I went to Jandowae today - also to hopefully add a Pied Honeyeater to
my life list, and see some other species I'd not seen for many a moon.
A great area, albeit I had all the suggested spots to myself today,
with not another birder in sight.
Well I managed many of the recently reported birds with the major
exception of the Pied Honeyeater.
Some of the birds seen included
Spotted Harrier, Nankeen Kestrel, Brown Falcon, Rufous Songlark,
Brown Songlark, Pallid Cuckoo, Fan-tailed Cuckoo, White-winged
Triller, Black-faced Woodswallow, Black Honeyeater ( only a couple
seen, I expected to see more given the reports) , Singing Honeyeater,
Brown Honeyeater, Painted Honeyeater ( about six in total, excellent
views at the nest as reported by Tom), Striped Honeyeater, Spiny-
cheeked Honeyeater, Yellow-throated Miner, Noisy Miner,
Mistletoebird, Rufous Whistler, Superb fairy-wren, Yellow Thornbill,
Blue Bonnet, Cockatiel, Sulphur-crested Cockatoo, Little Corella,
Pale-headed Rosella, Galah, Diamond Dove, Crested Pigeon, Peaceful
Dove, Bar-shouldered Dove, Grey Shrike-thrush, Grey-crowned Babbler,
Apostlebird, Double-bar Finch, Pied and Grey Butcherbirds etc
A great location about three hours drive from Brisbane.
A large dam ( not sure of the name, its on private property) between
Dalby and Toowoomba had good numbers of water birds inc Glossy Ibis,
Australian Shoveler and Pink-eared Duck on the way back.
The lake at the University of Queensland at Gatton was my final stop
with the usual suspects - good numbers of Pied Geese, Plumed
Whistling-duck, Pink-eared Duck, Red-kneed Dotterel, Black-fronted
Dotterel etc
David Taylor
Brisbane
On 14/10/2007, at 2:35 PM, Tom Tarrant wrote:
After Dan Mantle's excellent report last weekend Marie and I
decided to join
the 'pilgrimage' and try to see a species which Marie hadn't seen
and I had
only one sighting (18 years ago!)
We were successful and probably saw up to ten birds at various
locations and
were even shown a nest at Site 5 by a group of Toowoomba birdos
including
Plaxy Barratt, Mick Atzeni and Michael Wood . Sadly we 'dipped' on the
reported Pied Honeyeaters but had great views of Black. White-winged
Trillers are all over this area and there appeared to be many
Pallid Cuckoos
in attendance. I presume the Trillers are the cuckoos choice of hosts?
Other species seldom seen in our part of the world were Black-faced,
White-browed and Masked Woodswallow, Diamond Dove, Plum-headed Finch,
Red-backed Kingfisher and Singing Honeyeater.
If anyone needs further details check out Dan's original posting on
the
Archives.
Tom
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