Fyshwick/Campbell

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A couple of hours in Fyshwick and Campbell yesterday produced some great sightings. 

At the sewage ponds, overrun with rabbits, there was a whistling kite, plenty of reed-warblers, two swans, silvereyes, goldfinches, a black-faced cuckoo-shrike and the highlight was at least 2 golden-headed cisticolas along the path back to the car, calling vigorously. 

Addison Road near ADFA is one of my favourite spots for a quick drop-in, ever since the red-backed kingfisher visited some years ago.  There was a lot of activity, including a white-winged triller, quite a few grey shrike-thrushes, white-plumed honeyeaters and my first shingleback of the season.

I finished the afternoon at Campbell Park where I got a sore neck from trying to identify all the activity around me.  The highlight was at least 2 shining bronze-cuckoos, as well as plenty of dusky woodswallows, bronzewings, sittellas, red-rumped parrots and trillers.  Also another shingleback, a male mistletoebird and a female rufous whistler.  I also averted my eyes politely from a pair of sulphur-crested cockatoos mating.

Maurits Zwankhuizen

 

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