Dear All,
just back in Canberra after 7 years living in the UK and so trying to familiarise myself again with the area around Macgregor. This morning did a Macgregor-Dunlop-Old Sewage Works/Ginnindera Creek-Parkwood circuit ending up at the very eastern end of the Parkwood Horse Paddocks around 10.30. Around the dam close to the road I found a couple of Diamond Firetails but most susrprisingly came across a small neophema-like parrot that was brilliant turquoise from head-to tail with the exception of a white belly and a white rump - where a red-rump would normaly have the red. It was associating with a female red-rump and called like a red-rump. Anybody any ideas (the only aviculture reference that I have mentions a rare blue autosomal recessive mutation of the red-rump, maybe this is it but couldn't seem to find any piccies on the web). Unfortunately I didn't have a camera with me or else I would have probably been able to get a couple of record shots. I may go back this arvo and have another look.
Also in the environs of the dam (which is linked to a second newer dam on the West Macgregor development side of the fence) were:
Rufous Songlark, 1
Brown Quail, 6 flushed from the West Macgregor side of the dams
Black-fronted Dotterel, 2
White-winged Triller, 1 female
Dusky Woodswallow, 6+a couple of begging young
Not much else on the rest of the circuit apart from a few Rainbow Bee-eaters and a couple of Horsfield's Bonze Cuckoos around the sewage works.
Regards
Pete Christian
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