You know how it never rains but it pours…
For most of my birding life I had managed to avoid seeing a Grey
Goshawk. I went to the right
places, but they just weren’t there.
Until in January this year at O’Reilly’s in southern Queensland I finally
ticked them. Then I saw a pair at
Gypsy Point Lodge in East Gippsland, Victoria and subsequently saw my first
white morph flying over the road near Bermagui on the NSW south coast. Well today I saw my 4th Grey
Goshawk in nearly that many months: a beautiful white bird at Langwarrin Flora
and Fauna Reserve outside Melbourne in Victoria. A mere 5 kilometres from my
house!
It was flying south near the McClelland Drive Carpark. At first I noticed a white bird, then I
thought it might be a Cattle Egret, but then realised it was a Grey
Goshawk. I was pretty happy with
that. Also at the FFR the following
birds:
Australian Magpie
Brown Thornbill
Common Blackbird
Eastern Rosella
Fan-tailed Cuckoo
Golden Whistler
Grey Butcherbird
Grey Fantail
Grey Shrike-thrush
Laughing Kookaburra
Little Raven
Magpielark
Masked Lapwing
New-holland Honeyeater
Rainbow Lorikeet
Red Wattlebird
Shining Bronze-cuckoo
Spotted Turtle-dove
Red-browed Finch
Spotted Pardalote
Superb Fairy-wren
Welcome Swallow
White-browed Scrubwren
White-eared Honeyeater
White-naped Honeyeater
European Goldfinch
Galah
Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
Brown Goshawk
Grey Goshawk
Australian Wood Duck
Australian
White Ibis
Stuart
