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Date: 28 November 2011 8:47:16 PM AEDT
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Thanks for posting these summaries Alastair, very useful for my Gang-gang column.
Did I miss the summary for the week ending 20 Nov (I have those for the previous two weeks).
My main interest is any sightings of the Horsfield’s Bushlark, and any sightings of the Brown Songlark other than Ian Fraser’s in October?
Many thanks
Jack Holland
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Birdline ACT
Published sightings for the week ending 27 Nov 2011.
Sun 27 Nov Freckled Duck, Yellow-billed Spoonbill Kelly's Swamp & Jerrabomberra Wetland, Fyshwick
Single Freckled Duck remains. Also an extraordinary afternoon/evening for heron species on Kellys Swamp with 1 White-necked Heron, 1 Great Egret, 3 Intermediate Egret, 9 Cattle Egret at least 13 Nankeen Night-Heron (Adults and juveniles). The cacophony of frog calls was probably the reason for this congregation.The spectacle concluded with a fly past by 5 Yellow-billed Spoonbills.
Alastair Smith
Pink-eared Duck, Buff-banded Rail, Baillon's Crake Fyshwick Sewage Treatment Plant
9 Pink-eared Duck pond 1 Buff-banded Rail and 3 Baillon's Crake pond 7.
Alastair Smith
Freckled Duck, Pink-eared Duck Kelly's Swamp & Jerrabomberra Wetland, Fyshwick
The lone Freckled Duck still present. 1 Pink-eared Duck with Grey Teal.
Frank Antram
Pink-eared Duck Fyshwick Sewage Treatment Plant
9 Pink-eared Ducks on Pond 1 [plus 1 more over on Kellys Swamp]
Frank Antram
Sat 26 Nov Freckled Duck Kelly's Swamp & Jerrabomberra Wetland, Fyshwick
Single Freckled Duck still present on main (now flooded) swamp.
Alastair Smith
Baillon's Crake, Australian Spotted Crake, Red-kneed Dotterel Fyshwick Sewage Treatment Plant
On a mud-less Pond 5, 2 Red-kneed Dotterel and on Pond 7 one each of Australian Spotted Crake and Baillon's Crake.
Alastair Smith
Black Shouldered Kite Fyshwick Sewerage works
Adult flying over back of the sewerage ponds/ paddocks @ 18.45
Rik Morley
Fri 25 Nov Freckled Duck, Cattle Egret, Red-kneed Dotterel Kelly's Swamp & Jerrabomberra Wetland, Fyshwick
1 Freckled Duck on the swamp as were 2 Red-kneed Dotterel A minimum of 30 Cattle Egret on the northern paddocks.
Alastair Smith
Intermediate Egret Coranderrk Street/Parkes Way Intersection
At 12:15 today an Intermediate Egret was standing on a patch of water lilies in the pond at the Coranderrk Street/Parkes Way Intersection.
PJ Milburn
Thu 24 Nov Cattle Egret Jerrabombera Wetlands
A flock of 37 Cattle Egrets were seen over the cattle paddocks at lunchtime today.
PJ Milburn
Black Falcon Kelly's Swamp/Fyshwick STW
At 14:03, a male Black Falcon flew in from Kingston Paddocks well above tree top height and circled firstly over Kelly's Swamp and then over the Fyshwick STW.
PJ Milburn
Royal Spoonbill, Red-kneed Dotterel, Latham's Snipe Jerrabomberra Wetlands
One Royal Spoonbill on Kellys Swamp. Two Red-kneed Dotterels and five Latham's Snipe on mudflats opposite Fullica hide.
Scott Ryan
Tue 22 Nov Buff-banded Rail Lake Ginninderra near college
It was fossicking around the edge of the lake.
Vivien Pinder
Black-shouldered Kite Kambah ACT
Late this afternoon I observed two juvenile BSK near the interection of Mt Vernon and Kambah Pool Roads.
Michael Kingsford
Red-kneed Dotterel Jerrabomberra wetlands
2 birds on the small mud flats on Jerrabomberra creek opposite the Fulica hide
Roger Williams
Mon 21 Nov White-winged Triller Kama reserve
A pair of White-winged Trillers (male&female) feeding in one of the larger eucalypts in the reserve
Roger Williams
Red-capped Robin Mulligans Flat, ACT
Single Red-capped Robin (female) seen briefly in woodland amongst mixed flock of thornbills and other small birds. (Location: COG Grid LII, or approx: Lat 35°10'14.91"S, and Long 149° 9'17.63"E - from Google Earth). Flock observed for about a minute before they moved on.
Robin Hide
Azure Kingfisher Kellys Swamp
Azure KF seen at 4pm today on the island to the left of Fulica hide - sitting very quietly for 20 minutes just above a small patch of water lilies.
Sue Lashko
Sun 20 Nov Peregrine Falcon Paddock south of Aranda Bushland
A pair at a large stick nest in tall gum. They both chased off cockies so there may be chicks.
Rick Kuhn and Mary Gorman
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