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Hi Chatters,
Lately around Sydney I have been seeing some good
birds.
In the Royal National Park I saw Beautiful
Firetails on two days in two places. The first was along the
first fire trail on the right on the Wattamolla Road. Here I saw 3
Chestnut-rumped Heathwrens and Southern Emu-wrens
feeding young and flushed a Stubble Quail. The
other sighting of Beautiful Firetails were 3 birds at the very first fire trail
to a Trig station on the right before the paying in booth as you enter the park
from the northern end.
The whole of the Royal NP is jumping at the
moment. I suggest anyone spend time at Wattle Forest and the start of Lady
Carrington Drive. I saw Superb Lyrebird 4 times easily. Just
along the Lady Carrington Drive going south past the second creek, some birders
saw Rock Warbler on the large rock outcrops. We saw Collared Sparrowhawk and
Brown Goshawk over the area.
Further afield, in the Capertee Valley on
Friday I saw Regent Honeyeater (adult with not bands on the
legs) and Black-chinned Honeyeaters in the flowering eucalypts
and mistletoes in the River Oaks at the Glenolan Bridge. This is on the
Glenolan Road off the Glen Alice to Rylstone Road. At the Glen Alice
cemetery, Plum-head Finches were on the roadside fence and
appeared to be flying into the centre of the long grass field. Perhaps
they are nesting in there. All the usual good birds like Diamond
Firetails and White-browed babblers are
about.
On the way back out of the valley we saw
Gang Gang Cockatoos feeding on the drupes of Narrow-leafed
Geebung (Persoonia linearis)
Good Birding
Trevor & Annie Quested
Sydney,
Australia
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