30 August 2010 – Narrabundah Hill (Duffy)
9am to 1pm – a great day – 27 species observed
Best of all at the end of the morning – two tawny frogmouths
– one sitting asleep on a nest high in a gum tree, the other keeping
watch from a nearby gum. – and 1 Olive-backed Oriole.
In order of appearance:
3 Crimson Rosellas
1 Olive-backed Oriole (high in a distant tree, orange bill, heavily
black speckled cream underparts – size of a RWB)
2 Common Miner (nesting)
2 Redwattle Birds
2 Black-faced Cuckoo Shrikes (& more later)
Magpie Larks
Wedge-tailed Eagle – chased by 2 Ravens
Australian Ravens
Australian Magpies
Diamond Firetails
2 Eastern Rosellas
Galahs
White-eared Honeyeater
Buff-rumped Thornbills
Red-browed Firetail
2 Grey Fantails (more later)
Yellow-rumped Thornbills
38 Common Starlings in the same tree
2 Australian Kestrels – mating (more birds seen later)
2 Laughing Kookaburra
Yellow Thornbill
Striated Pardalote
Double-barred Finch
8 + Dusky Woodswallows
2 Tawny Frogmouths (one on nest)
Sulphur-crested Cockatoos (mating)
Heard but not seen – one ringing song of a Butcherbird
Lastly, a small feeding flock consisting mainly of Double-barred
Finches, Superb Wrens, Red-browed Firetails.
