Thanks everyone for your suggestions
(positive and negative).
We ended up dipping on all 3 species.
Despite this, our focus wasn’t
really that narrow, and we did see a lot of birds around the ACT.
Highlights included:
Lots of Flame Robins along Blundells Ck Rd
Plentiful Fuscous Honeyeaters at Orroral
Campground
2 Wedge-tailed Eagles circling beside
Campbell Park
3 Spotless Crakes in the outlet of Kelly
Swamp
Musk Ducks at Yerrabi pond
Grey-crowned Babbler at RMC
Rainbow Lorikeets at Hawker
White-throated Needletails high above
Dickson on stormy Thursday evening
No sign of any Brown Treecreepers at Newline
– have these disappeared as well?
Cheers
Mat and Cath
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Sent: Friday, 10 February 2006
9:48 AM
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Subject: [canberrabirds] RFI: 3
species
Cath and I (and
new baby) will be in Canberra late next week and weekend, and wondered whether:
1) any Koels
were still lurking around in the Canberra suburbs?
2) are Superb
Parrots still a chance in Belconnen/Cook (perhaps late Feb is
pushing it)
3) I’m almost to scared to ask, but I will
anyway… has anyone apart from Yarden had any ST Dove sightings recently?
If so, can anyone offer us suggestions as to
well-defined locations we can start looking for these species?
Thanks
Cheers
Mat
