Bluetts again

[John Leonard <>]

Ok, back home now.

It's been pointed out that I was nowhere near Bluetts Pines, but in the scrub on the south side of the road (in the western end of Stromlo Forest park) (The URL below is the actual spot). However, I did strike oil.

I flushed the BQ from about 20 feet away, it was facing me so when it I took of vertically I could see its small size and the fact that it was completely white, or off-white underneath. This makes it a female Little Buttonquail.

In the scrub around were a MFF including SFW, Red-browed Firetail and Brown, Striated and Yellow Thornbill. This is that first time I have see Yellow Thornbill in a MFF, however, they could have been the resident birds that got caught up in the movement of MFF. Likewise there was a pair of Scarlet Robins in attendance.

cheers

John L

On 12 May 2012 12:47, John Leonard <> wrote:

And at 11.45 I flushed a female Little Buttonquail on that hillside. 

According to the pin I put down in Maps on my IpHone this was at 35.303079 149.005521. Does anyone know how to covert these decimal coordinates to minutes and seconds? If you put this into your browser you'll get the spot anyway.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&q=-35.303079,149.005521%20%28Bq%29

Will write a full report tonight.

John Leonard

On 12 May 2012 10:54, Marnix Zwankhuizen <> wrote:

Single Chestnut-rumped Heathwren seen along Blackys Trail at 10:30 this morning. Bird was among large mixed feeding flock near the button-quail site shown on Geoffrey's map.

Cheers
Marnix

On 10/05/2012, at 7:42 PM, Con Boekel <> wrote:

I seem to recall that there are areas of low heath thereabouts.

On 10/05/2012 7:21 PM, Geoffrey Dabb wrote:

Yes Peter  -  that hill is the area in question, where the slope got too step for pine planting, presumably. It is sandwiched between the (former) plantings to the east and open grazing land to the west.   There are several euc species in there.   As to a name,  it is ‘Bluett’s Pines’ for orienteering purposes.  The gate access is maybe 60m east of the gate to what is now a horse trail area on the south side, running up to Mt Stromlo.  In that southern area there are a lot of gullies that were left with native veg that is re-asserting itself now the pines have gone. 

 

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From: Peter Ormay [
Sent: Thursday, 10 May 2012 6:40 PM
To: Geoffrey Dabb;
Subject: Re: [canberrabirds] Bluetts again

 

Thanks for the hylac report - I'll have to go and see if I can find them. West of the regen area the hill is covered with excellent dry sclerophyll forest. Do you know what that's called (or anyone else)?

Peter