Hi birders
Yesterday morning I took a ramble through a couple of sections of
Woodlands Historic Park (adjacent to Melbourne's international airport).
About an hour in the top section from the Somers Road carpark around to
near the homestead; and about 1.25 hours in the Back Paddock below Mount
Gellibrand. Minor highlights included the regular 3-4 pairs of
Red-capped Robins in the Back Paddock, at least two pairs of Restless
Flycatchers in the Somers Road area (this species becoming rarer in
southern Victoria these days), a few wintering Mistletoebirds in the
Back Paddock; and my first record of Common Bronzewing for this reserve.
Damned if I could find either the Bell Miners or White-eared Honeyeaters
reported by others from this park. As I'm not deaf yet, I can only
presume I was birding in different spots.
List follows - numbers on left indicate whether recorded in one or both
areas.
1 Australian Wood Duck Chenonetta jubata
1 Whistling Kite Haliastur sphenurus
1 Brown Goshawk Accipiter fasciatus
1 Common Bronzewing Phaps chalcoptera
2 Galah Cacatua roseicapilla
2 Sulphur-crested Cockatoo Cacatua galerita
1 Crimson Rosella Platycercus elegans
2 Eastern Rosella Platycercus eximius
2 Red-rumped Parrot Psephotus haematonotus
2 Laughing Kookaburra Dacelo novaeguineae
2 Superb Fairy-wren Malurus cyaneus
1 Spotted Pardalote Pardalotus punctatus
2 Striated Pardalote Pardalotus striatus
2 Weebill Smicrornis brevirostris
1 Brown Thornbill Acanthiza pusilla
1 Yellow-rumped Thornbill Acanthiza chrysorrhoa
2 Yellow Thornbill Acanthiza nana
2 Striated Thornbill Acanthiza lineata
2 Red Wattlebird Anthochaera carunculata
1 Noisy Miner Manorina melanocephala
2 White-plumed Honeyeater Lichenostomus penicillatus
1 Red-capped Robin Petroica goodenovii
1 Flame Robin Petroica phoenicea
2 Grey Shrike-thrush Colluricincla harmonica
1 Restless Flycatcher Myiagra inquieta
1 Magpie-lark Grallina cyanoleuca
1 Grey Fantail Rhipidura albiscapa
2 Willie Wagtail Rhipidura leucophrys
2 Australian Magpie Gymnorhina tibicen
2 Little Raven Corvus mellori
1 House Sparrow Passer domesticus
2 Red-browed Finch Neochmia temporalis
1 Mistletoebird Dicaeum hirundinaceum
2 Welcome Swallow Hirundo neoxena
1 Silvereye Zosterops lateralis
2 Common Starling Sturnus vulgaris
1 Common Myna Acridotheres tristis
2 Short-beaked Echidna Tachyglossus aculeatus
1 Common Brushtail Possum Trichosurus vulpecula
2 Eastern Grey Kangaroo Macropus giganteus
2 Rabbit Oryctolagus cuniculus
2 Common Eastern Froglet Crinia signifera
42 species
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Lawrie Conole
Senior Ecologist
Ornithology & Terrestrial Ecology
Ecology Australia Pty. Ltd.
Flora and Fauna Consultants
88B Station Street
FAIRFIELD VIC 3078 Australia
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