Re: White-fronted Chats and black-shouldered kites

[Julian Robinson <>]

Well I've been for my fifth visit and never laid eyes on a white-fronted
chat.  All I see is riveting rarities like black-fronted magpies,
and  black-fronted currawongs, and  black-fronted magpie-larks and
white-fronted masked lapwings ...but, happily, yesterday at 11 then 12:30
three white-fronted black-shouldered kites.   A bit of bad
family manners was displayed as well as lots of surveillance but not much
marauding, pillaging or eating...  This behaviour (photo below) must
be well known since it looks exactly like Roger Curnow's photo on the COG
photo gallery.  These birds were still hanging around the east
stromlo works area when I left about 3pm.

I'll keep looking for white fronted chats, any more reports welcomed by
me.

Julian


At 06:56 PM 6/08/06, Frank Antram wrote:
> .and still present at around
> 1.30-2.30pm today (Sunday, 6 Aug.)
>
> Regards
> Frank
>
> ________________________________________
> From: David Rosalky
>  
> Sent: Sunday, 6 August 2006 2:02 PM
> To: Bird List
> Subject: White-fronted Chats
>
> The pair of WFCs was active between 3pm and 4pm this afternoon
> (Saturday).
> Their position was near the inrersection of Uriarra and Coppins Xing
> roads.
> As you drive from Canberra, they were on and near the fence on the
> right
> (north) about 100m before the Coppins Xing turnoff.  It is a grassy
> paddock
> containing a creek with several water holes or boggy grass patches. 
> There
> is also a dam about half full.  So, there are patches of normal
> terrain for
> WFCs, although I did not see either bird near the wet patches in the
> period
> I was there.  They were mainly on the fence or on the ground near
> the fence
> and flew several times into the nearby eucalypts.
>  
> David Rosalky
>
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