Martin’s email on his trip around the “Molonglo
Flood Plain” (otherwise known as the Hoskinstown Plain) prompted me to lodge
a brief report on a trip Rhonda and I undertook on Wednesday last which took in
Hoskinstown, Forbes Creek and the Tallaganda
Forest. We recorded 40
species for the day with the highlights being Superb Lyrebird (one crossing Lowden
Rd and one heard near Main Range Rd); a female Satin Bowerbird at Forbes Creek;
a mixed flock of Brown-headed, White-naped and White-eared Honeyeaters also at
Forbes Creek; Crested Shrike-tit, Olive Whistler and Golden Whistler in the
same tree on Main Range Rd; and Diamond Firetails on Forbes Creek Rd.
Lindsay Hansch
