The following is a digest of Sightings Reported on Birdpedia for the period
Monday, February 17, 2014 to Sunday, February 23, 2014:
Area: SA
Date: Sunday, February 16, 2014
Location: On our Rockleigh property
White-faced Heron (Egretta novaehollandiae) (1) 30 days after the devastating
bushfire we had 118mm rain, most over 24 hours. The waterholes filled and a
heron appeared.
Restless Flycatcher (Myiagra inquieta) (1) The restless flycatcher returned
after an 8-month holiday somewhere else.
The day after the January fire we recorded 6 species of bird, this weekend
there were 20, which is well over the average for a pre-fire summer weekend.
Unburned eucalypts have put out a lot of new growth, usual at this time of
year, and the weebills and a striated pardalote were back. The pipits were back
in their usual haunt, despite there being not a blade of grass, just rocks.
Swallows flew around the shed after being absent for a month. After the rain
insects were abundant.
A party of white-browed babblers were foraging in what seemed to be a large
totally dead Acacia bush. Brown treecreepers were climbing (partly-blackened)
trunks. Little ravens have moved in. Pre-fire we used to see just a few. This
weekend there were 40.
Reported by: Barbara and Peter Bansemer on Tuesday, February 18, 2014
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Date: Tuesday, February 18, 2014
Location: Kangaroo Island
Fork-tailed Swift (Apus pacificus) (50) flying low into North wind, Vivonne
Bay, KI, 2 Feb 14; thunderstorm activity; heavy dark cloud
Grey Plover (Pluvialis squatarola) (56) at Cape Rouge high tide roost, KI, 16
Feb 14
Whimbrel (Numenius phaeopus) (2) at Cape Rouge high tide roost, KI, 16 Feb 14
Red-necked Stint (Calidris ruficollis) (100) at Cape Rouge high tide roost, KI,
16 Feb 14
Eastern Reef Egret (Egretta sacra) (1) at Cape Rouge high tide roost, KI, 16
Feb 14
Grey Teal (Anas gracilis) (450) at Cape Rouge high tide roost, KI, 16 Feb 14
Chestnut Teal (Anas castanea) (40) at Cape Rouge high tide roost, KI, 16 Feb 14
Glossy Black-Cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus lathami) (4) feeding in planted Drooping
Sheoaks on 'Naturally Farm' near mouth of Stunsail Boom River, SW KI, 2 and 3rd
Feb 2014 (4 on 2nd Feb; 2 on 3rd Feb); thought to be the most southerly
observation of this species on KI; presumed to have travelled to this location
by following NW or NE River downstream, both these rivers originate in
Gosselands, Flinders Chase NP ( they join to form the Stunsail Boom); both have
limited amount of naturally occurring pockets of sheoak growing along them.
Blue-billed Duck (Oxyura australis) (6) three pairs; males resplendant in full
breeding regalia, Kingscote sewage ponds, 16 Feb 14
Painted Button-quail (Turnix varius) (3) in south coast mallee near Prospect
Hill, KI, 17 Feb 14
Reported by: Chris Baxter on Tuesday, February 18, 2014
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Date: Thursday, February 20, 2014
Location: Goolwa Barrage
Wood Sandpiper (Tringa glareola) (1) Goolwa 'Bird Sanctuary'. Seen from
roadside 100m south of the bird hide.
Curlew Sandpiper (Calidris ferruginea) (20) Approximately 20 Curlew Sandpiper
around the island on salt water side of barrage.
Other birds present around the island included 60 Red-necked Avocet, 3 Common
Greeshank, one Marsh Sandpiper, three Black-winged Stilt, four Red-kneed
Dotterel, about 40 each of Sharp-tailed Sandpiper and Red-necked Stint. one
Royal Spoonbill and one Little Egret.
Reported by: Bob Snell, Neil Cheshire and John Hatch. on Saturday, February 22,
2014
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