Bendigo birding

[Lawrie Conole <>]

       David Parker wrote:

Visiting Millwood Dam in the Kamarooka, a well-known honeyeater spot, the area produced 6 species of honeyeater; Yellow-plumed, Yellow-tufted, Fuscous, White-eared, White-plumed, Brown-headed and also Red Wattlebird. Other birds included Grey Shrike-thrush and Superb Fairy-wren, Musk Lorikeet, Eastern Yellow Robin and Crested Bellbird.

 

Hi David

I too got to meander in the Bendigo area recently.  On Anzac Day I spent
a bit of time mountain biking and birding in a couple of spots north of Bendigo.
 Most of it in the Eucalyptus oil production area of mallee off Loeser's
Road in the Whipstick State Forest - which was uncharacteristically "unbirdy".
 Later in the day I spent a couple of hours at Millwood Dam in Kamarooka
State Park - it was much "birdier".  There is a tiny amount of blossom on
the Yellow Gums Eucalyptus leucoxylon  around the dam, and the Yellow-plumed
Honeyeaters were making a lot of noise whilst feeding there & chasing
off most other birds. I had some good looks at Purple-gaped Honeyeaters
in the mallee there too.  Other highlights included a few Shy Heathwrens,
Brush Bronzewings, a Gilbert's Whistler, and surprisingly (to me - Autumn
seems late) a flock of about 20 White-browed Woodswallows chirping away overhead.
 Also prominent, and a sign of Autumn, were the numerous squelching Brown
Toadlets Pseudophryne bibronii amongst the more numerous Common Eastern
Froglets Crinia signifera.


 MILLWOOD DAM, KAMAROOKA STATE PARK
&
EUCALYPTUS OIL MALLEE PLOTS, WHIPSTICK STATE FOREST (OFF LOESER'S RD)

BENDIGO AREA, CENTRAL VICTORIA.
 Painted Button-quail                 Turnix varia
 Brush Bronzewing                     Phaps elegans
 Galah                                Cacatua roseicapilla
 Musk Lorikeet                        Glossopsitta concinna
 Eastern Rosella                      Platycercus eximius
 Superb Fairy-wren                    Malurus cyaneus
 Variegated Fairy-wren                Malurus lamberti
 Spotted Pardalote                    Pardalotus punctatus  (both
ssp. punctatus & xanthopygus)
 Striated Pardalote                   Pardalotus striatus
 Shy Heathwren                        Hylacola cauta
 Weebill                              Smicrornis brevirostris
 Inland Thornbill                     Acanthiza apicalis
 Red Wattlebird                       Anthochaera carunculata
 White-eared Honeyeater               Lichenostomus leucotis
 Yellow-tufted Honeyeater             Lichenostomus melanops
 Purple-gaped Honeyeater              Lichenostomus cratitius
 Yellow-plumed Honeyeater             Lichenostomus ornatus
 White-plumed Honeyeater              Lichenostomus penicillatus
 Brown-headed Honeyeater              Melithreptus brevirostris
 Tawny-crowned Honeyeater             Phylidonyris melanops
 Red-capped Robin                     Petroica goodenovii
 Eastern Yellow Robin                 Eopsaltria australis
 White-browed Babbler                 Pomatostomus superciliosus
 Gilbert's Whistler                   Pachycephala inornata
 Golden Whistler                      Pachycephala pectoralis
 Grey Shrike-thrush                   Colluricincla harmonica
 Grey Fantail                         Rhipidura fuliginosa
 White-browed Woodswallow             Artamus superciliosus
 Dusky Woodswallow                    Artamus cyanopterus
 Grey Butcherbird                     Cracticus torquatus
 Grey Currawong                       Strepera versicolor
 Australian Raven                     Corvus coronoides
 White-winged Chough                  Corcorax melanorhamphos
 Welcome Swallow                      Hirundo neoxena
 Silvereye                            Zosterops lateralis
 Swamp Wallaby                        Wallabia bicolor
 Common Eastern Froglet               Crinia signifera
 Brown Toadlet                        Pseudophryne bibronii


    
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