A very pleasant morning's ramble around the Pinnacle yielded 59 species
in all, the highlights being White-winged Trillers (2), Kestrels (3),
Brown Falcon (1), a couple of Grey Teal (a first for the Pinnacle, as
far as I know), one Diamond Firetail, Sacred Kingfisher, Speckled
Warbler, and Scarlet and Red-capped Robins (4 and 1, respectively).
John
On 28/10/12 1:50 PM, martin butterfield wrote:
I knocked off 6 sites in the Kowen area yesterday and today.
1. The Sparrow Hill site has been subject to a lot of forest
activity, either felling to leave an unvegetated area or thinning
to let light in to encourage the growth of brambles, thistles, St
Johns Wort and serrated tussock. Should be a great area for
finches in a while! 13species
2. The Geophysics site (opposite the Defence facility) produced 17
species: effectively the usual suspects.
3. It is difficult to get into the Kowen Pound site now as the road
has been closed and rather stringent fences have been put in. It
is basically a 1km walk from the Sparro Hill MTB parking area or
about 700m up the road from the Defence end. I got in eventually
and found 18 species of bush birds.
4. Blue Tiles was very quiet, but I recorded 12 species. Eastern
Yellow Robin (EYR) the highlight.
5. The Peninsula to the east of Blue Tiles generated 15 species
including another EYR, 1 Varied Sitella and a Whistling Kite
soaring overhead.
6. The final site about 2km East along the River was similar to
Mark's sites with 6 very common species the haul there.
There were a few Banded Lapwings visible as I came through Bungendore
but I suspect they were mainly sheltering fromthe cold by sitting down
in the grassy areas and thus invisible. In NSW so of no Blitz value.
Martin
On 28 October 2012 09:56, Julian Teh <
<>> wrote:
Just got back from our second of two sites, Matt and I scored
three sacred kingfishers between shepherds lookout and ginninderra
creek!!
Julian Teh
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On 28/10/2012, at 6:56 AM, "Mark Clayton" <
<>> wrote:
I hope everyone had as good a day as Barbara. I did two grassland
reserve sites in the Gungahlin area and in one reserve recorded a
total of three species flying over - myna, starling and magpie -
who were not actually using the reserve as such, and in the
second reserve scored a kestrel that initially overflew the site
but returned to circle near me. I’ll take this as using the site.
I’ll do the third grassland site this morning if it is not full
of cattle. There’s nothing like being bored out of your brain in
a totally unproductive landscape!!
Have fun blitzing!
Mark
*From:*Barbara Allan
*Sent:* Saturday, 27 October 2012 7:59 PM
*To:*
<>
*Subject:* [canberrabirds] COG's bird blitz
Well I hope everyone who went out counting birds had a glorious
day. We couldn’t fault the weather, for once. I was delighted to
come across two special species: a Spotted Quail-thrush
(Gibraltar Rocks); and 2 Bassian Thrush (Fishing Gap). Hope
tomorrow is as productive. b
--
Martin Butterfield
http://franmart.blogspot.com.au/
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