I spent a few hours at Werribee today, making sure I could negotiate the
new road/gate regime there on Twitchathon weekend. Much to my relief,
access is still pretty straight forward - particularly if coming in from
the west end as a few Twitchathon teams are likely to do. I came in
through the gate to Lake Borrie near Kirk Point, and then navigated
around the lake, Paradise Road lagoons and Conservation Ponds, before
exiting on to 29 Mile Road and then the Geelong-Melbourne Road. Easy -
but don't try it without a key!!
The weather was appalling. Just as I arrived at the farm, the cool
change forecast for the afternoon arrived early. Gusty cold winds and
frequent heavy showers were the order of the day thereafter, until I
left about 1:45pm. Despite that, I racked up about 65 species in about
2 hours. The Brown Falcons I saw were unbanded, and the Banded Stilts I
saw were too deep in the water to tell (but there were 3 - 2 adults & 1
immature).
List follows as BirdInfo survey form:
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Fref: WERRIBE25 Obs: 7808 Dates: 10/10/2000 - / / Site:
WERRIBE
Survey: A5KM Time: 120 Area: 2500
Visited Kirk Point, Murtcaim, Lake Borrie, Little River mouth, Paradise
Road and Conservation Ponds. The weather was appalling - a cool change
arriving just as I did, with gusty winds and frequent heavy showers.
//ST=1100;ET=1345;NO=1;AC;BR;
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Country: 36.030 Locality: Western Treatment Complex, Werribee,
Victoria.
Habitat: C1/2: /
Lat: 37 59 59 S Long: 144 33 55 E A Accuracy: 500 Altitude: LR:
Lat/long is for Paradise Road lagoons.
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CODE--- Count Age S St Br T R Species
8034.0 S Straw-necked Ibis
8033.0 S Australian White Ibis
8277.0 S Australian Magpie
8255.0 S Little Raven
8404.0 S Willie Wagtail
8362.0 S Yellow-rumped Thornbill
8551.0 S Red-browed Finch
315.1 S Spotted Turtle-Dove
493.0 S Common Starling
8312.0 1 S Brown Songlark
Off Farm Road.
473.0 S Skylark
688.2 S House Sparrow
8121.0 S Pacific Gull
8122.1 S Silver Gull
2262.0 S Whiskered Tern
8059.0 S Whistling Kite
8286.0 S Magpie-lark
119.0 S Great Cormorant
8023.0 S Pied Cormorant
3004.0 S Little Pied Cormorant
3003.0 S Little Black Cormorant
74.1 S Little Tern
8250.0 S Welcome Swallow
8249.0 S Fairy Martin
2255.0 S Crested Tern
8007.0 S Hoary-headed Grebe
8461.1 S Australasian(Richard's) Pipit
3594.0 S Golden-headed Cisticola
8047.0 500E S Chestnut Teal
8100.0 S Masked Lapwing
8074.0 1 H Stubble Quail
3024.0 1000E S Hardhead
Lots of 'em; very twitchy, choosing to
flush & fly all the time which is odd. In most of the small lagoons
around Lake Borrie.
3022.1 40E S Pacific Black Duck
8038.0 100E S Black Swan
8022.0 S Australian Pelican
8053.0 4 S Blue-billed Duck
8310.0 S Little Grassbird
8248.0 S Tree Martin
8317.0 S Superb Fairy-wren
8050.0 600E S Pink-eared Duck
Only a few dozen on Lake Borrie; about
500-600 on Paradise Road lagoons, loafing on banks, some in water.
8046.1 5 S Grey Teal
220.0 400E S Eurasian Coot
3131.1 40E S White-headed Stilt
Mostly Paradise road.
8061.0 S Swamp Harrier
8049.0 100E S Australasian Shoveler
Mostly on Lake Borrie; a few in Paradise
Road lagoon.
8042.0 40E S Australian Shelduck
8387.0 S White-fronted Chat
8067.0 2 S Brown Falcon
Couldn't see bands on either of them
196.0 2 S Great Egret
8314.1 S Australian Reed-Warbler
252.0 2 S Black-tailed Godwit
Paradise Road.
250.0 12 S Bar-tailed Godwit
Paradise Road.
253.0 15E S Common Greenshank
244.0 10E S Curlew Sandpiper
242.2 40E S Red-necked Stint
238.0 20E S Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
8115.0 3 S Banded Stilt
2 adults, 1 juvenile (greyish wings, no
frontal band).
2193.0 2 S Purple Swamphen
3013.0 5 S Royal Spoonbill
8031.0 1 S White-faced Heron
8054.0 20E S Musk Duck
On Conservation Ponds and in the bay off
there.
8351.0 S Striated Fieldwren
526.1 S European Goldfinch
8055.1 S Black-shouldered Kite
21510.0 S Rabbit
21511.0 S Brown Hare
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