maleny,
SEQ
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