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Hi Chatters,
While you were all working I was showing a visitor from the US,
section of the Blue Mtns NP and stayed the night at Goollooinboon Station
in the Capertee valley. The weather was overcast with a few spots of
rain. The birds were very busy all day.
Highlights were as follows:
Pierces Pass, Blue Mtns NP - 2 Pilotbirds at the picnic table
Mt. Wilson - 6 Gang Gangs, 1 Flame Robin
At Capertee set your trip meter to zero
Drive 13 kms - look and listen for bird flocks - we saw 6 Red-browed
Treecreepers and lots of Buff-rumped Thornbills here.
Drive a further 1.5 Kms approx. Look for for sale signs on
"Mountain Versteck" property. Walk slowly for the next 2 kms stopping
regularly and just watching the birds wizz about you. We saw many Swift
Parrots - say 80, Little Lorikeets, Striped, Black-chinned, Brown-headed,
Yellow-tufted, White-naped, White-eared,Fuscous, & White-plumed Honeyeaters.
Several Shrike-tits, a White-bellied Cuckoo-shrike, Diamond Firetails, lots of
Dusky Woodswallows, and Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoos. White Box is just
starting to blossom here.
At the left hand side of the entrance to Goollooinboon Station in the young
tree plantings we saw 4 species of finch including 2 small flocks of Plum-headed
Finch. Later, on the property in the timbered margins we saw a female
Red-capped Robin.
At the Glenolan Road bridge 10 minutes past Glen Alice on the Rylstone
Road, we found a pair of Barking Owls and saw 4 White-backed Swallows and
another four species of finch.
I think we saw nearly 100 species for the trip. All the best at your
attempts
Trevor
Trevor & Annie Quested
Sydney,
Australia
Phone
+61 2 9955 6266
Fax + 61 2 9959 4005
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