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On 29 November Nick Nichols and I carried out the survey
on the eastern lower slopes of Mt Ainslie. Weather conditions were overcast and
relatively cool. At 7 out of the 9 sites the Blakelyi's Red Gums (from saplings
to mature trees) were under heavy stress and often quite bare, but even
some mature Yellow Box trees were similarly affected. We noted 31 species at
sites with only an additional 6 species between sites. The most widespread
species (recorded at 6 sites) was the Weebill. Grey Fantail, Rufous Whistler,
Super Fairy-wren, Noisy Miner, Striated Pardalote and Crimson Rosella were
each recorded at 5 sites. There were only a few more notable species:
1 Shining Bronze Cuckoo, 1 Sacred Kingfisher, 1 pair of Speckled
Warblers, just 1 Western Gerygone (but several White-throated Gerygones),
Sitellas building a nest near the horse gate (it may have been a replacement
nest of the one that Jack Holland's group observed at the nest workshop?), 6
singing White-winged Trillers for the whole area, 1 Jacky Winter, 2x
Olive-backed Oriole and 1x Brown-headed Honeyeater. No sign of any woodswallows,
also no Dollarbird.
Michael Lenz
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