Birdline Central & Southern Queensland
Published sightings for the week ending 18 Jul 2010.
Sat 17 Jul Black-bellied Storm Petrels, Masked Booby Southport
Pelagic
3+ Black-bellied Storm Petrels, 1 Masked Booby, 30-40 Providence
Petrels, 1 Black-browed (imm) and 1 Yellow-nosed Albatross, Wilson's
Storm Petrel, Fluttering Shearwaters, 10-15 Fairy Prions, Australian
Gannets.
Rob Morris on the Southport Pelagic organised by Paul Walbridge
Hooded Plover Noosa North Shore
An update on the Hooded Plover. Still present and easy to find today on
the north shore. Originally reported about 4 weeks ago.
Steve Murray
Sun 11 Jul Masked Booby, Hutton's Shearwater, Brown Skua, Fairy
Prion North Stradbroke Island
Pt Lookout seawatch - Masked Booby (1). Hutton's Shearwater (1) + 1
Fluttering/Hutton's type Brown Skua (1). Fairy Prion (1) + 3 Prion sp.
Colin Reid, Stuart Warren and Rob Dougherty
Sat 10 Jul Yellow-nosed Albatross Point Lookout, North Stradbroke
Island
20 birds flew south during the day - none were seen to go north again
and assumed different individuals. One sadly was trailing a length of
fishing line. Also throughout the course of the day - 3 prion sp
(distant but probably Fairy), 1 Bridled/Sooty Tern (ad distantly), 1
Arctic Skua (ad), 3 Giant petrel sp. (inc one very close Northern), 15+
Fluttering Shearwater types, 10+ Common Noddy and many Gannet. Also 60
Humpbacks north throughout the day.
Andy Jensen, Chris Sanderson, Tom & Marie Tarrent, Gavin Goodyear
Fri 9 Jul Black-breasted Button-Quail,Beach Stone-curlew,Noisy
Pitta Inskip Point
2-3 male BBB Quail,2 Beach Stone-Curlew,Noisy Pitta,2 Shining Bronze
Cuckoos and a few White-cheeked Honeyeaters.
Stuart Pickering and Sam Woods
Thu 8 Jul Glossy Black Cockatoo Gheerulla, Blackall Range
4 birds
Greg Roberts
Sun 4 Jul Musk Lorikeet Dunwich, North Stradbroke Island
At least two birds roosting with Rainbow Lorikeets near Water-taxi
terminal
Andy Jensen, Stuart Pickering, Tom Tarrant, Rob & Ben Morris
Fairy Prion, Yellow-nosed Albatross, Black-browed Albatross,
Fluttering Shearwaters Pt Lookout
15-20 Fairy Prion, up to 10 Yellow-nosed Albatross, with one
Black-browed Albatross, and a couple of Fluttering Shearwaters.
Andy Jensen, Stuart Pickering, Tom Tarrant, Rob & Ben Morris
Yellow-nosed Albatross, Giant Petrel, Fairy Prions, Common
Noddy, Fluttering Shearwaters, Gannets Point Lookout,Stradbroke Island
Good afternoon seawatch with at least 15 Yellow-nosed and 1 Black-browed
Albatross,2 Giant Petrel sp,15 Prions including a definite Fairy close
in,10+ Common Noddies,5 Fluttering Shearwaters and lots of Gannets. At
Dunwich on way back 2 Musk Lorikeets seen whilst waiting for Ferry.
Stuart Pickering,Andy Jensen,Tom Tarrant and Rob Morris
Little Grassbird and Yellow-Rumped Thornbill Southport
Broadwater Parklands, Southport
Grassbird (heard only) in small man made wetland opposite Australian
Fair/Griffith University - calling regularly despite the traffic of many
thousands of people, music, helicopters etc for the gold coast marathon.
Thornbills (pair) in she-oaks slightly further to the north in same park
(up to caravan park)
Rob Dougherty
Sat 3 Jul Yellow-nosed Albatross, Brown Booby, Fairy Prion North
Stradbroke Island
Yellow-nosed Albatross: Afternoon between 15.00 and 17.00 (4). Brown
Booby: 9.00 - 10.00 (1). Fairy Prion: Difficult to count, 2 kms off
shore, except 1 definite Fairy P within 100m of the headland (10).
Colin Reid & Stuart Warren
Wed 30 Jun Beach Stone-Curlew Maroochy River
Two widely separated pairs
Greg Roberts
Sat 26 Jun Musk Lorikeet North Stradbroke Island
In eucalypts at Dunwich boat harbour (2).
Colin Reid, Stuart Warren, Andy Jensen
Albatrosses, Noddies, Terns and Gannets Point Lookout, North
Stradbroke Island
Seven Yellow-nosed Albatross north throughout day. Also Black-browed
Albatross (1), Common Noddy (up to 20 lingering offshore),
Lesser-crested Tern (2), probable White-fronted Tern and Australian
Gannet (50+)
Andy Jensen
Thu 24 Jun Musk Lorikeet Murrumba Downs Acacia Res (near pylons)
Sighted on morning walk along river, first time I have seen the in this
area. (Originally posted to Vic by mistake.)
John Dennison
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