Hi all
Spent a very enjoyable 4 hours yesterday around Samsonvale Lake.
Started at the Cemetry and worked through to the Picnic Grounds, then out
through the grass round to the opp side of the lake and back again. Following
species recorded?
Great Crested Grebe 8
Little Pied Cormorant 3
Little Black Cormorant 1
Great Cormorant 1
Aust Darter 2
Aust Pelican 6
Intermediate Egret 2
Rufous Night Heron 1
White Ibis 1
Royal Spoonbill 2
Musk Duck 1
Black Swan 1
Black Duck 4
Hardhead 16
Black-shouldered Kite 1
Whistling Kite 2
Brown Quail 10
Dusky Moorhen 1
Common Coot 300
Masked Lapwing 4
Caspian Tern 1
Forest Pigeon 2
Bar-shouldered Dove 4
Yellow Tailed Black Cockatoo 8
Rainbow Lorikeet 5
Fan-tailed Cuckoo 1
Pheasant Coucal 1
Tawny Frogmouth 2
Laughing Kookaburra 2
Red Backed Wren 10
Variegated Wren 5
Striated Pardalote 2
White browed Scrub Wren 1
Brown Thornbill 1
White-throated Gerygone 1
Lewin's Honeyeater 4
Yellow-faced Honeyeater 1
Little Wattlebird 1
Eastern Yellow Robin 2
Rufous Whistler 5
Little Shrike Thrush 1
Grey Shrike Thrush 1
Eastern Whipbird 4
Welcome Swallow 3
Varied Triller 1
Black Faced Cuckoo-shrike 4
Golden Headed Cisticola 1
Tawny Grassbird 2
Willy Wagtail 3
Grey Fantail 8
Leaden Flycatcher 3
Silver eye 7
Green Figbird 6
Torresian crow 4
White-breasted Wood Swallow 3
Pied Butcherbird 2
Aust Magpie 5
Magpie Lark 2
Red Browed Finch 20
Double Barred Finch 3
Nothing new or exceptional, particularly.
Best bird ? Musk Duck.
Best view ? mmmm was it the Yellow-tailed Cockatoos screaming wildly in
that manic way they have or seeing a Whipbird whip? Hard to decide with
the Brown Quails in the background telling everyone they wanted to go wee
and the Pheasant Coucal burbling away up a tree like someone emptying a
bottle of water!
No new birds twitched, but some great experiences and ?personal, private?
views of birds doing what they do best!!
And, Yes, I do try to count every bird I see and keep records of every
trip. It?s interesting to watch the numbers fluctuate with the seasons or
times of day and compare them. Excel adds another aspect to birding!!
--
Colin Reid
So many birds, so little time......
--
http://www.fastmail.fm - Choose from over 50 domains or use your own
Birding-Aus is on the Web at
www.shc.melb.catholic.edu.au/home/birding/index.html
To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message
"unsubscribe birding-aus" (no quotes, no Subject line)
to
|
