Lake Cagelligo - Round Hill

["Stuart Harris" <>]

Passed through Lake Cargelligo a week before Lindsay  & Rhonda and concur 
that the place was going off, 'greenest' I have seen it in the last five 
years and the splendor(wildflowers, birds, etc) continued all the way up 
through Cobar, Bourke and to the QLD border where I unfortunately have to 
report that we rolled (and wrote off) the car I was travelling in after 
visiting a dry and fly infested Culgoa NP which ironically provided the only 
'lifer' for the trip, a lovely Little button quail. Neither of us were 
seriously injured in the crash though my binos are no more.  One good thing 
was that the Nikon camera system I use was thrown 5m from the vehicle (at 
100kmph) and still works!!  Another interesting sighting was twice 
encountering the marvellous Plumed whistling duck at both Lake Cargelligo (x 
1) and on a dam on a property I recuperated at 60km East of Walgett (x 6).
Stuart Harris

"Everything is relative, everything is valid!"




> From: "Lindsay and Rhonda" <>
> To: "COG-L" <>
> Subject: [canberrabirds] Lake Cagelligo - Round Hill
> Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 21:38:04 +1000
>
> Rhonda and I spent the long weekend at Lake Cargelligo and Round Hill.  
> They
> have had a relatively good season and the place looks a picture at the
> moment.  Also plenty of birds around and we logged 111 species for the
> weekend.  Our best sightings were the white-winged wren at the Cargelligo
> sewerage plant, the shy heathwren and the little woodswallow at Round Hill.
> There were plenty of crimson chats around - they were everywhere.  Plenty 
> of
> honeyeaters too although some that we say last trip were absent (grey
> fronted most notable) but we did find the black and singing.  A good
> collection of waterbirds at the sewerage works, including sharp-tailed,
> curlew and marsh sandpipers, avocets and stilts, as well as a pair of
> shellducks.  An interesting find on the return trip was during a short stop
> at the Reefton State Forest near Temora.  Two years ago we stopped there 
> and
> during a wander through the reserve found a barking owl.  This time we
> walked barely 100 metres from our car and a barking owl flew overhead. Also
> a good population of brown treecreepers there.  Another notable feature of
> the trip was the numbers of white necked herons along the road particularly
> between West Wyalong and Cargelligo and there were three at the waterhole 
> at
> Round Hill.
>
>
>
> Lindsay and Rhonda Hansch


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