Birdline Victoria Weekly Update

Birdline Victoria

Published sightings for the week ending 15 Jul 2012.

Sun 15 Jul	Black Falcon Little River Black Falcon flying along side Princes Hwy near the Little River turn off. Good views in great light... Ed Williams
	Southern Giant-Petrel Lorne Pier Southern Giant-Petrel (1) Dark morph juvenile wans loafing about 100 meters from the end of the pier at 12.40pm when we arrived. It stayed in that vicinity occasionally raising and lowering its wings. It flew out to sea at 1.30pm. Also White-capped Albatross out to sea. Hedley Earl
	Swift Parrot Moonee Ponds Creek, Moonee Valley One heard calling on the Moonee Ponds Creek near Brunswick Road. Chris Lester
Sat 14 Jul	Southern Giant-Petrel Lorne Pier, Lorne 1 single imm bird around pier. 1230hrs. Flying off occasionally before settling back on the water. Adrian de Leiros
	Brolga Western Treatment Plant, Werribee Brolga (1) Single Brolga in swamp land (sanctuary) at the end of 29 Mile Rd on right hand side just before the gate to Commonwealth Area. Hedley Earl
	Oriental Pratincole Western Treatment Plant, Werribee Thanks to some great assistance from Mark Bennet, David and Glen we managed to get this interesting picture this morning. Hedley and Irena Earl
	Oriental Pratincole Western Treatment Plant, Werribee Around rocks on the North shore of Summer Pond, South of Austin Road, mid-morning. Alan Crawford & others
Fri 13 Jul	Swift Parrot Connewarre, corner of Lake and Stacey's Roads. Single bird flying low and westerly, 1320hrs. Tom Fletcher
	Black-tailed Native-hen Western Treatment Plant, Werribee 7 birds seen on far bank of Austin Road Pond 1 as we were leaving app 5.00, having sighted he Oriental Pratincole during the day. Other highlights were White-bellied Sea-Eagle and Black Falcon (both seen twice). Also Banded Stilts in same pond as hens. Arthur Carew, John Stirling and many others
	Pink Robin St Kilda Botanical Gardens An update on this bird at this site.A female Pink Robin was seen again foraging around the Queensland Kauri and also under the Jacaranda near the ornamental pond. It was accompanied by a single Brown Thornbill and a possible second robin heard but not seen. Gio Fitzpatrick
	Sooty Shearwater St Ronans Well, Narbethong This bird was found on the road obviously blown well off course or some other unknown reason. I had trouble getting a positive ID until recently when I sent the pictures to Chris Tzaros who positively did so. Unfortunately it died the next day. (Reported on 1 May but published now as identity has been confirmed). Bob Tate
Thu 12 Jul	Oriental Pratincole Western Treatment Plant, Werribee No scope for me so gumboots it was down the West side of the lagoon South of Austin Rd. Located the bird a few hundred metres in, near a solitary dome-shaped bush. Observed for about 15 minutes. Then flushed by Swamp Harrier to Northern shoreline, where I located it again. Jackson Airey
	Oriental Pratincole Western Treatment Plant, Werribee Seen on the north west bank of Pond 2 thanks to Steve Davidson (and his scope) who was there showing Julie from Brisbane. He has a sixth sense in knowing where to find birds. He then showed everyone else where it was who hadn't seen it. Wendy McWilliams
Wed 11 Jul	Spotted Harrier Sub-Juvenile Western Treatment Plant, Werribee Bird flushed near Borrow Pits and observed for about 10 minutes not sure of its identity until consulted Hansard at home. Colin Johnson, Helen O'Donald, Murray Grant
Tue 10 Jul	Blue-faced Honeyeater Melbourne Zoo Seen in the Aus Bush Exhibit area, definitely not a collection bird. May be the one seen a few weeks ago. Peter Courtney, Curator Birds and Native Mammals per Deb Crosby
	Oriental Pratincole Western Treatment Plant, Werribee Single bird seen on NW bank of Summer Lagoon 2 (off Austin Rd) - thanks Steve Davidson for pointing us in the right direction. 15-20 Blue-winged Parrots in same area. 4 White-necked Herons on 29 Mile Rd near Austin Rd gate, 8 Freckled Duck on first pond in from Beach Rd Gate (4 on "Freckled Duck Rock"), adult Sea-eagle on Little River Dave Torr, Christine Shelley, Iian Denham, Peter Gibbons
Mon 9 Jul	Oriental Pratincole Austin Rd, Western Treatment Plant, Werribee Good views late in the afternoon of a single Oriental Pratincole along the shoreline of the pond to the south of Austin Rd (thank you Luke for showing me the site). Mel Mitchell
Fri 6 Jul	Red-tailed Black Cockatoo Harrow Nice surprise Friday evening when travelling from Little Desert NP to Hamilton via Harrow when near the golf course we stopped to find 50+ Red-tailed Black Cockatoos drinking from the roadside puddles right next to our car! Claire & Ziggy Wolinski
Thu 5 Jul	Cape Barren Goose French Island Pair sitting on 5 eggs at a farm dam, Tankerton Rd. Note: Cape Barren Geese have increased enormously on the island in the last 10 years. We estimate that there are now about 300 birds on the island, perhaps less half consisting of breeding pairs. The island has no foxes! :-) Chris Chandler
Tue 3 Jul	Cape Barren Goose Bullock Swamp, French Island 6 Cape Barren Geese, and also 38 Cattle Egret. Mick Douglas, per Chris Chandler
Mon 2 Jul	Banded Lapwing Batesford, near Geelong One flying over at 0800 hours Chris Chandler
Sat 30 Jun	Masked Owl Egans Lane, Newham Heard calling around house paddock in late June. He described the call as a 'harsh grating call' and in years gone by he has seen it calling around his house under the verandah lights. Laurie O'Connor per T.Fletcher
Sat 23 Jun	Blue-winged Parrot Elsternwick Golf Course A pair flying low through the course heading East. They were considerably smaller than Red-rumped Parrots and their call was a perfect match to the Blue-winged Parrot. call on the BOCA CD. Gio Fitzpatrick

Birdline Victoria is sponsored by BirdLife Victoria and co-ordinated and hosted by Eremaea Birds.

===============================

To unsubscribe from this mailing list,
send the message:
unsubscribe
(in the body of the message, with no Subject line)
to: 

http://birding-aus.org
===============================