Warks Rd: Wonga Pigeon, Needletails

I drove out to Warks Rd yesterday. I attempted to drive the full length of
Warks Rd and then turned onto Old Mill Rd. Most fallen timber had been
removed but I had to turn back near the top end of Old Mill Rd because of a
fallen tree.

Highlights were a Wonga Pigeon along Warks Rd about 1.5 kms from the
Blundells Ck Rd intersection, 3 White-throated Needletails skimming over
the trees at Old Mill Rd, a Rufous Fantail by the Blundells Ck Rd/Warks Rd
intersection, and a brief glimpse of a Cicadabird.

I also got three great views of Superb Lyrebirds, 2 separate males along
Warks Rd and a female along Old Mill Rd.

Breeding activity along Warks Rd - White-eared Honeyeater feeding juvenile,
two pairs of White-naped Honeyeaters feeding 1 and 2 juveniles, and a
juvenile Eastern Yellow Robin being fed.

Cheers
Marnix




                                                                           
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This morning, in perfect conditions, I ambled along the flat part of
Wark's Road from the bottom of Blundell's Creek Road to the most
recently fallen tree at the point where the road begins uphill.
There was a lot of bird activity and a positively cool damp feel to
the place.  Highlights were a male Cicadabird lurking in the top of a
large E. viminalis , male and, subsequently, female Eastern Whipbird
and Bassian Thrush a little way up Blundell's Creek Road and later on
another on Wark's Road back towards Canberra.

WARNING:  There is a lot of timber falling at the moment.  I have
been out there several times lately and each time there have been
trees fallen across the road at some point in the Wark's/Old Mill Rd
loop.  This morning in totally calm conditions I heard one hefty
branch fall quite close by and a whole tree came down up the slope
about 100m above me.

Milburn
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Dr P.J. Milburn
Technical Specialist
ANU ACRF Biomolecular Resource Facility
John Curtin School of Medical Research
Australian National University
GPO Box 334
Canberra ACT 0200
'Phone +61 2 6125 4326
FAX      +61 2 6125 9533

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