Thanks Edwin for a wonderful report... I feel as green as those muskies,
with envy of course !!! Are you sure of the Grey Teal ? I have much
difficulty in separating them from the female Chestnuts. Do they
congregate separately or in mixed flocks ? That's a huge
count of Black Swan (and Teal) ! It must be an awesome birding site !
Alwyn Hunt
Victor Harbor,
South Australia.
EDWIN VELLA wrote:
> Yesterday, myself and David Koffel made a vist to Lake Wollumboola at
> Culburra (about 150 km south of Sydney). It is situated south-east of
> Nowra and just north of Jervis Bay. This lake has proved yesterday to
> be a good birding spot with atleast 10,000 Black Swans, over 5000 plus
> Grey and Chestnut Teal, hundreds of Pelicans and Cormorants. Some
> migratory waders were also present with over 100 Red-necked Stints
> (some were assuming breeding plumage and were frantically feeding for
> their migration up to the Artcic), 50 plus Bar-tailed Godwits, a
> Far-Eastern Curlew, Greenshank, Sharp-tailed and a very obliging
> Pectoral Sandpiper aswell as 5 Double-banded Plovers (all in
> non-breeding plumage and a juv. also seen). There were also good
> numbers of Terns including atleast 55 Caspian, 10 Little (some in
> breeding and others in non-breeding) and a White-winged Black-Tern (in
> full non-breeding plumage). Over 100 White-fronted Chats were feeding
> with Richards Pipits in the samphire about the north-eastern side of
> the lake. Where was that Buff-breasted Sandpiper ?. Atleast 3
> White-bellied Sea-eagles were seen (including a pair honking loudly
> from a dead Eucalypt in forest beside the lake) aswell as several
> Whistling Kites and a Peregrine Falcon. Many Musk Lorikeets were about
> the forest surrounding the lake. We spent the remaining 3 hours of
> daylight, birding in the moors and heath surrounding Porters Creek Dam
> with Southern Emuwrens and Beautiful Firetails seen, and heard distant
> calling of Tawny-crowned Honeyeaters. The narrow road to the dam goes
> pass some great Tall Wet Forest and stands of Sub-tropical Rainforest.
> On our way back down from the dam a large Echidna was seen crossing
> the road. Edwin
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