Ten COG members and guests spent three hours at Callum Brae on a very
pleasant morning, and were rewarded with 45 species in all. We were
met at the gate by a pair of Gang-gangs quietly feasting on sawfly
larvae in one of the eucalypts at the entrance. We proceeded to the
gully on the left, noting the pair of Black-shouldered kites in their
usual location in the trees to left of the track, and an Australian
hobby and Nankeen kestrel in same vicinity. The gully area yielded a
range of small birds, including a flock of Diamond firetails (several
immatures), a couple of Jacky winters, two White-winged trillers, a
Western gerygone, Dusky woodswallows (again, several immatures among
them), more kestrels, many Yellow-rumped thornbills and a group of
Noisy friarbirds. At the small dam a little further along we flushed
a Black duck and a pair of Chestnut teal. A Darter and a Little pied
cormorant were checking out the large farm dam. A family of Speckled
warblers checked the group out very briefly before moving on, near the
quarry fence. Towards the end of the walk two male Scarlet robins
appeared to be having a vigorous and noisy territorial dispute in the
top of a eucalypt. A very nice morning's birding indeed. Sandra
Henderson
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