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Stromlo Forest Park this year

To: 'Chris Davey' <>, 'Martin Butterfield' <>, 'Jack & Andrea Holland' <>
Subject: Stromlo Forest Park this year
From: casburnj <>
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 22:44:05 +0000

My two last sightings of White-fronted Chats were 7 birds on 6/8/14, and on 5/1/15 were 4 birds.  There were very few birds of any sort on my recent ride – but there has been increasing activity at the grounds in recent months.

Jean

 

 

From: Chris Davey [
Sent: Thursday, 25 June 2015 10:06 PM
To: 'Martin Butterfield'; 'Jack & Andrea Holland'
Cc: 'COG List'
Subject: RE: [canberrabirds] Stromlo Forest Park

 

Hi, it may be of interest that to my knowledge Chats were first recorded during a COG survey of the Arboretum on 25/9/11 when 15 were recorded and again on 20/9/14 when 5 were recorded.

 

Chris

 

From: Martin Butterfield
Sent: Thursday, 25 June 2015 2:07 PM
To: Jack & Andrea Holland
Cc: COG List
Subject: Re: [canberrabirds] Stromlo Forest Park

 

Jack

 

I have had a couple of forays to SFP in the past couple of months and found no Chats.  

 

Looking at eBird records for SFP the Chats were recorded 3 times in early January  - presumably folk getting their year-lists off to a good start - but not since then.   Another example of the value of the eBird approach!

 

Martin


 

On 25 June 2015 at 12:24, Jack & Andrea Holland <> wrote:

With all the excitement at the Arboretum, I’ve been wondering if the White-fronted Chats are still at Stromlo Forest Park.

 

A 70 minute search this morning in their usual places in the open areas around the car parks etc failed to find them (or for that matter Flame Robins or even Pipits/Skylarks) despite the excellent viewing conditions  The main activity was more than 75 Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoos with still some begging young in the reveg? between the facility and the building sites.

 

Has anyone seen the chats there lately – they could still be present but there now seems to be much more typical habitat for them.

 

Jack Holland

 

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