Winterbirds outing

["Lia Battisson" <>]

Me too!

 

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From: Wendy Whitham [
Sent: Sunday, 18 July 2010 6:29 PM
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Subject: Re: [canberrabirds] Winterbirds outing

 

Thanks to Jack and Jenny for another great winter birds outing! 

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Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2010 6:03 PM

Subject: Re: [canberrabirds] Winterbirds week 6

 

Geoffrey, some relevant birds from the COG Winterbirds bus trip today.

 

First up one female Rufous Whistler at the main gate at Mulligan's Flat this morning.  Later a Mistletoebird was heard there.

 

Fan-tailed Cuckoo heard at the Botanic Gardens.

 

Maximum of eight Dusky Woodswallow circling very high (possibly as high as 500 m) over Cooleman Ridge this afternoon just before 3 pm.  Initially seen by the pair of very sharp eyes of one of our visitors.  This is another piece in the puzzle of winter sightings here, and I now suspect they spend the day circling and feeding up there (it beggars believe there are insects there that high in winter) and then drop down close to sunset to roost where ever they happen to be. This is the time I have been observing them, when they are close enough to hear them call and see with the naked eye as they descend.  Andrea saw two high in a dead tree later, round 4:30 pm.

 

And finally the BFCS, didn't see any all day until we got to the end of Kathner St, Chapman round 3 pm, and as we left 30 minutes later there were an estimated 6 flying round the bus, landing on perches in peoples gardens etc, very very conspicuous.

 

Saw most of the species that spend the winter here rather than in the mountains, but not the subject of your survey.

 

Jack Holland

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Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2010 10:45 AM

Subject: [canberrabirds] Winterbirds week 6

 

Below is summary for week 6.  On 13/7 Dan Mantle picked up 10 BFCS at Narrabundah Hill.  Yesterday 3 orioles at different locations.  I expect deferred reports of numbers of DWS in cell H11.

Late reports welcome (with date).   Please send reports of any of the 10 species to me (or to chatline, but not with below table).  There are 2 weeks remaining in this exercise, after which a full report will be circulated.

Number birds / number locations,  weekends,  rain

Days:  July	11	12	13	14	15	16	17
F-t Cuckoo	2/2		1/1
B-f Cuckoo-shrike	4/2	1/1	11/2	2/2	3/3	4/2	9/5
A Reed-Warbler		1/1
Ruf Whistler
Ruf Songlark
W Gerygone		1/1
W-t Gerygone
N Friarbird					2/1
O-b Oriole	1/1		1/1				3/3
D Woodswallow		23/2					1/1