Sorry about that. We saw it first below
the cairn at Rocky Pic on Rocky Pic Road in Tallaganda Nat Park. The coords are 149 30 00 E by 35 35 35 S. We first
saw it in February in this spot and then saw several others through February in
the same general area. Haven’t seen it in March, though there are
plenty of Flame Robins and some Scarlet Robins at Tallaganda at present.
Kim and Geoff
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From: martin butterfield
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Sent: Thursday, 24 March 2011 8:40
PM
To: Geoff Larmour
Subject: Re: [canberrabirds]
Red-browed treecreepers and Rose Robin
Geoff
What I was after was a link to yourEremaea post so that the rest of us knew
where to go and look for the little bugger. It is good that the record is
in BA and eventually COG DBs but that is not much help in trying to spot the
bird NOW!
I have just tried to find it in Birdline NSW and that has no search
facility that I could find (or at least not one that returned a result for a
search on 'pink'). So can you give lat/longs and/or whih road you were on
when you saw it.
Martin
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at
7:18 PM, Geoff Larmour <>
wrote:
Hi
Martin
Have
taken your advice and entered our Pink Robin to BA (after having battled with
the software on the BA Atlas site).
Thanks
Kim and
Geoff
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From: martin butterfield [
Sent:
Thursday, 24 March 2011 3:49 PM
To: Geoff Larmour
Cc: COG List; Alastair Smith
Subject: Re: [canberrabirds]
Red-browed treecreepers and Rose Robin
Geoff
Good to see you posting to the COG Chatline.
Unfortunately the owner of Eremaea insists that sightings outside the political
boundaries of the ACT are reported to the NSW Birdline most of which is
irrelevant to Canberra birders. I will not bore you further with my views
on the topic. However it would be good if you could circulate a link to
your Eremaea post(s) about the Pink Robin, particularly if they fall within the
COG Area of Interest.
Martin
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at
1:17 PM, Geoff Larmour <> wrote:
Hello
Martin
We
haven’t contributed to the list before, having only recently subscribed -
though we read the postings most days. We visit the eastern part of
Tallanganda State Forest and National Park regularly (our lists are up on
Eremaea for those interested). Your posting about Rose Robin and
Red-browed Treecreeper makes us realise we have been remiss in not visiting the
western part of Tallaganda !
It would
be great to have the list’s thoughts on a Robin species we have been
seeing regularly this summer in the eastern part of Tallaganda. We have
tentatively identified it as immature Pink Robin. Have you or others seen
Pink Robins at Tallanganda or elsewhere in the region? There is one
recent record on Eremaea for Pink Robin at Monga National Park, which is not
very far from Tallanganda as the crow (or robin) flies, but the Atlas does not
list Pink Robin for this region over its breeding season. The bird we
have been seeing is a “brown” bird with tan wing bars (definitely
not buff or white bars). We have seen it on Rocky Pic Road regularly
– though not in the past few weeks. It feeds from the ground and is
consistently above 1000 metres elevation. For info, we also regularly see
Scarlet and Flame Robins at Tallaganda. The Flame Robin brown birds have
buff or creamy wingbars – and so look rather different to our mystery
bird. BTW, the Flame Robins are out in force at present – including
three coloured males and half a dozen brown birds queueing up to bathe in a
tiny puddle on Rocky Pic Road yesterday afternoon. Very lovely.
Kim and
Geoff Larmour
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From: martin butterfield [
Sent: Wednesday, 23 March 2011
3:15 PM
To: COG List
Subject: [canberrabirds]
Red-browed treecreepers and Rose Robin
While out in Lowden
Forest Park on a planning foray for an outing during the BA Campout Chris Davey
and I each saw 2 Red-browed tree-creepers and I am confident they were
different birds. I also logged a Rose Robin.
Martin
