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Bruce
Here is my older list of sites for Diamond firetails
for Canberra (see below)
The most reliable site at the moment appears to be
West of MacGregor (or close to there: at Jarramlee- end
of Ginninderra Dr)
on Googlemaps seach for: MacGregor
Canberra
Walk West from the end of Cannan cresent along a dirt
Rd to an old sewerage works (~500m). They are along this
Rd.
An alternative is Coppins Crossing, walk West along the
North side of the river (Molonglo River).
Other sites where large numbers of Diamond firetails
have been seen recently (although not by me) are along the Monaro Highway,
search for Williamsdale Rd or Kelly's Rd on Google maps. This is longer to
get to.
Other sites are listed below.
COG, if I made any mistakes please change
them.
Benj Whitworth
spots for diamond firetails
I know I had about 25 sites .
Often
West
MacGregor
Jaramlee- Dunlop grassland (end of Ginninderra
Dr)
Uriarra Forests settlement
Bibaringa
Tharwa sandwash
Namadgi visitors centre
Callum Brae nature
reserve (Mugga)
sometimes
Newline woodland
(S of airport)
Narrabunda Hill Shepherds lookout
Uriarra crossing- NW along moutain creek road ~1km on
hill
Mulligans
Flat- SE
(NR)
Yankee hat carpark??? (Namadgi
NR)
Ororal entrance
(Namadgi NR)
Greetings all: On the recent weekend, I
saw one DFT with Southern Whiteface in this area, near the carpark and track
leading to Shepherd's Lookout, just before you go down the road to the treatment
works. It has been good to see the re-surgence of this species in various
spots around Canberra in the last year or so, after a long period of very few
records.
May I encourage all observers of this species to
put in a data sheet to COG. One reason is that we have very few
records of this species at our 14 woodland monitoring locations, not enough
to get any meaningful trends from the data analysed. Several years ago,
COG did a nomination to have this species listed as a threatened species
under the ACTs Nature Conservation Act - this was unsuccessful, partly
because we did not have convincing enough (local) data of a sufficient
decline. DFTs are listed in NSW, but the bar here in Canberra is
higher! There may come a time when we will need to consider another
shot at a listing - and all these records will be valuable.
cheers
Jenny
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