Warks road 071228

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Myself, sue Lasjko and barabara Allan made a trek to Warks Road this morning.  Despite the brief assisting presence of Dabb pere et fille we were unable to meet the primary objective of Cicadabird to a level that would permit a tick. 

 

However there were plenty of goodies around including:

• Satin flycatchers everywhere: I wrote down 15 birds but there were probably more.  We saw ON, DY and CF.
• Golden whistler DY
• White-naped Honeyeater in very large numbers.  I wrote down 50, but this is probably very conservative.  We recorded NB (about 3m in front of our faces)and DY.
• Satin Bowerbird at a couple of spots up the creek, includng a good view of ON fairly high in a decrepid eucalypt.
• Southern Boobook sitting in  eucalypt looking at us looking at it;
• Rufous fantail flitting around as though it had a nest but we couldn't find it.

A few things were surprisingly missing in the avian department (eg sacred kingfisher; white-plumed honeyeater), but very pleasingly absent was the lower simian, Bogan trailbikerii.

 

Martin