Oooo - I saw a grey currawong on Friday on Bruce Ridge.
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From: Con Boekel
Sent: Sunday, 25 October 2015 10:08 PM
To: canberrabirds chatline
Subject: Blitzing Black Mountain
Blitzing Black Mountain was a mournful affair today. Tree deaths combine with
burned leaf litter layer in a lot of the Reserve. Brown-headed Honeyeaters and
Varied Sittellas appear to have abandoned the northern sections of BMNR in the
past year or two, along with Little Eagles, Dollarbirds and Hobbies, all of
which bred there in recent seasons. It is a while since I recorded a Grey
Currawong - another ground feeder that might be feeling the control burn pinch.
Painted Buttonquail appear to have been driven out by the controlled burning
program which destroys their food source. It is a couple of years since I last
saw any platelets in BMNR. (All the locations in which I recorded platelets
have been controlled burned). A single pair of Speckled Warblers is hanging on.
White-winged Chough, another ground feeder, is also much reduced in numbers. I
recorded no Common Bronzewings - another ground feeder. I trust the western and
southern ends of BMNR are faring a bit better. The only honeyeater family bird
I recorded was a single Red Wattlebird.
Of the migrants: Noisy Friarbirds were common; a single Fantailed Cuckoo; a
couple of pairs of Olive-backed Orioles, several pairs of Black-faced
Cuckoo-shrike, a single Leaden Flycatcher, a single Mistletoebird and a single
Sacred Kingfisher. None of the remaining migrants.
Hunted high and low for a whistler but could not find one.
Buffies, Crimsons and Superb Fairy-wrens were common.
Anyway, blitzed it. The odd record out today was a single Restless Flycatcher -
the first I have seen in BMNR in 30 years.
regards
Con
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