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Hi all,
Though probably over 50% of all birding-aus subscribers are Victorians,
whom I am not telling anything new I presume, I thought I'd share with you some
of the (for me) more interesting birds I saw during a recent trip through
Victoria. These include:
Blue-billed Ducks at Lake Wendouree, Ballarat (no little bitterns there was
some festival going on on the lake shore)
Bell Miners in Melbourne Royal
Botanical Gardens
Superb Lyrebirds in different locations around Mt Donna
Buang in Yarra Nat'l Park (beautiful area)
Spotless Crake in the pouring rain
in McLeod Morass near Bairnsdale (good wetland for rails etc. with boardwalks
& observation hide)
Pilotbird Mt Elizabeth State Forest (we stopped at
one of the hairpin bends on the road from Bruthen to Omeo in the forest and
found it, also Bell Miners here)
Yellow-tufted Honeyeater, Red-browed
Treecreeper, and Turquoise Parrot in Chiltern NP (Honeyeater picknick area and
surroundings)
Dipped Superb Parrot at Barmah Forest, they apparently leave
their breeding grounds in autumn.
On a related matter, when driving to Bairnsdale (from the West) in the
Gippsland area I noticed over a stretch of 10-20 km all roadside gum trees are
dead or dying. This dieback only seemed to affect one species that looked like
some kind of Redgum to me, and it must have been going on for quite a few years.
It affects young and old trees alike, and extends into roadside vegetatation on
side roads and in paddocks.
Does anyone know what's going on here? It looks pretty disastrous, and it
doesn't seem that anything is being done about it?!?
Cheers
Peter Waanders
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