Hi birders
Firstly - thanks to several Birding-Aus members who heeded my plaintive cry
and set me straight on where to look for the Painted Snipe. I was there
about an hour ago, and saw the bird sitting a metre out from the veg in full
sunlight. It is a gorgeous creature, and offered good views by 10X
binoculars, and stunning full-frame by 40x scope. I found it easy to see
from the corner nearest the playground - and some kind soul who's name I
neglected to ask pointed it out. I had been about to look from further
away.
Birding generally good around there - list below.
(PS: Banyule for those who came in late is in Melbourne - just off Lower
Heidelberg Road on Banyule Road. The consensus seems to be that's an
immature female Painted Snipe.)
Black Swan Cygnus atratus
Australian Wood Duck Chenonetta jubata
Pacific Black Duck Anas superciliosa
Grey Teal Anas gracilis
Chestnut Teal Anas castanea
Hardhead Aythya australis
Australasian Grebe Tachybaptus novaehollandiae
Little Pied Cormorant Phalacrocorax melanoleucos
Little Black Cormorant Phalacrocorax sulcirostris
Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo
White-faced Heron Egretta novaehollandiae
Cattle Egret Ardea ibis
Australian White Ibis Threskiornis molucca
Australian Spotted Crake Porzana fluminea
Purple Swamphen Porphyrio porphyrio
Dusky Moorhen Gallinula tenebrosa
Eurasian Coot Fulica atra
Painted Snipe Rostratula benghalensis
Black-winged Stilt Himantopus himantopus
Black-fronted Dotterel Elseyornis melanops
Spotted Turtle-Dove Streptopelia chinensis
Galah Cacatua roseicapilla
Sulphur-crested Cockatoo Cacatua galerita
Rainbow Lorikeet Trichoglossus haematodus
Musk Lorikeet Glossopsitta concinna
Eastern Rosella Platycercus eximius
Red-rumped Parrot Psephotus haematonotus
Fan-tailed Cuckoo Cacomantis flabelliformis
Tawny Frogmouth Podargus strigoides
Superb Fairy-wren Malurus cyaneus
White-browed Scrubwren Sericornis frontalis
Brown Thornbill Acanthiza pusilla
Red Wattlebird Anthochaera carunculata
Little Wattlebird Anthochaera chrysoptera
Bell Miner Manorina melanophrys
Noisy Miner Manorina melanocephala
White-plumed Honeyeater Lichenostomus penicillatus
Eastern Yellow Robin Eopsaltria australis
Rufous Whistler Pachycephala rufiventris
Grey Shrike-thrush Colluricincla harmonica
Magpie-lark Grallina cyanoleuca
Grey Fantail Rhipidura fuliginosa
Willie Wagtail Rhipidura leucophrys
Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike Coracina novaehollandiae
Dusky Woodswallow Artamus cyanopterus
Grey Butcherbird Cracticus torquatus
Australian Magpie Gymnorhina tibicen
Little Raven Corvus mellori
House Sparrow Passer domesticus
Red-browed Finch Neochmia temporalis
European Greenfinch Carduelis chloris
European Goldfinch Carduelis carduelis
Mistletoebird Dicaeum hirundinaceum
Welcome Swallow Hirundo neoxena
Clamorous Reed-Warbler Acrocephalus stentoreus
Little Grassbird Megalurus gramineus
Common Blackbird Turdus merula
Common Starling Sturnus vulgaris
Common Myna Acridotheres tristis
59 species
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