I went bushwalking yesterday at The Pinnacle. Clear, a bit windy, heaps of birds.
I surveyed 3 sites. 20 minute 2 ha each.
Interesting obs were-
Towards summit: 1 white eared honeyeater, male and imm male scarlet robin, BF cuckoo shrike.
Stringybark F: 3 speckled warblers foraging together- 2 males & 1 female, 1 scarlet robin, >15 fairy wrens, WT Treec, 5 striated thornbills, other thornbills.
Backtrack: 19 species- a flock of 70 silvereyes flying West (they were in dribs and drabs so I could count them), 4 YFH, one Noisy friarbird (overwinterer???), 4 RW, 12 CP, 25 currawongs (calling), 2 kookas, 2 rainbow lorikeets, 5 weebills.
Grey fantails, spotted pardalotes and rosellas were numerous at all sites.
It was surprising how different the bird species were from grassland & regrowth, to mature stringybarks, to wet gardens/ suburbia.
Benj Whitworth
