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Birdline North Queensland
Published sightings for the week ending 4 May 2014.
| Sun 4 May
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Great Knot
Lucinda beach
Flight of some in about 100 Great Knots (Calidris tenuirostris) at Lucinda today. Presumed birds that didn't feel up to the Northern Hemisphere trek this season. Listing with pic because eBirder queried number and sighting
Tony Ashton
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Shining Flycatcher
Stuart bypass, Ross River Mouth, Townsville
A pair of shining flycatchers were seen this morning in the mangroves next to Stuart Bypass, east side of the Southern Port Drive, together with leaden flycatchers, mangrove honeyeaters, grey fantails, mangrove & large-billed gerygones. A small area of mangrove, but full of birdlife!
Matt McIntosh & Stanley Tang
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| Sat 3 May
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Little Eagle (dark morph)
Paluma Range Nat Park (Paluma dam)
A single bird seen flying over the dam around 10am this morning. Unfortunately the photo wasn't ideal, but is sufficient enough to identify as a Little Eagle.
Stanley Tang & Matt McIntosh
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Grey Goshawk
Paluma Village
A single bird sitting on the power pole, then circled around the village before disappeared into the forest.
Matt McIntosh & Stanley Tang
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Crested Shrike-tit
Grandis Forest track at 19°01'16'S 146°08'37'E
A single male was seen this morning at the entrance of the Grandis Forest track in Paluma. Many trees are flowering. Great diversity of bird life there, including a good number of scarlet, yellow-faced, bridled, white-cheeked and white-naped honeyeaters.
Stanley Tang & Matt McIntosh
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| Tue 29 Apr
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Carpentarian Grasswren
McNamara Road, Carpentarian Grasswren Site
Very little suitable habitat left unburnt for the grasswrens - not sure how previous reporter (March 2013) found them at the 6.6km from Barkly Highway site - I certainly could not. I was last here in June 2012, and family groups were present on at least three 'hill' sides (must have quartz/rocky substrate). After a great deal of searching over two days I did manage to find a tiny island of reasonable habitat unburnt about 12km from Barkly Highway, 0.5km or so to the west, which yielded a single, and very elusive Carpentarian Grasswren. This follows good sightings of Kalkadoon Grasswren at the Sybella Creek site 20km south of Mount Isa and Rusty Grasswren at Opalton. This makes 8 grasswren species seen and photographed in just over two weeks. Next stop: Dusky.
John Weigel
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