Birdline Central & Southern Queensland Weekly Update

Birdline Central & Southern Queensland

Published sightings for the week ending 30 Mar 2014.

Sun 30 Mar	Black Bittern Sandy Camp Road Wetlands Reserve 1 seen briefly flying across back pond at 0610 Stuart Pickering & Colin Reid
	Eastern Yellow Wagtail Sandy Camp Road Wetlands Reserve Flew in to usual spot on 3rd lagoon at 8.28. Alan Crawford
Sat 29 Mar	Lewin's Rail Sandy Camp Road Wetlands Reserve Seen Sat morning at approx 9am on the footpath leading from the car park along with three Brown Quails Ken Doy
	Nutmeg Mannikin Parklakes Wetlands Forest and Grasslands Areas The open grassland SouthWest of the Wetlands was busy this morning with Nutmeg and Chestnut-breasted Mannikins, Scarlet Honeyeater, Rufous and Golden Whistler and Varied Triller. Ross Sinclair
	Grey Goshawk Caloundra City Southern End of Nicklin Way Ross Sinclair
	Eastern Yellow wagtail Sandy Camp Road Wetlands Reserve Seen around 4pm from the peninsular between 2nd and 3rd Lagoon Ken Doy
Mon 24 Mar	Australian Little Bittern (Black-backed Bittern) Parklakes Wetlands, Bli Bli 4 Australian Little Bitterns (Black-backed Bitterns): adult male and adult female with two fully fledged but still dependent juveniles. The adults were observed feeding the juveniles twice. Nikolas Haass & Raja Stephenson
Sun 23 Mar	Powerful Owl Mount Greville, Moogerah, SE Queensland Approaching Palm Gorge, owl took refuge in a less vulnerable tree, but was mobbed out by smaller birds. Peter Horler & Liz Gould
Fri 21 Mar	Grey-fronted Honeyeater Binkey 1 State Forest via Miles SQ A single bird seen in the afternoon about 2.30pm in small eucalypt in the ecotone of an area of heath surrounded by eucalypt woodland. GPS - GDA94 S26.36761 x E150.12260; +/- 50 metres. Rod Hobson
Tue 18 Mar	masked owl Kenmore Hills Bird heard calling around 8pm. Seen flying northwards from creek. A masked owl (injured) was found a few years ago in Brookfield. Powerful Owl calls most evenings but seldom hear Masked Owl. justin watson
Mon 10 Mar	Black Honeyeater Rockmount via Helidon SEQ Three Black Honeyeaters (1 x male, 2 x female) seen about 7.50am on private property off Priors Road, Rockmount. Morning cool with slight drizzle. GPS for sighting: GDA94 - S27.69377 x E150.02620; +/- 50 metres. Other reliable reports of this species from the general area recently, from Highfields and Wyreema near Toowoomba. Rod Hobson

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