Susan Myers, Stuart Dashper & I spent a very enjoyable two nights & days
at a favourite campsite in the Angahook-Lorne State Park (Otway Ranges,
SW Victoria) over the weekend; a very rewarding place for naturalists.
Though our target species, the Masked Owl, eluded us, we were partly
compensated by a pair of Powerful Owls calling from within the Masked
Owl territory. The Mountain Grey Gums are flowering at the moment,
attracting lots of honeyeaters and a few lorikeets. The place is alive
with Yellow-bellied Gliders at night, and we saw several Dusky
Antechinus out foraging during the day. Other highlights included Olive
Whistler, Rufous Bristlebird, Bassian Thrush, etc. One interesting
observation was that of a diminutive Collared Sparrowhawk (one of a
probable pair) valiantly rounding up a flock of 12 Gang-Gang Cockatoos,
and seeing them off out of the area. A complete list follows, in
BirdInfo format.
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Lawrie Conole
Geelong, Victoria, Australia
http://www.vicnet.net.au/~raou/painted.html
http://www.xnet.com/~ugeiser/Birds/TripReports/JavaBali96.html
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Fref: SHARP3 Obs: LEC Dates: 23 5 1997 - 25 5 1997 Site: SHARP
Comment: Survey: *AS Time: Area:
500
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Country: 36.030 Locality: Sharp's Road, Angahook-Lorne State Park,
Vic.
Habitat: Tall forest Comment: Tall, mesic open-forest C1/2:
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Lat: 38 33 0 S Long: 143 55 45 E Accuracy: 1" Altitude: 210 m LR:
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Code--- Count St Br T R Comment------------------
Species----------------
21175.0 1 spotlit, near gate Long-nosed Potoroo
21242.0 Swamp Wallaby
21129.0 Common Ringtail Possum
21136.0 15E Yellow-bellied Glider
21033.0 3 foraging, fern gullies, d Dusky Antechinus
8221.0 2 m & f, in Sheoak gully Powerful Owl
8223.1 1 in Sheoak gully Southern Boobook
8227.0 2 calling day & night Australian
Owlet-nightjar
8337.0 14 c. 7 prs b/t gate & camp Rufous Bristlebird
8433.0 Olive Whistler
3680.0 Golden Whistler
8444.0 Grey Shrike-thrush
8542.0 6E calling Mistletoebird
8547.0 Striated Pardalote
8488.0 White-eared Honeyeater
8483.0 in flocks with Wh-naped Yellow-faced
Honeyeater
8497.0 see above White-naped Honeyeater
8496.0 lots in fl Grey Gum Brown-headed
Honeyeater
8511.0 very abundant New Holland Honeyeater
8510.0 very abundant Crescent Honeyeater
8523.0 abundant Eastern Spinebill
8533.0 small numbers Red Wattlebird
8532.0 small numbers Brush(Little)
Wattlebird
8359.0 Brown Thornbill
8366.0 Striated Thornbill
8344.0 White-browed Scrubwren
8317.0 Superb Fairy-wren
8448.1 2 1 nr camp, 1 nr Canyon Bassian Thrush
761.1 1 nr Canyon Common Blackbird
8426.0 Eastern Yellow Robin
8302.0 White-throated
Treecreeper
8159.0 12 flock near camp most of t Gang-gang Cockatoo
8156.0 Yellow-tailed
Black-Cockatoo
8162.0 Sulphur-crested
Cockatoo
8181.0 Crimson Rosella
8172.0 Australian King-Parrot
8151.0 1 small flock Musk Lorikeet
8153.0 20E 2 flocks in fl Grey Gums Purple-crowned
Lorikeet
8406.0 Grey Fantail
8250.0 a few o'head Welcome Swallow
8248.0 abundant o'head Tree Martin
8235.0 Laughing Kookaburra
8538.0 Silvereye
8278.0 Pied Currawong
8280.0 Grey Currawong
8254.0 Forest Raven
8063.0 2 ad female, juv male, nest Collared Sparrowhawk
21162.0 I scats Koala
8128.0 10E Brush Bronzewing
8228.0 1 near gate Tawny Frogmouth
33033.0 Eastern Smooth Frog
33182.0 Brown Treefrog
21536.0 1 Cat
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