A good morning for birding at Mulligan's Flat with over 50 species
recorded. No snow, sleet or gale-force winds. Noteworthy were:
Pied Butcherbird, Mistletoebird, Sittella, Brown-headed Honeyeater,
Little Black Cormorant, White-winged Triller, Brown Falcon, Noisy
Friarbird, White-throated and Western Gerygones, oh, and five Superb
Parrots.
There were dozens of fresh 'saucers' which I presume were made by
Painted Button-quail but although I quartered out from the saucers, I
failed to sight any of the birds.
Breeders included: Buff-rumped Thornbill (dy) [these were close to the
nest with young recorded during the Woodlands Survey last Sunday - and
that nest is now abandoned], Striated Thornbill (dy), Sittella (nb),
Magpie (ny), Noisy Miner (on), Magpie-lark (on), White-winged Chough (on)
Sulphur-crested Cockatoo, Galah, Crimon Rosella, Eastern Rosella all did
a bit of (ih).
While some Common Starlings are starting to sing in trees with hollows,
I also saw a flock of 60. This flock gave itself a nasty surprise by
trying to land in a dead tree already occupied by the Brown Falcon.
Con
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