Of interest also is the sighting of Crested Shrike Tits in Campbell
Park, I have never seen them there
Yarden
-----Original Message-----
From: Alastair Smith
Sent: Wednesday, 13 June 2007 7:59 PM
To:
Subject: Black-chinned Honeyeaters
Further searching of the birding-aus archive has produced the report (my
2002/2003 is in fact 2005)
To: "birding-aus" <>
Subject: Trip Report - Canberra 10-15 July 2005
From: "Tom and Mandy Wilson" <>
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 03:20:50 +1000
Hi
I visited Canberra from 10-15 July for a short family holiday. As well
as a few family trips out into the bush, I managed a couple of trips out
on my own to venues advised in response to my RFI a couple of weeks back
(Thanks to Alastair Smith & Graham Turner for the hints of spots to
visit).
Highlights for me were:
- Little Eagle "surfing" the gale above Mt Ainslie on Sunday 10 July
- a very confiding Scarlet Robin at Tidbinbilla NR on 11 July - if I'd
had my camera out (instead of herding my two kids away from the edge of
a dam) I reckon he'd have come and perched on the lens!
- good selection of honeyeaters around the waterbird area at
Tidbinbilla, including Black Chinned, White Eared, and possible Fuscous
(almost too non-descript to be anything else)
- watching a dispute between 3 Brown Falcons at Adaminaby on 12 July
whilst on our way to the Mt Selwyn resort to see the snow
- a big flock of Hoary Headed Grebe on L Burley Griffin on 13 July doing
formation swimming
- good selection of ducks at Jerrabomberra Wetlands and Fyshwick STW on
13 July, including 2 Blue Billed Duck, 2 Freckled Duck, lots of Pink
Eared Duck and 1 Australasian Shoveler, plus the more common species and
lots of grebes and
- Gang-gangs and a Flame Robin and a Scarlet Robin in the Aust National
Botanic Gardens on 14 July
- lots of good woodland birds at Campbell Park on 14 July, including
more Scarlet Robins, a Grey Currawong doing an impression of a Varied
Sittella, lots of Weebills and Varied Sittellas, 2 friendly Speckled
Warblers, a small party of Crested Shrike Tits and a Common Bronzewing
(that I nearly stepped on and then took off with a huge clatter, giving
me a huge scare)
We drove home a long way to Sydney via Boorowa & Cowra, hoping to find
Superb Parrots - it was a bit late in the season and they would probably
have mostly gone north, but I was hoping. The weather didn't help - any
Superb Parrot worth it's salt would have been safely tucked away in a
tree hollow away from the driving showers and the cold SW wind! - and
there were lots of Red Rumpeds trying to confuse me as well. I got one
brief look at 3 bigger, long tailed birds but that as it, and they were
gone into a thicker patch of trees before I could really get a bead on
them - next time I'll go in the spring/summer when the weather's better!
One thing I noticed coming back was the large number of Kestrels and
Black Shouldered Kites hovering over the road sides - I reckon I was
seeing one or the other about every 3 or 4 minutes in the stretch
Boorowa-Cowra-Bathurst-Lithgow. I wonder if some of there were drought
refugees from further west?
Cheers
Tom Wilson
-----Original Message-----
From: Alastair Smith
Sent: Wednesday, 13 June 2007 7:45 PM
To: 'Barbara Allan'; 'Geoffrey Dabb'
Cc:
Subject: Black-chinned Honeyeaters
Interestingly, there has been a prior report of black-chinned
honeyeater.
>From memory it was allegedly seen at Tidbinbilla in about 2002/2003 and
>was
reported on Birding-aus. I followed this up with the observer at the
time and informed him this would be the first ever record for the ACT,
so a. was he sure? and b. if sure he should follow this up with a UBR.
Obviously the record did not make it to the database and no UBR was
submitted.
Despite searching the Birding-aus archives I cannot find the posting.
Cheers
Alastair
-----Original Message-----
From: Barbara Allan
Sent: Wednesday, 13 June 2007 4:53 PM
To: 'Geoffrey Dabb'
Cc:
Subject: Black-chinned Honeyeaters
There are no records, endorsed or otherwise, of the Black-chinned
Honeyeater amongst COG's Rarities Panel collections. b
-----Original Message-----
From: Geoffrey Dabb
Sent: Wednesday, 13 June 2007 9:08 AM
To:
Subject: Black-chinned Honeyeaters
Is this the first record of BC Honeyeaters for the ACT? They are not on
the list, or mentioned in Steve Wilson's book.
(Anyone looking for them today should beware of midweek orienteers,
although you never know what THEY might flush.) g
-----Original Message-----
From: Milburns
Sent: Tuesday, 12 June 2007 9:46 PM
To:
Subject: Winter at Campbell Park
I was in the gully at the northern end of Campbell park in the late
afternoon (about 16:20) watching a mixed feeding flock in the last
rays of sunshine. A flock of Honeyeaters dropped out of the sky and
to my amazement each of the 6 or 7 birds that I had clear views of
were Black-chinned Honeyeaters. As the flock departed noisily to the
south east I counted 14 individuals, all apparently the same species.
They behaved essentially as Yellow-faced Honeyeaters do when they are
travelling so I moved as quickly as I could along the edge of
Campbell Park thinking that they would be reluctant to head across
the paddocks. There was no sign of them before dusk however.
Milburn
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The Milburns
8 Miller Street
O'Connor
ACT 2602
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