Published sightings for the week ending 14 Aug 2011.
Sat 13 Aug
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Barn Owl
Kama Nature Reserve
Barn Owl spotted sitting in a tree a few hundred metres along track tonight.
Scott Ryan
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Superb Parrot
Cook - reserve adjacent to Lyttleton Crescent and Wybalena Grove
Calls heard early yesterday morning and then two seen this morning. Superbs are seen daily here over summer – but this is the earliest we have seen them in the season.
Kim and Geoff Larmour
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Fri 12 Aug
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Crescent Honeyeater, Satin Bowerbird
Australian National Botanic Gardens
Eight green Satin Bowerbirds and a male Crescent Honeyeater observed this morning at the ANBG.
Alastair Smith
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Black-shouldered Kite
Callum Brae
Two Black shouldered kites seen around noon today sitting quietly in adjacent trees. Also two kestrels, a brown falcon, and surprisingly for
August, a brown goshawk had a couple of swoops at me as I passed
through its breeding territory from last year
sandra henderson
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Wed 10 Aug
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Speckled Warbler, Southern Whiteface
Uriarra TSR
A trip to the TSR produced 38 species this morning including 3 Speckled Warblers and 2 Southern Whiteface. Also observed four species of honeyeater.
Alastair Smith
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Tue 9 Aug
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White-faced Heron
Fyshwick Sewage Treatment Plant
Seven White-faced Herons at the sewage ponds this morning.
Alastair Smith
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Little Eagle
Kelly's Swamp & Jerrabomberra Wetland, Fyshwick
Two Little Eagles observed circling over the southern end of Kellys this morning.
Alastair Smith
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Australian Pelican
Lake Burley Griffin
Close to 50 over Lake Burley Griffin at 1:30pm. First seen near Commonwealth Ave Bridge and heading west towards Scrivener Dam.
Alison Mackerras
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Mon 8 Aug
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Barn Owl
Mortimer Lewis Dve Greenway
A Barn Owl being harrassed by a group of magpies, ravens and currawongs. It was perched on the balcony rail of a 2 storeyed home unit, then on the ground , then on a window flyscreen, then it disappeared along with its noisy companions.
Anne Hall
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Sun 7 Aug
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Peregrine Falcon
Kingston ACT
Pair hunting successfuly around the two high rise buildings in Jardine St, Kingston adjacent to Telopea Park.
Shaun Bagley
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Thu 4 Aug
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Barn Owl
Hackett
Returned from a date with a pizza last night to a phone call from our co-diners to say there was a Barn Owl sitting outside their house in Hackett. Luckily we live around the corner and raced around to crippling views of it sitting in a leafless tree – a new garden bird for them and an ‘ACT tick’ for me!
Also some friends reported a Barn Owl being chased by an Australian Raven across Canberra Ave in Manuka/Forrest on 2 August at about 8.45 AM.
David Andrew
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Mon 1 Aug
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Australian Hobby
Australian Institute of Sport Carpark Bruce
Saw two hobbies inspecting a large stick nest (looked like Magpie or Raven) in a tall gum tree in the car park near the AIS visitor centre in Bruce. Problem was that the hobbies were being aggressively inspected by a mob of about 15 Noisy Miners. I observed them for no more than 4 minutes. The two hobbies eventually flew off towards the CIT campus. Will keep an eye on the site.
Paul Fennell
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