canberrabirds

Parkwood Road Birds

To: 'COG-L' <>
Subject: Parkwood Road Birds
From: Steve Read <>
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2019 23:59:20 +0000

Another good morning at Parkwood Road, NSW, with a very congenial group of birders, produced both harriers: one Swamp Harrier (adult) and one Spotted Harrier (whether immature or adult I won’t venture). The harriers interacted a few times before flying off separately. So I need to amend my chat-line post from Saturday (below) because (as others have also noted) both species of harriers are present there.

 

Also several Wedge-tailed Eagle, a Hobby chasing and diving on a Willie Wagtail around and among the early-arrived birders, plus Kestrel, Brown Falcon and Black-shouldered Kite, which totalled seven raptors. And of course many songlarks, skylarks, bushlarks and pipits.

 

Steve

 

From: Steve Read <>
Sent: Saturday, 26 January 2019 12:17 PM
To: 'COG-L' <>
Subject: RE: [canberrabirds] Parkwood Road Birds

 

Lach and I saw two harriers in flight above the ACT-NSW border fence at Parkwood Road early this morning. Clearly harriers by size , flight pattern and silhouette against the dawn sky; presumed to be Spotted by location and recent records.

 

Steve

 

From: Philip Veerman <>
Sent: Thursday, 24 January 2019 4:54 PM
To: 'David Rees' <>;
Cc: 'COG-L' <>
Subject: RE: [canberrabirds] Parkwood Road Birds

 

Some comments: the spotted harrier surely is the same one (?) as before, clearly shows that the spots extend up to the wrist (often wrongly called the shoulder), whereas on Swamp Harriers this is fairly uniform. Although in this case we don’t need that feature to identify it. Brown Songlarks appear to perch high on their legs, whereas Bushlarks appear to perch low on their legs.

 

From: David Rees
Sent: Thursday, 24 January, 2019 3:07 PM
To:
Cc: COG-L
Subject: Re: [canberrabirds] Parkwood Road Birds

 

Lindsay

 

Good one, esp. like the spotted harrier.

 

David

 

On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 2:32 PM <> wrote:

The pics below were taken along Parkwood Road this morning.

 

Regards

 

Lindsay

 

 


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