bee eaters, dollarbird, wwt, r songlark,fan tailed cuckoo, BOP. [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

["Whitworth, Benjamin - BRS" <>]

I had a look at some extra sites for the COG Bird Blitz. Some interesting obs were (I know I forgotten some good obs):

 

Saturday

Tugg Pines- Leaden flycatcher male, pair of scarlet robins, yellow robin, yellow tailed black cockatoo, pair rufous whistlers.

 

Melrose TSR- Little eagle, 3 yellow robins, 2 rainbow bee eaters, an echidna!, redbrow nest building, 2 goldfinches, scarlet robin male. BFCS

 

Angle crossing Rd- corner with Monaro. White winged triller.

 

Angle crossing- Fan tailed cuckoo, rainbow bee eater.

 

Sunday

Queanbeyan SP- Four Birds of prey! -whistling kite, Black Shouldered kite, Peregrine falcon (which flew off to Queanbeyan hills), Brown goshawk. Rainbow bee eater, dollarbird, sacred kingfisher, kookaburra, noisy friarbird, 157 coots. I found a pipit nest with 3 cute/ugly chicks! Not much duck diversity though.

 

Scrivener dam- ~18 swallows, 2 pairs breeding including nesting and dy, 6 goldfinches, YR thornbill carrying nesting material and mating. Swan with a few chicks.

 

Oakey Hill- 5 rufous songlarks, 2 white winged trillers, 8 dusky woodswallows (1 copulation), double bars (on), Horsfield’s B cuckoo, western gerygone.

 

 

Not a blitz site- but Sunday from 2-4pm- Dunlop- 2 red backed kingfishers (twitch), hooded robin male, ~20 fairy martins flying into/out of nests, 3 rainbow bee eaters, dollarbird, horsfield’s B cuckoo, pallid cuckoo. For a mediocre looking site the birds are amazing.

 

Benj Whitworth

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