Hello all,
I have recently (last Monday) returned from the subject area and thought it
might be of interest to hear of what can be seen .whilst on one of those
family visit trips when birding must be subject to social pressures.
Most of the sightings were made whilst at or travelling to the homes of
relatives or friends, with the exception of a mid-morning Sunday visit to
Wungong Gorge and a similar trip to Two Peoples Bay NR .
Many sightings were made from a motor vehicle. I will mention a few of the
stratagems which may be
usefully applied by the dedicated birdo caught in this situation:
1. Always be the driver of the vehicle.
2.Insist on a rest every couple of hours at some appropriate spot.
3 Never dine indoors during the hours of daylight, insist on picnic style
lunches or takeaways to be eaten al fresco..
4 When a treecreeper (Rufous) is seen to flit across in front of the
vehicle and land on the base of a tree, this can be truthfully described as
a " call of nature ".
5 Never pass-up a lookout or panoramic vista.
Judicious application of a few of these points can be of great help.
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The birds seen are listed in the order sighted from place to place :
FLOREAT PARK (Perth suburb) Singing Honeyeater, Spotted Dove,Laughing Dove,
Rainbow Lorikeet, Ringneck Parrot, Little Crow, Willy Wagtail, Aust.
Magpie, Aust Shelduck, Purple Swamphen. Black Duck, Aust. Pelican,
Yellowbilled Spoonbill, Welcome Swallow, Red Wattlebird, Silver Gull, Black
Swan.
St MARY'S CATHEDRAL (Perth city)-Little Crow, Rainbow Lorikeet, Singing
Honeyeater, Silver Gull, Feral Pigeon, Laughing Dove, Spotted Dove, Tree
Martin.
WUNGONG GORGE- Silvereye. Singing Honeyeater. Brown Honeyeater, New Holland
Honeyeater, Western Spinebill, Grey Fantail, Yellowrumped Thornbill,
Splendid Wren, Western Rosella, Whitenaped Honeyeater., Galah.
CANNING DAM- Pied cormorant, Brown Honeyeater.
FARM (20kms W. Manjimup) - Squaretailed Kite, Brown Goshawk, Grey Fantail,
Aust. Shelduck, Splendid Wren, Western Rosella, Whitebreasted Robin, Little
Crow, Kookaburra, Ringneck Parrot, Yellowrumped Thornbill, Singing
Honeyeater, A/Asian Grebe, Grey Teal, Black Swan, Bluebilled Duck, Wood
Duck, Inland Thornbill, Redacted Parrot, Southern Emuwren, WillyWagtail,
Western Spinebill, Whitetailed Black Cockatoo, Whiteface Heron, Kestrel,
Emu.
MT. BARKER- Rufous Treecreeper, Blackface Woodswallow, Western Rosella,
Peewee, Aust. Magpie, Little Crow, Red Wattlebird, Crested Shriketit, Grey
Shrikethrush, Yellow throated Miner Grey fantail.
ALBANY (Middleton Beach)-Silver gull, Whitebreasted Robin, Grey
Shrikethrush Inland Thornbill, New Holland Honeyeater, Musk Duck,
Bluebilled Duck, Pelican, Black Cormorant, Western Rosella, Red Wattlebird,
Welcome Swallow, Swamp Harrier, Little Crow, Aust. Magpie, Peewee,
Blackface Woodswallow,
TWO PEOPLE BAY NR- Inland Thornbill, Noisy Scrubbird !!!!!!, Redwinged
Fairywren, Western Rosella, Grey Currawong, Aust. Magpie, Sooty
Oystercatcher, Silver Gull, Little Crow, Silvereye, Red Wattlebird.
DENMARK-Kookaburra, Brush Bronzewing Pigeon, Whitetail Black Cockatoo,
Galah, Ringneck Parrot, Red Wattlebird, Grey Shrikethrush, Fantail Cuckoo,
Inland Thornbill, Aust. Magpie, Silvereye, Little Crow, Grey Fantail,
Redcapped Parrot, New Holland Honeyeater, Brown Honeyeater Osprey.
WALPOLE(Valley of the Giants)- New Holland Honeyeater Blackface
Cuckooshrike, Whitenaped Honeyeater, Grey Fantail, Ringnecked Parrot,
Western Rosella,
PEMBERTON- Ringnecked Parrot, Western Rosella, Red Wattlebird, S. Boobook,
Whitetailed Black Cockatoo, Redcapped Parrot, Western Gerygone, Brown
Honeyeater,
AUGUSTA(Cape Leeuwin)- Black Cormorant, Pelican, Caspian Tern, Silver Gull,
New Holland Honeyeater, Kestrel, Pacific Gull, Red Wattlebird, Grey
Currawong, Aust. Raven, Little Crow.
MARGARET RIVER - Whitetail Black Cockatoo, Western Gerygone, S. Boobook,
A/sian Grebe, Wood Duck, Grey Teal, Redcapped Parrot, Welcome Swallow,
Peewee, Silver Gull, Squaretail Kite, Crested Tern,
BUNBURY - Osprey, Purple Swamphen, Dusky Moorhen, Bluebilled Duck, Musk
Duck, Kestrel, Black Duck, Welcome Swallow, New Holland Honeyeater, Aust.
Raven, Spotted Dove, Clamorous Reed Warbler, Rainbow Beeeater, Pacific
Heron, Whitefaced Heron, Grey Fantail, Pelican.
MANDURAH- Silver Gull, New Holland Honeyeater, Splendid Wren, Silvereye,
Kestrel, Sooty Oystercatcher, Willy Wagtail, Aust. Magpie, Singing
Honeyeater, Grey Butcherbird, Feral pigeon.
The high point of my trip was surely Two Peoples Bay NR., seeing the Noisy
Scrubbird was great, but standing on the granite rocks at Little Beach
headland watching the transparent jade-green waves breaking onto a
snow-white beach against a clear blue sky and dark-green hills------well
that was something special. Just to add to the moment one of the large
rounded rocks about fifty metres offshore raised its head from the sea and
became an immense Right Whale with white patches of marine growths on its
strangely shaped head and a shiney black eye.
We felt guilty that we were the only ones to experience this magical time
and place.
However, I've still got about half a dozen good reasons for another visit.
Best wishes,
Reg.
Reg Clark
11 Carmen St
St Ives NSW 2075
Australia
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