Hunter Bird Observers Club spent the June long weekend at White Box Camp
which is in the Goulburn River National Park, near Merriwa NSW. Sunday was
a damp day (to say the least!) but Saturday and Monday were great.
The bird list came to 82 species, with highlights including 6+ Southern
Whiteface (it's several years since these were last recorded in the Hunter
Region), a pair of Red-winged Parrot (a most unusual local record; thanks
to Trevor Quested for putting us on to them), and 15 types of honeyeater.
The overall list was:
Emu
Australian Wood Duck
Wedge-tailed Eagle
Australian Hobby
Nankeen Kestrel
Painted Button-quail
Masked Lapwing
Common Bronzewing
Crested Pigeon
Peaceful Dove
Bar-shouldered Dove
Glossy Black-Cockatoo
Galah
Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
Little Lorikeet
Australian King-Parrot
Red-winged Parrot
Crimson Rosella
Eastern Rosella
Red-rumped Parrot
Southern Boobook
Australian Owlet-nightjar
Laughing Kookaburra
Superb Lyrebird
White-throated Treecreeper
Brown Treecreeper
Superb Fairy-wren
Variegated Fairy-wren
Spotted Pardalote
Striated Pardalote
Speckled Warbler
Weebill
Brown Thornbill
Buff-rumped Thornbill
Yellow-rumped Thornbill
Yellow Thornbill
Striated Thornbill
Southern Whiteface
Red Wattlebird
Striped Honeyeater
Regent Honeyeater
Noisy Miner
Lewin's Honeyeater
Yellow-faced Honeyeater
White-eared Honeyeater
Yellow-tufted Honeyeater
Fuscous Honeyeater
White-plumed Honeyeater
Black-chinned Honeyeater
Brown-headed Honeyeater
White-naped Honeyeater
New Holland Honeyeater
Eastern Spinebill
Jacky Winter
Red-capped Robin
Rose Robin
Hooded Robin
Eastern Yellow Robin
White-browed Babbler
Eastern Whipbird
Spotted Quail-thrush
Varied Sitella
Crested Shrike-tit
Golden Whistler
Rufous Whistler
Grey Shrike-thrush
Restless Flycatcher
Magpie-lark
Willie Wagtail
Grey Butcherbird
Australian Magpie
Pied Currawong
White-winged Chough
Double-barred Finch
Red-browed Finch
Mistletoebird
Welcome Swallow
Silvereye
Alan Stuart
PS, mainly for David Geering - the Regent Honeyeater was a solitary bird,
unbanded, seen briefly in flowering ironbark (same tree as two years ago)
and a formal report will be sent through in due course.
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