Hi all
I was working at Cooranbong (NSW Central Coast) this morning and was in a
dense patch of vegetation along the edge of the upper reaches of Dora Creek
when I heard bunch of birds all scolding at something. Never did find out
what got them going but in the one location there were:
Male & female Eastern Whipbird
Yellow-throated Scrubwren
White-browed Scrubwren
Black-faced Monarch
Rufous Fantail
Grey Fantail
Yellow Robin
Striated Thornbill
Superb Fairy-wren
Satin Bowerbird
Lewin's Honeyeater
Brown Cuckoo-Dove
Nearby I could hear a White's Thrush
And also a mystery bird. It was a robin by behaviour and size- had that
quick downward flicking of the wings that robins do. Trouble is its colour
was more akin to the monarch in that it had a charcoal & white face pattern
and a rufous chest and grey/brown back. Could have been a female Red-capped
or Flame Robin but it had quite a distinctive face pattern.
There was also what I took to be the Brown Gerygone but does this bird have
two small white patches on the upper primaries and a faint off-white face
stripe running from the beak well below the eye.
Cheers
Colin Driscoll
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Colin Driscoll
Environmental Biologist
PO Box 1047, Toronto, NSW, 2283
Australia
ph/fax +61 2 4959 8016
mob 0438 773029
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