There usually are several Great Crested Grebes at Walka Water Works which
is near Maitland NSW. It costs a few dollars to get in there.
Often there are also some on Grahamstown Dam which is situated between
Newcastle and Raymond Terrace. They're not always in the parts of the
water which are viewable from areas with public access, but you can be
lucky sometimes.
Alan Stuart
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| From: Andy Burton's Bush Tours <>
| To: EDWIN VELLA <>
| Cc:
| Subject: Re: [BIRDING-AUS] Great Crested Grebes
| Date: Wednesday, 15 March 2000 5:19
|
| >On the subject of Great Crested Grebes, has anybody seen them
| >recently around Sydney or Newcastle? I haven't come accross them for
| >awhile. Where are they all in NSW or Australia as a whole? What is
| >the largest ever occurrence for them in Australia?. I only live a
| >couple of km from Prospect Reservoir (about 40km west of Sydney),and
| >used to see them everytime I went there. There has been records of
| >about 100 GC Grebes at this Reservoir in the past but have not seen
| >them there for 3 years.
| >
| >Edwin
| >
|
| Hi Edwin,
|
| In 1999 I saw them at four sites west or north-west of Sydney. They
| were present in small numbers at Prospect in September when I last
| visited.
|
| Just west of Lithgow they are nearly always present at Lake Wallace,
| Wallerawang.
|
| One is sometimes present on the small colliery dam on the right of
| the Lithgow - Capertee Rd near Cullen Bullen.
|
| Rylstone Dam further to the north nearly always has this species and
| is a good area for Hoary-heads as well.
|
| Regards, Andy
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| Andy Burton's Bush Tours
|
| 21 Karabil Cr
| Baulkham Hills
| NSW 2153
| Australia
|
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