South Coast - 18/19 April

We spent two days in the Tomakin area
on the South Coast after Easter. Birding highlights were:

# Seeing a Powerful Owl along
Dunns Creek Road in Mogo SF while looking unsuccessfully for Yellow-bellied
Gliders.
# 2 Bassian Thrushes at Eurobodalla
Regional Botanical Gardens.
# An Intermediate Egret in the
Tomaga River Estuary.
# A Cicadabird heard calling
on the edge of Tomakin.
# Sooty Oystercatchers at Rosedale
Beach and Tomaga River Estuary.
# 3 Black-fronted Dotterels among
the many waterbirds at the slowly drying 'Barlings Swamp' on Bevian Rd.
Also a very black-shelled turtle on a bank.
# A Peregrine Falcon hunting
over the Shoalhaven River at Warri Reserve.
# A flock of over 600 Sulphur-crested
Cockatoos feeding in fields before Braidwood.
# A possible Little Eagle soaring
over grassland behind Barlings Beach.
# 10 Eastern Curlews and 8 Bar-tailed
Godwits at the Batemans Bay Marina.

But most interesting to me was watching
an (immature?) Eastern Whipbird foraging among dense bamboo alongside
and inside the Tiger enclosure at Mogo Zoo just one metre away.
Unfortunately the Batemans Bay Water
Gardens have almost completely dried up with a half-dead eel? flopping
about in the remaining puddle of mud.

Cheers
Marnix

 

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