Black Honeyeater - Ginninderra Creek NOT, Peregrine yes.

[Julian Robinson <>]

Went looking for the BH but no luck, as I understand is the story with
anyone looking after yesterday morning.  I met Rod there and we were
half expecting to see a Little Eagle (along with the many other birds at
this hotspot), but instead on the way out came across this Peregrine
clutching what we thought was a Crested Pigeon.

 http://www.flickr.com/photos/ozjulian/4054504643/ 

Cheers
Julian

At 08:50 AM 27/10/2009, Steve Holliday wrote:

Nice one Peter, this is a great find, maybe the 3^rd ACT record? Alastair Smith told me he had found the bird in the same place yesterday, so I popped out early this am to see if I could find it. I saw it within minutes of getting to the creek. Was actively feeding at Paterson?s Curse flowers, sometimes from a perch on a convenient piece of fence wire, but mostly by hovering. I watched it for 10 minutes or more as it fed on both sides of the creek.
 
I accessed the site from Cannan Crescent, MacGregor.  Go right at the roundabout (where it says road closed) and park at the locked gate. Jump the gate and walk up the road, over another locked gate, past the Old Sewage Works, then straight down  towards the creek. Look in the masses of Paterson?s Curse flowers along the banks of the creek.
 
On the way home stopped at Lake Ginninderra at the McDermott Place carpark ? there was a Black-tailed Native-hen wandering around on the nearby beach with 20 or so Coots and Wood Ducks.
 
cheers
Steve
 
From: Peter Christian
Sent: Sunday, 25 October 2009 3:26 PM
To: Canberra Birds
Subject: [canberrabirds] Black Honeyeater - Ginninderra Creek
 
Dear All,
 
A male Black Honeyeater this morning feeding on Patterson's Curse along Ginninderra creek below the old Macgregor sewage works - coming from the Dunlop end between the second chimney and where the creek bends sharply to the south (left) it was on the far bank. Watched through the scope for about 15 minutes all up and was working slowly upstream when I last saw it.
 
Regards
 
Peter Christian
 
PS White-browed Woodswallows and Masked's also in the area and 2 Whiskered Terns at West Belco Pond yesterday morning.

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