FW: As well as Royal Spoonbills...

[Kim Farley via Canberrabirds <>]

And not just Spoonbills everywhere in good numbers... I was out at Bimbi State Forest near Grenfell in the last couple of days and Sue Beatty and I visited Lake Cargelligo a few weeks ago. I, and we, saw more White-necked Herons than I have seen for many years in the central west. Small dams had up to 5 White-necks at a time and I saw an Intermediate Egret near Bimbi which is very unusual. The ephemeral wetlands outside Lake Cargelligo had so many White-necks it was hard to count them. One of the Lake Cargelligo  wetlands had over 70 Great Crested Grebes on it - most of which were juveniles of various sizes. Lots of Crakes, all 3 species, and a party of over 20 Freckled Duck. A few Glossy Ibis too, 20 or so Magpie Geese, and gazillions of Grey Teal. I could go on....

Lets hope more species spill over to the ACT to join the Spoonbills and egrets we have enjoyed so far this year.

Kim

On Fri, 7 Apr. 2023, 10:04 am shorty via Canberrabirds, <> wrote:

Interesting that you saw adults, I went down this morning when the rain stopped for a short time and took a heap of photos of the 22 that were there and just looked through them all and no adult birds in my pics. It sounds like there are more than 22 around the area.

Shorty

On Fri, Apr 7, 2023 at 7:33 AM Geoffrey Dabb <> wrote:

Very unusual, must have been great breeding conditions inland, as suggested by all the ibis, too.  I wouldn’t try to outcount Shorty.  Among the dozen or so I got a close look at only a couple were not young birds.  Two on left below are young birds, one showing dark feather shafts.  In the bird on right the yellow patches above eyes are visible, HANZAB giving this as indication of non-breeding adult.

 

 

 

 

From: shorty <>
Sent: Thursday, April 6, 2023 2:45 PM
To: Geoffrey Dabb <>
Cc: Canberrabirds <>
Subject: Re: [Canberrabirds] FW: Royal Spoonbills

 

22 this morning.

 

Shorty

 

On Mon, Apr 3, 2023 at 10:23 AM Geoffrey Dabb <> wrote:

Once again Shorty showed he knows how to be in the right place at the right time.  It was such a calm, mildly sunlit Sunday afternoon I accepted his tip and went there for a few minutes.  At that time the spoonbills had decided to doze off, with heads of only a small number just visible above the reeds as sub-tenants of the ibis at Dead-Tree Roost (east).  Tenants at Dead-Tree Roost (west) included at least 17 Little Black Cormorants, with more of them on the water, at least 25 altogether. I didn’t progress much further but found a Fuscous Honeyeater (non-breeding condition) plunge-bathing in front of Cygnus.  A snap from Dairy Road of a small section of  the Forbidden Ponds showed, when subject to a later count, 24 pink-ears, 4 black swans, 6 grey teal, 23 shovelers,  3 silver gulls, 4 coot, 2 hardheads, 3 black duck, 7 unidentified waterbirds.

 

 

 

From: Canberrabirds <> On Behalf Of shorty via Canberrabirds
Sent: Sunday, April 2, 2023 12:22 PM
To: Canberra birds <>
Subject: [Canberrabirds] Royal Spoonbills

 

Hi all,

 

I stopped into Jerra Wetlands just to take a look at the Southern end of Kelly's and there were 12 juveniles and when I left there were 15. Highest count I have of them in Canberra.

 

Short

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