I have just come back from a great couple of days birding at Table Top
Mountain (Kalawa) near Albury (NSW). Their accommodation is perched on the
edge of the Yambla Range and they have a bird list of 140 species. My list
for over 3 days was 80 species. The vegetation consists of box,
stringybark, dwyer's red gum and acacia scrub. An enormous amount of
eucalypts were in flower attracting some 7 species of honeyeater but no
lorikeets.
Highlights were a single Turquoise Parrot on the first day, a
Black-chinned Honeyeater which decided to spend 2 whole days 'hanging out'
in the big eucalypt outside our cottage and the pair of Chestnut-rumped
Thornbills foraging in flowering shrubs on the summit of Table Top
(>600m). This must surely be on the limit of their range. A pair of
Peregrine Falcons were also nesting on the sheer cliffs. The walk to the
summit takes about 2 hours.
Walking along the Bird Walk at Table Top to a dam I found some 40
White-browed Woodswallows and 20 Masked Woodswallows and a single Dusky
Woodswallow. Also here White-browed Babbler (2 groups of 4 birds), Little
Friarbird (2), Buff-rumped Thornbill (2), many Peaceful Doves and Common
Bronzewings and a pair of Gang-gang Cockatoos. At night we heard Southern
Boobook and an Australian Owlet-Nightjar. We were told a tree outside the
cottage also housed a large Goanna although we didnt see it. We did have a
White-throated Treecreeper which every evening would settle down for the
night by our front door clinging to the wooden cottage wall just under the
verandah roof. A new species for the property was Australasian Shoveler
(6).
A quick visit to the Wonga Wetlands outside Albury on the Murray produced
several White-breasted Woodswallows on 1/10. I highly recommend these
wetlands. I last visited some 4 years ago.
Cheers
Marnix Zwankhuizen
Gungahlin ACT
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