Birdline Victoria
Published sightings for the week ending 28 Oct 2014.
Sun 26 Oct Freckled Duck Eynesbury Ornamental Lake
One Freckled Duck seen at Eynesbury ornamental lake, near Melton. Seen
during Bird Week in Melton activities. Twelve Freckled Ducks last seen
here in March 2014
Daryl Akers
Freckled Duck Ruffey Lake Doncaster
Freckled Ducks in second small lake and Buff-banded Rail at first small
lake. Many Noisy Miners a few Grey Butcherbirds and 2 Nankeen Night
Heron.
Andrew Wallis
King Quail St Andrews Beach Mornington Peninsula
One bird seen in backyard. Can't rule out an aviary escape - bird was
not particularly tame.
Nina Hutchison
Banded Lapwing Large area of vacant land, Williams Landing
At 1840 hours, we observed nine Banded Lapwings on the large area of
open vacant land bounded by Palmers Road, Freya Drive, Chessington
Drive and Williams Landing Boulevard, Williams Landing. Four of the
birds appeared to be juvenile.
Peter & Robyn Gibbons
Eastern Koel Bay St & Rowan St Golden Square (Bendigo)
One bird heard distinctly at 8am.
Ken Dredge
Sat 25 Oct White-throated Gerygone Private property, Earlston
One bird seen and heard in box-ironbark woodland at Earlston. First
local record in 20 years' observation here.
Doug Robinson
Common Greenfinch Trentham railway station
At least 4-5 singing males in the vicinity of Trentham railway station
and over towards main street; from atop oaks and cypresses. Only
started calling in the last 2-3 days. Inexplicably invisible during
much of the rest of the year when not singing! Very rare and patchily
distributed in this local area.
Lawrie Conole
Fri 24 Oct Australian Owlet-nightjar, White-browed Woodswallow, Varied
Sitella Rocklands State Forest--Rocklands-Cherrypool Road, Victoria
Small family group of Sittellas were actively collecting food and
feeding it to nestlings in tree beside road. Also at this site we saw
White-browed Woodswallows looking at a possible nest site and an Owlet
Nightjar out in the sun for approximately 10-15minutes. BirdLife
Hamilton outing.
Samantha Greiner & BirdLife Hamilton
Sun 19 Oct Crimson Rosella St Andrews Beach Mornington Peninsula
Unusual coloured bird, there were two birds with this colour. I was
visiting the area so not familiar with the birds in this area. Is this
colour form common on Mornington Peninsula?
John Hutchison
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