Hi netters.
A delightful morning was had by 12 members of the SAOA on an official
mid-monthly outing on Saturday 14th Aug. Weather clear, temp 10 - 18 C.
We visited a little known area called Yankallila Gorge, private land some
5km south of Normanville in South Aust. The property itself wasn't expected
to produce too much by way of birds, but in three - four hours we were able
to atlas 45 species of mostly bush birds within 500m of 35 28 52s,132 17
35e as follows:
(Not all numbers were recorded as this is not an atlassing requirement.)
Aust Wood Duck ( 2)
Pacific Black Duck ( 2)
Little Pied Cormorant (1)
White-faced Heron ( 6)
Nankeen Kestrel (1)
Silver Gull (1)
Spotted Turtle-Dove (3)
Crested Pigeon ( 2)
Galah ( ca 20)
Sulphur-crested Cockatoo (4)
Rainbow Lorikeet ( 20 +)
Musk Lorikeet ( 2 )
Purple-crowned Lorikeet ( 4, at nesting hollows )
Adelaide Rosella ( 10 +, Subsp fleuriensis )
Fan-tailed Cuckoo (1)
Laughing Kookaburra ( 2)
Superb Fairy-wren ( 20 +)
Striated Pardalote ( 5 or 6)
White-browed Scrubwren (1)
Brown Thornbill ( up to 10 )
Yellow-rumped Thornbill ( up to 10 )
Striated Thornbill ( up to 10)
Red Wattlebird ( 4)
Yellow-faced Honeyeater ( 6)
White-plumed Honeyeater -nom penicillatus ( 6)
New Holland Honeyeater - nom ( up to 10 )
Eastern Spinebill ( 2)
Varied Sitella - pileata ( 6)
Golden Whistler - nom ( 1 f)
Rufous Whistler - nom ( 1 f)
Grey Shrike-thrush - nom ( 4)
Grey Fantail - alisteri ( 4 or 5)
Willie Wagtail ( 4)
Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike ( 2)
Grey Butcherbird ( 1)
Aust Magpie - hypoleuca ( 6)
Little Raven ( 5)
Red-browed Finch ( 6 , some carrying nesting material )
European Goldfinch (6)
Mistletoebird (1)
Welcome Swallow ( 10 +)
Tree Martin ( 10 +)
Sivereye ( 10)
Common Blackbird ( 3)
Common Starling ( 6)
This far exceeds the diversity experienced in this location on previous
visits.
Some other interesting recent occurrences:
Waders overwintering at Penrice on 4/8 included 9 Eastern Curlews, 2 Curlew
Sandpipers, 10 Bar-tailed Godwits, and thousands of Red-necked Stints in
association with hundreds of Red-capped Plovers.
There are a pair of Sharp-tailed Sandpipers at Greenfields Wetland ( per
John Cox) just north of Adelaide.
There are lots of Aust Shovelers in the Adelaide and Riverland areas at the
present time, most wetlands seem to have them.( also, See P. Waanders note
of 17/8 re Harts Lagoon at Waikerie)
Also on 4/8 there was a Barn Owl roosting in a bush on the LHS half way
between the barrage and the final boat ramp at Goolwa. On the same day a
Diamond Firetail was seen on the road outside Monarto CP.
Happy Birding. Tony.
Tony Russell,
Adelaide, South Australia
Overbearing austerity is always the companion of solitude.
Plato. ( Epistle to Dion)
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