Plenty of migrants turning up right now with highlights in New South Wales
over the last week as follows:
BRAHMINY KITE 2 Wandabyne, Central Coast 2/9
BROWN QUAIL 5 Eastlakes, Sydney 26/9, plenty still at Windsor
Turf farms 21/9
STUBBLE QUAIL several Windsor turf farms 21/9
KING QUAIL several Windsor turf farms 21/9
PAINTED BUTON-QUAIL 3 Glen Alice church (Capertee Valley) 16/9
LEWIN'S RAIL 1 - 2 birds still giving amazing views below the
giraffes at Taronga Zoo all week and at all times of the
day. These are wild birds!
BAILLON'S CRAKE 1 Blackbutt Woods, Shellharbour 14/9, 1 Windsor Turf
Farms 21/9 - possible drought movements
BANDED LAPWING 10 Windsor turf farms 21/9
GREAT KNOT 3 still present Penrhyn Road, Botany 16/9
RED KNOT 6 Penrhyn Road, Botany 16/9
GLOSSY BLACK COCKATOO 2 Jerusalem Bay, Ku-ring Gai Nat Park 16/9
TURQUOISE PARROT 3 Marnes Creek, Yarramundi (Sydney) 17/9
SWIFT PARROT 1 Woodbyne, Mulgoa 8/9 - 13/9
BARN OWL 3 Cornwallis Road, Windsor 21/9
CHANNEL-BILLED CUCKOO 1 Mosman Bay, Sydney 8/9 - 14/9 - early record
and 1 Berkeley Vale, Central Coast 17/9, 1 Middle Cove
20/9 and 1 Drummoyne 21/9 (both Sydney)
KOEL 1 Mosman Bay, Sydney 10/9 - another early bird and in
the Central Coast: 1 Spencer 17/9 and 1 Wyoming 18/9
SACRED KINGFISHER 2 Umina, Central coast 14/9 and 1 Mangrove Mountain 17/9
RAINBOW BEE-EATER 2 Yarramundi, Sydney 17/9 and several Capertee Valley
16/9
SATIN FLYCATCHER 1 male Mangrove Mountain, Central Coast 16/9 - early
record
LEADEN FLYCATCHER 1 Woodbyne, Mulgoa 14/9 - first return
BLACK-FACED MONARCH 1 Mangrove Mountain 16/9 - first return
LITTLE CUCKOO-SHRIKE 1 Castlereagh S.F., Windsor 20/9
WHITE-WINGED TRILLER 1 Capertee Valley 16/9 - first return
LITTLE FRIARBIRD 1 Capertee Valley 16/9
REGENT HONEYEATER 3 plus 1 nest Capertee Valley 16/9
Chris Gladwin
Sydney, Australia
BIRDLINE NSW (02) 9290 1778 - sponsored by Birds Australia, NSW Field
Ornithologists Club and Cumberland Bird Observers Club
Please reply direct as a I am unable to see "Birding-Aus"
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