Perhaps I am a little slow with reporting: a male Leaden Flycatcher at Campbell Park last evening 4 October.
I went for an evening walk (about 4:15pm – exploiting daylight saving) and had a ball. Birds everywhere. In a spot near the horse-gate where a little creek runs, I saw in one spot:
· Many Yellow-rumped Thornbills
· A family of Buff-rumped Thornbills feeding dependent young
· A Speckled Warbler
· A pair of Brown-headed Honeyeaters
· A Jacky Winter
· A pair of White-throated Gerygones
· A Leaden Flycatcher
· A Rufous Whistler
· A Shining Bronze-cuckoo.
Other species nearby:
· Weebills
· Brown Thornbills
· Superb Fairy-wrens
· Spotted Pardalotes
· Striated Pardalotes
· Red Wattlebirds
· Noisy Friarbirds
· Noisy Miners
· Common Starling (carrying nesting material)
· Black-faced Cuckoo-shrikes
· Rufous Whistlers (male as well as above female)
· Golden Whistler (immature)
· Grey Shrike-thrush
· White-winged Choughs (and an unoccupied and unattended WWC nest with one bird hanging around it)
· Australian Ravens
· Magpies
· Pied Currawongs
· Welcome Swallows
· Galahs
· King Parrots
· Crimson Rosellas
· Eastern Rosellas
· Laughing Kookaburras
· Common Bronzewing
· Another Shining Bronze-cuckoo (being intensively mobbed by Superb Fairywrens, Weebills and Brown Thornbills)
· Brown Goshawks (2)
· A Little Eagle (my guess of a distant high-up raptor over Mt Ainslie)
David Rosalky
From: martin butterfield [
Sent: Tuesday, 5 October 2010 6:21 PM
To: COG List
Subject: [canberrabirds] Leaden Flycatcher
As far as I can determine no-one has reported a leaden flycatcher so far this season. One was calling loudly in Tinkers Creek TSR (3.5 along Mtn Creek Rd from the intersection with Fairlight Road) this afternoon.
There were a lot of birds and a massive amount of interesting flowers at Cavan TSR about 16km further along MCR.
Martin
