G'day all
I spent an hour or so in the Cobra Killuc Wildlife Reserve yesterday. This is a
small reserve to the north of the Hamilton Highway near Hexham in south western
Victoria. I hadn't been here before and was expecting a bit of remnant plains
woodland. It is actually an old sugar gum plantation with regenerating wattles
and lots of plains wildflowers and grasses. Quite a few birds (see below)
including two male Scarlet Robins and I flushed a Southern Boobook from a roost
less than a metre above ground.
Do any of you know this reserve? I think it was used as a relocation site for
Eastern Barred Bandicoots.
One curious thing - there was no mistletoe on the Sugar Gums. Why?
Cheers
Steve
Birdlist:
Australian Shelduck
Pacific Black Duck
Horsfield's Bronze-Cuckoo
Southern Boobook
White-plumed Honeyeater
Red Wattlebird
Spotted Pardalote
Brown Thornbill
Yellow-rumped Thornbill
Striated Thornbill
Scarlet Robin
Grey Shrike-thrush
Little Raven
Australian Magpie
Willie Wagtail
Grey Fantail
Restless Flycatcher
Magpie-lark
Eurasian Blackbird
Welcome Swallow
Tree Martin
Silvereye
Eurasian Skylark
Red-browed Finch
European Goldfinch
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Steve Clark
Hamilton, Victoria, 3300
http://members.datafast.net.au/clarkja/sw_birds.htm
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