Birdline ACT Weekly Update

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Published sightings for the week ending 6 Nov 2011.

Sun 6 Nov	Sharp-tailed Sandpiper Fyshwick Sewage Treatment Plant 14 Sharp-tailed Sandpipers - unusually large number. Also 4 Pink-eared Duck. Frank Antram
	Brush Bronzewing Blundell's Creek and Warks Roads 1 Brush Bronzewing, but heard only, unfortunately. Frank Antram
	Dollarbird Mt Pleasant A single Dollarbird sitting on the high voltage power lines that cross over the road to the summit of Mt Pleasant. Nick Payne & Ann Armstrong
	Rainbow Bee-Eater Mt Pleasant A pair of Bee-Eaters sitting on the power lines above the obstacle course just to the east of the summit road. Nick Payne & Ann Armstrong
Sat 5 Nov	Rainbow Bee-eater Coree, Uriarra Road/Mountain Creek Road junction 1 Rainbow Bee-eater. Also 1 at Uriarra Dam just up the road. Frank Antram
	Brush Cuckoo Blundell's Creek and Warks Roads 1 Brush Cuckoo was the highlight of a beautiful morning in Warks Road. Neither sight nor sound of my target, Cicadabird, however. Very close views of a Pilotbird in response to pishing. Frank Antram
	Eurasian Coot Fassifern Pond, West Macgregor Observed a Eurasian Coot with three small chicks on Fassifern Pond early this morning. I note that the COG site has them as breeding "very occasionally". Guess this is one of those occasions. Michael Kingsford
Fri 4 Nov	Australian Shoveler West Belconnen Ponds Female shoveler paddling around with 6 ducklings late afternoon Scott Ryan
	Australian Painted Snipe, Cattle Egret, Royal Spoonbill, Kelly's Swamp & Jerrabomberra Wetland, Fyshwick 1 male Australian Painted Snipe observed this morning as were 9 Cattle Egret and 2 Royal Spoonbill. Alastair Smith
	Pink-eared Duck Fyshwick Sewage Treatment Plant 11 Pink-eared Duck this morning. Alastair Smith
	Baillon's Crake West Belconnen Pond A single bird foraging on the most southerly island. Stephen Wallace
Tue 1 Nov	Buff-banded Rail Coree, Uriarra Road/Mountain Creek Road junction 1 Buff-banded Rail flushed next to the dam. Brendan Sheean
	White-browed Woodswallows Wybalena Grove Cook A flock of at least 30 Woodswallows, high over Wybalena Grove Cook at 17.35. The few I could identify were White-browed. Heading slowly north-west. Nicki Taws
Mon 31 Oct	White fronted Chats Uriarra Road (35.15.34.87 S 148.56.08.37 E) The pair of White fronted Chats on the Uriarra Rd might be a nesting pair. The female was carrying a grass stork while I was photographing them. Roger Williams
Sun 30 Oct	Australian Painted Snipe Kelly's Swamp Jerrabomberra Wetlands Frank Antram reported a sighting of a pair of Painted Snipes on Sunday 30th October. I was there looking for photo opportunities and managed to snap the Snipes being "disturbed" by one of the many White Ibises around the area that afternoon. Here is a link to these shots. https://picasaweb.google.com/edquay/PaintedSnipesJerrabomberra?authkey=Gv1sRgCO37lKyc1NDaYg#5669385902093760498; Ed Quay
Sat 29 Oct	Rufous Songlark, Little Grassbird, Spotted Crake Tuggeranong I got a Little Grassbird and Spotted Crake at the little pond behind the dog training area on Rowland Rees Crescent near the Tuggeranong Town Centre. Philip Veerman
Thu 27 Oct	White fronted Chat PCS Stromlo Depot, Cotter Road WESTON There were two birds interested in rank grass beside the auto-gate to the complex. The complex is totally surrounded by roads, infrastructure and suburban development at present and some 2km from the chats more usual local area of Stromlo Park. Time 10.30 hrs Rosemary Blemings

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