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Subject: [canberrabirds] Rufous Songlark
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 03:17:41 +0100
> After last week's report of a rufous songlark at the Chapman end of
> Cooleman Ridge, I went for a look myself on Saturday morning and found
it
> almost immediately. It was very loud and active. Despite the wind, it
> was a wonderful day and so green. I also saw a sacred kingfisher, at
> least a dozen or more dusky woodswallows and hordes of yellow-faced
> honeyeaters.
>
> I also took a walk along a tree-lined path just north of Narrabundah
Hill
> which abuts private property. Again, a lot of activity for such a cold
> windy day. A pair of gang-gangs flew over, a kestrel hovered and
snatched
> up what looked like a skink, and I enjoyed the company of kookaburras.
> Also 2 goldfinches and again lots of yellow-faced honeyeaters.
>
> Yesterday I spent the afternoon walking down from near the top of Mt
> Ainslie and I eventually found myself all the way down in Campbell Park.
> Not much activity at first but I did get swooped for the first time this
> season. 31 bird species in total, including a white-browed scrubwren
> beating a slug to death on a log, sittellas, bronzewings and rufous
> whistlers. Also a lone swamp wallaby, an echidna and the vanishing
> rear-end of what looked like a rat or antechinus maybe. I saw a female
> mistletoebird eating or drinking from a clump of mullein on the ground,
> which was bizarre. The walk back was rewarded with good views of about
5
> yellow-tailed black cockatoos congregating on and near the ground. One
> kept up a constant drilling sound for ages, which also attracted a few
> chattering crimson rosellas. Then almost back at the car there was an
> immature bird of prey perched in a dead tree, with the remnants of its
> down fluffed out. It was more likely a hobby than a peregrine falcon.
>
> Maurits Zwankhuizen
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