> Date: Thursday, 9 October 1997 18:37
>
> I am planning a trip later this month to Round Hill Nature Reserve in
> central NSW. Has anyone been there recently who could give me some
current
> suggestions and hints, either over e-mail or send me your telephone
number
> and I'll give you a call. Thanks.
>
> Woody Kuehn
Dear Woody,
Below is a list of the birds a group of us saw at round Hill on 4-6th of
October. Three of our group saw Red-lored Whistler but we didn't. I saw
Laurie saw it in his earlier post. The entrance to the area we camped is
1.65km from the Mt. Hope - Euabalong Rd. on the western side of the Lake
Cargelligo Rd. The campsite itself is a further 1.9km from the road. You
will be surrounded as we were by Gilbert Whistlers, Chestnut Quail Thrush,
Shy Heathwrens, Splendid Wrens and White-fronted Honeyeaters.
Go to Whooey Tank as well for some good birds. From the intersection of
the Euabolong-Lake Cargelligo Rd, head towards Euabolong 2.1 km and the
will be a track crossroad. The north one will take you to the quarry
waterhole where we saw Black Honeyeater and many species coming in to
drink. At night here we saw Giant Bango Frog.(Limnodynastes Interioris)
On the track south we saw Spotted Bowerbird, Major Mitchells, Mulga Parrots
and many more.
If you come from Lake Cargelligo, you must stop at Chat Alley. Here you
will see Orange, Crimson and White-fronted. It is a group of low bushes
near a bridge that you would call typical White-winged Fairywren habitat.
On the
NRMA map, where you turn off the Lake Cargelligo-Euabolong Rd and go north
for 3 km and west for 2 km it is in this little east-west road at the
eastern end.
In Lake Cargelligo there is a sewer farm where we saw Baillon's Crake and
heard Spotless. We did not see any Blue-billed or Freckled Ducks but you
may.
Others did a circuit drive from the camp to Chat Alley, Lake Cargelligo,
Lake Brewster up to Mt. Hope and back to camp for one day.
Emu Dromaius novaehollandiae
Straw-necked Ibis Threskiornis spinicollis
Spotted Harrier Circus assimilis
Brown Goshawk Accipiter fasciatus
Collared Sparrowhawk Accipiter cirrocephalus
Brown Falcon Falco berigora
Australian Kestrel Falco cenchroides
Painted Buttonquail Turnix varia
Common Bronzewing Phaps chalcoptera
Crested Pigeon Geophaps lophotes
Peaceful Dove Geopelia placida
Bar-shouldered Dove Geopelia humeralis
Mallee Ringneck Barnardius barnardi
Bluebonnet Northiella haematogaster
Mulga Parrot Psephotus varius
Galah Eolophus roseicapillus
Pink Cockatoo Cacatua leadbeateri
Cockatiel Nymphicus hollandicus
Pallid Cuckoo Cuculus pallidus
Horsfield's Bronze-Cuckoo Chrysococcyx basalis
Rainbow Bee-eater Merops ornatus
Brown Treecreeper Climacteris picumnus
Spotted Bowerbird Chlamydera maculata
White-winged Fairywren Malurus leucopterus
Splendid Fairywren Malurus splendens
Variegated Fairywren Malurus lamberti
Spotted Pardalote (yellow-rumped) Pardalotus punctatus
Striated Pardalote Pardalotus striatus
Speckled Warbler Chthonicola sagittatus
Shy Hylacola Hylacola cautus
Inland Thornbill Acanthiza apicalis
Yellow-rumped Thornbill Acanthiza chrysorrhoa
Chestnut-rumped Thornbill Acanthiza uropygialis
Yellow Thornbill Acanthiza nana
Weebill Smicrornis brevirostris
Western Gerygone Gerygone fusca
Southern Whiteface Aphelocephala leucopsis
Black Honeyeater Certhionyx niger
White-eared Honeyeater Lichenostomus leucotis
Grey-fronted Honeyeater Lichenostomus plumulus
Yellow-plumed Honeyeater Lichenostomus ornatus
Brown-headed Honeyeater Melithreptus brevirostris
Little Friarbird Philemon citreogularis
Noisy Friarbird Philemon corniculatus
White-fronted Honeyeater Phylidonyris albifrons
Striped Honeyeater Plectorhyncha lanceolata
Noisy Miner Manorina melanocephala
Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater Acanthagenys rufogularis
Crimson Chat Epthianura tricolor
Orange Chat Epthianura aurifrons
White-fronted Chat Epthianura albifrons
Jacky-winter Microeca fascinans
Red-capped Robin Petroica goodenovii
Hooded Robin Melanodryas cucullata
Yellow Robin Eopsaltria australis
Southern Scrub-Robin Drymodes brunneopygia
Crested Bellbird Oreoica gutturalis
Gilbert's Whistler Pachycephala inornata
Rufous Whistler Pachycephala rufiventris
Grey Shrike-Thrush Colluricincla harmonica
Grey-crowned Babbler Pomatostomus temporalis
White-browed Babbler Pomatostomus superciliosus
Chestnut Quail-thrush Cinclosoma castanotus
White-winged Chough Corcorax melanorhamphos
Apostlebird Struthidea cinerea
Willie-wagtail Rhipidura leucophrys
Grey Fantail Rhipidura fuliginosa
Australian Raven Corvus coronoides
Little Raven Corvus mellori
White-browed Woodswallow Artamus superciliosus
Grey Butcherbird Cracticus torquatus
Pied Butcherbird Cracticus nigrogularis
Australasian Magpie Gymnorhina tibicen
Magpie-lark Grallina cyanoleuca
Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike Coracina novaehollandiae
White-winged Triller Lalage tricolor
Welcome Swallow Hirundo neoxena
Tree Martin Hirundo nigricans
Owlet-nightjar heard at night
79 SPECIES
Trevor Quested & Annie Young
Sydney, Australia
Phone +61 2 9955 6266
Fax + 61 2 9959 4005
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