Spent a few hours birding along Cove Rd, Stanmore (near Woodford, SEQ) last
Saturday morning. Route is about 8km staring at a reveg section along the
Stanley Rv at Commissioner's Flat ,then through pastoral country with many
small wetlands (mainly wet paddocks) and farm dams, with a small patch of euc
woodland about half-way.
Region is quite dry at the moment (by SEQ standards), with the wet
paddocks all dry, but the farm dams all have reasonable amounts of water.
We got a total of 66 species in under 3 hours, despite the dry
conditions. Highlights were Spectacled Monarch, Wompoo Pigeon, many Rufous and
Grey Fantail in the riverine reveg section of the Stanley River, a Buff-banded
Rail alongside a muddy channel, adult Rufous Night-Heron low-down in a tree
alongside a watercourse, roadside Chestnut-breasted Mannikin, and 4 egret
species.
At the wetland adjacant to 689 Cove Rd (site of Painted Snipe sightings
2 years ago) were a single Latham's Snipe, Comb-crested Jacana and a group of
15 Cotton Pygmy-goose, more than I've seen there before. A good rainfall is
needed to flood the paddocks and bring back the spoonbills, Magpie Goose,
Brolga and Jabiru which have appeared in good seasons past.
Russ Lamb, Maleny,SEQ
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