A large group of 29 people attended The Pinnacle walk on Sunday the 25th
May, with over half being from COG and the rest being from Field
Naturalists, FOG and other friends. We split into two groups, with
Rosemary Blemings taking the beginners and John Brannan and myself
taking the more experienced birdos.
A quick introduction to the local trees (mainly yellowbox, Blakely's
redgum and applebox) also yielded a large mixed feeding flock (MFF).
This flock enabled us to identify the features of spotted pardalotes, a
male and female scarlet robin and a small flock of white naped
honeyeaters, while Rosemary Bell wrote down our ticks.
Good views from The Pinnacle itself provided a useful setting for
discussing the history and management of this site, and how this fits
within the broader Molonglo valley.
Heading towards the more native 'red stringybark forest' we saw a
rainbow lorikeet (an ACT tick for some birders), another male scarlet
robin and a black-faced cuckoo shrike. In the forest were white throated
treecreepers and more scarlet robins and spotted pardalotes very close,
plus some interesting plants included cauliflower bushes, paper daisies
and everlasting daisies which had just finished seeding, and matt-rushes
(Lomandra). Plus 'hazard reduction' burning.
Moving back into tree plantings we finally saw speckled warblers, 2
white eared honeyeaters, white naped honeyeater, a striated thornbill
and other sbbs (and Roger Curnow didn't have his camera- now that is a
tick!).
I think John Cummings was first to see a wedge-tailed eagle which was
being harassed by magpies, ravens and magpie-larks. Then John Brannan
showed us a chough nest and we bumped into a group of choughs, plus more
white eared honeyeaters and a grey shrike-thrush.
A number of people hadn't been to The Pinnacle and hopefully this
introduction will encourage them to return. Thanks to Rosemary Blemings
for organising the walk, John Brannan and Barbara Allan for helping out,
and all the other input on the day.
We can send a full bird list if you would like it (by Rosemary Bell).
Of course, when walking home I saw a sparrowhawk and a grey currawong
that we must have only just missed on the walk.
Benj Whitworth
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