Tharwa, Namadgi

That sounds like almost the same spot
I saw a Black Falcon a year or 2 ago (around the same time 1 was seen at
Campbell Park too). It was perched near the top of the gorge wall approx.
500m upstream from the Tharwa Sandwash car park.

Marnix

10/01/2005 04:30 PM

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Subject	[canberrabirds] Tharwa, Namadgi
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Tharwa Sandwash. Friday  7th. Saw nesting
bee-eaters, rufous songlarks, 3 black fronted  dotterels (1 juvenile),
2 whitefaces, male rufous whistler on a nest, redbrows  with fledged
juveniles. Interestingly  2 diamond firetails were there (didn't see
them last time), and finally saw a  male hooded robin. 1 Dollarbird
swooped what I am pretty sure from the jizz, was  a black falcon,
but hard to see at distance. The black falcon later flew to the  East
side of the river and fed 2 begging fledglings. 5 Goldfinches including
3  juveniles.

 

Namadgi visitors centre, Saturday  8th.
Near the Centre saw 4 restless flycatchers, 2 fledglings being  fed.
1 adult diamond firetail and 2 juveniles. A white winged triller on a nest.
 Very large MFF- Many trillers, with 2  fledglings being fed
by parents(very  striped), rufous whistler fledglings being fed by
parents. Western and  white throated gerygones, fuscous honeyeaters,
4 sittellas, satin flycatcher  male, horshfield's bronze cuckoo. 1
Whiteface. Rufous songlark. 

 

Orroral campground. At least 4  and probably 6 sacred
kingfishers with at least 2 being juveniles. Quite a few  white eared
honeyeaters, yf and 1 wn honeyeaters. 3 Fuscous honeyeaters having a  bath
as well as other birds. Common bronzewing.

 

Benj  Whitworth