G'day all, as mentioned last week the SAOA held its month end outing on
Sunday 2/4/00 at Cox's Scrub, 27km north of Goolwa in SA. We had a
reasonable roll-up of 32 members who split up into about five groups and
spent a very pleasant morning birding the area centred on 35 / 20 / 08
south, 138 / 44 / 54 east, in at first slightly overcast conditions which
turned out quite warm and sunny by lunchtime. The bird call produced some
56 species as follows:
White-faced Heron 1
Black-shouldered Kite 1
Brown Goshawk 1
Collared Sparrowhawk 1
Wedge-tailed Eagle 1
Little Eagle 1
Nankeen Kestrel 1 ( good roll up of raptor species)
Common Bronzewing Probably about 20, flying around in groups of 5
or 6
Crested Pigeon 4
Galah just 1, can you believe that?
Rainbow Lorikeet up to 100
Musk Lorikeet up to 10
Purple-crowned Lorikeet 5
Crimson Rosella- Adelaides really - up to 100
Red-rumped Parrots 4
Elegant Parrot 3
Laughing Kookaburra 1
Superb Fairy-wren ca 20
Spotted Pardalote 3
Striated Pardalote 2
White-browed Scrubwren ca 15
Chestnut-rumped Hylacola 2
Brown Thornbill ca 10
Buff-rumped Thornbill 4
Yellow-rumped Thornbill 12
Striated Thornbill 6
Red Wattlebird ca20
Little Wattlebird - now Brush W here 5
Noisy Miner 2
Brown-headed Honeyeater ca 6
White-naped H/E 1
Crescent H/E 1
New Holland H/E hundreds
Eastern Spinebill 1
Hooded Robin 1
Varied Sitella 6
Crested Shrike-tit 2
Golden Whistler ca 10, mostly full coloured males
Grey Shrike-thrush 2
Magpie Lark 1
Grey Fantail ca 20, seems to be a current influx of these
Willie Wagtail ca 10
Dusky Woodswallow ca 6
Grey Butcherbird 2
Australian (white-backed) Magpie ca 6
Aust Raven 2
Little Raven ca 20
House Sparrow a few small flocks of six or so
Red-browed Finch ca 6
Beatiful Firetail ca 6
European Goldfinch 3
Tree Martin up to 100
Silvereye 1
Common Starling a few flocks of 20 or so
After lunch we moved on to Old Noarlunga to look for the Nankeen Night
Herons and found six adults roosting in the big pine trees, and two
juveniles, all mottled brown and white, on the riverbank.
Happy birding. Tony.
Tony Russell,
Adelaide, South Australia
phone : 08 8337 5959 , o/s 61 8 8337 5959
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