Birdline Victoria Update -24/9/01

[Stuart Cooney <>]

At 18:02 25/09/01 +1000, you wrote:
> Back from holidays with 6 new
> ticks, including a few easy ones...
>  
> ( and what it may be??)
>  
>

Actually it was 5, I'd already seen Swift Parrots on a Twitchathon, but this time I got a good long look, well relatively, rather than a 'thon look.

The other five are in no order:

Fuscous Honeyeater:     At Chiltern N.P. (thanks AS), Albury TAFE and every other bloody place I looked, not quite sure how I missed them in the past, maybe I thought that they were grotty White-plumed.

Little Lorikeet:        I am pretty sure that I have seen them before, but a good look at them during smoko at Albury TAFE, NSW

Turquoise Parrot:       The actual tick came on Sean Dooleys great block of Box-Ironbark in Chiltern VIC and then more, really close views at Cyanide Dam (Chiltern N.P.)

Olive-backed Oriole:    Despite looking at and hearing one on a bird weekend at Rotamah Island with Margaret Cameron, I didn't get enough to tick it, well Cyanide dam came through for me again and I saw quite a few

Finally

Western Gerygone:       Again, lots calling, but then becoming visible at the Rock Nature Reserve NSW at which I got around 40 species.

Also at Mt Lawson S.P. VIC I got

Eulamprus heatwolei	Yellow-bellied Water Skink
Hemiergis decresiensis	Three-toed Skink
Lamphropholis delicata	Delicate Skink
Lamphropholis guichenoti	Garden Skink
Pseudemoia platynota	Red-throated Skink
Cercartetus nanus	Eastern Pygmy-possum
Petauroides volans	Greater Glider
Nyctinomus australis	White-striped Mastiff Bat
Nyctophilus geoffroyi	Lesser Long-eared Bat
Nyctophilus gouldi	Gould's Long-eared Bat
Vespaduelis darlingtoni	Large Forest Bat
Vespaduelis regulus	Southern Forest Bat
Vespaduelis vulturenus	Little Forest Bat
Rattus fuscipes	Bush Rat

to add to other lists.

Regards,

Stuart