In terms of Hooded Plover, a couple of other sites to consider:
1. A pair at Lorne - on the beach directly in front of the hardware store on
the main road (seen 5th Feb)
2. A pair at Kennett River beach (seen 12th Feb)
Both these take you into the otways - so you would need to consider other spots
along the way. Consider this route to incorporate the Otways (from Melbourne)
for example:
1. Werribee, Point Cook etc
2. Belmont Common - Geelong
3. Reedy Lake (Lake C, Geelong) / taking in a road stop at Point Henry
4. Torquay - Hooded Plover etc - also Spiny Checked HE (also Ocean Grove,
Edwards Point) and Singing HE.
5. Point Addis - Southern Emu Wren, Rufous BB, Tawny Crowned HE, Crescent HE
6. Angelsea - Angelsea River Wetland (again Southern Emu Wren)
7. Aireys Inlet Lighthouse and adjacent wetland (next to Great OR) - Rufous BB,
Snipe, etc.
8. Lorne - Hooded Plover, etc. and look out for Fork tailed Swift - flock seen
just near Lorne (5th Feb)
9. Onto Erskine Falls for forest birds, eg King Parrot, Satin Bowerbird,
Crescent HE etc, perhaps white phased Grey Goshawk,
or alternatively Bambra for above also.
10. head out of the Otways to Deans Marsh, Witchelsea, Brisbane Ranges, etc.
Ps - There's a good natural history book shop in Lorne (on one of the side
streets) - and he got a Gould print of Rufous BB!
Tim
Tim Dolby
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>>> "Paul Rose" <> 02/26/01 11:27AM >>>
Hello all,
Less than a week away from our mini twitchanthon and the plans are going well.
Belmont Common seems a certainty. Is Black-fronted Dotterel a resident
species there ? If not, does anyone know of prime locations for this species
and for Red-kneed Dotterel. I used to see both regularly at Werribee Lagoons
but have not seen either species for quite some time there. The only other
occasional locations I know of for Black-fronted Dotterel are at the Altona
Golf Course and at the lagoons underneath the West Gate Bridge (believe it ir
not !!!). There are no birds at either spot at the moment.
I also read with interest Lawrie's Hooded Plover record from Bancoora Beach,
Torquay. Are there any other reliable spots along the coast road before Lorne
?
This brings up one final and very important issue for us. Whether we need to
press on to Apollo Bay and Otways for some additional species or, considering
time may be better spent in Brisbane Ranges, just head as far west as Lorne and
then head up through Winchelsea. My concern is obviously re time and if we
were to press west to Otways would we run out of time and spend time driving
unnecessarily for the few species we may pick up.
Can someone provide some guidance on whether there are other locations en route
(i.e. what's Angahook-Lorne State Park like for birding and are there key
locations there to focus on ?).
Thinking mainly about robins, flycatchers, Gang Gangs, Satin Bowerbirds and
other temperate rainforest species that one would see in Otways.
Are there any bush birding locations en route from Lorne through Winchelsea,
Bannockburn to B. Ranges worth stopping at ???
Looking at Mary White Reserve just west of Anglesea for Emu-Wren and the
elusive Tawny-crowned Honeyeater (odd but true having seen none in Mallacoota -
do they exist ???) Is this a reliable site ?
Thank you all for your time and air space once again and I will stop bothering
you once it's all over and done with and out of my system.
Bloody exciting though !
Cheers for now and good birding,
Paul
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