Birdline Central & Southern Queensland Weekly Update

Birdline Central & Southern Queensland

Published sightings for the week ending 23 Jun 2013.

Sun 23 Jun	Freckled Duck Lake MacDonald Cooroy One Freckled Duck roosting with Little Black Cormorants Anne Burgess
	Freckled Duck, White-necked Heron Minnippi Parklands, Tingalpa Freckled Duck still present, asleep under the Island. White-necked Heron still on the Airfield (3rd week in a row!), also 2 White-bellied Cuckoo Shrikes in the scrub behind the Airfield Stuart Pickering
	Spectacled Monarch, Rose Robin, Shining Bronze-Cuckoo, Sacred Kingfisher Gold Creek Reservoir One late/overwintering Spectacled Monarch and approximately 10 Rose Robins at Gold Creek Reservoir today. Also 4+ Shining Bronze-Cuckoos and a Sacred Kingfisher. Plaxy Barratt, Dan Mantle, Michael Wood, Raja Stephenson & Nikolas Haass
	Hoary-headed Grebe Black Duck Hole, Murrumba Downs Single bird at northern end of southern pond this afternoon. Black-tailed Native-hen still nearby in Dohles Rocks along with 60+ Pink-eared Duck and Spotted Harrier. Andy Jensen
Sat 22 Jun	Striated Heron Priors Pocket Road, Priors Pocket Striated Heron (1) Floating down the Brisbane River on a branch Adrian Brooks
Sat 22 Jun	Black Kite East Brisbane A huge commotion in the local Noisy Miner and Torresian Crow crowd alerted us to a Black Kite flying over our place. It was then harassed by a Torresian Crow and chased past 'The Gabba'. Nikolas Haass & Raja Stephenson
Thu 20 Jun	Pink-eared Duck Dowse Lagoon, Sandgate About 30 observed on the lagoon Vince Bugeja
	Freckled Duck Dowse Lagoon Sandgate Two observed from hide at the lagoon Vince Bugeja
	Banded Lapwing Perrigian Springs One bird in the newly cleared area. Matt Davies
	Australian Little Bittern Sandy Camp Road Wetlands Reserve sub-adult in reeds on left of path going to hide at 3.30 pm Steve & Tessa Blaber
	Black-tailed Native-hen Dohles Rocks Single bird in paddocks of house opposite Osprey House Environmental Centre. Favouring area to right of driveway to house, in paddock by pond. Also c.40 Pink-eared Ducks still on pond and a Swamp Harrier through. Andy Jensen
Tue 18 Jun	Beach Stone-curlew Beachmere Two birds sighted on mud flats near mouth of Caboolture River John Dennison
	Pink-eared Duck Oxley Creek Common A single bird this morning - not a rare vagrant of course, but maybe of interest to list keepers! Colin Reid
Mon 17 Jun	Black-necked Stork Tamborine Village A male beside the Beenleigh- Beaudesert Road near the Fred Bucholz Dam turnoff. Barry Davies
	Freckled Duck 'Tee Trees Wetlands', Arundel Single bird seen this afternoon with numerous Pacific Black Duck on the wetland behind the houses of Golden Bear Drive. First time I have seen this species on the Gold Coast. Swamp Harrier also seen at this location today. Todd Burrows
	Spotted Harrier Old Tamborine Road Weir, Oxenford One bird seen flying east across the weir this morning at about 9am. Another bird seen about midday flying east over Regatta Av. Oxenford being mobbed by Masked Lapwing. First time I have seen this species on the Gold Coast. Todd Burrows
Thu 13 Jun	Black Kite M1/Gold Coast Hwy intersection 1 Black Kite over the trees in the triangle east of M1/north of GCHwy. Nikolas Haass

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